Classical music critic David Patrick Stearns raved about Sunday’s performance at the Kimmel Center by Temple University Orchestra and Choirs. Stearns called the world premiere of Reflections on the Mississippi by the Philadelphia Orchestra's Carol Jantsch and the Temple University Symphony Orchestra “a charmer.” As well, “Samuel Barber's Prayers of Kierkegaard, led by Paul Rardin, showed off the Temple University Combined Choirs' imposing sound and amazingly clear diction,” Dobrin wrote.