The Times praised a performance by iPalpiti, the international ensemble of young musicians (including some Temple students) led by conductor and renowned violin pedagogue Eduard Schmieder, a professor at Temple's Boyer College of Music and Dance. "Schmieder is an authoritative conductor," wrote the reviewer. "A tall and serious Russian of the old school, he goes in for intense expression and dug-in string sonorities that reverberated through Disney with so much power that I wondered for a moment whether the loudspeakers on stage were plugged in. They weren’t; they were left over from a Lyle Lovett concert in [L.A.'s Walt Disney Concert Hall] the night before."