Flight was performed in London as part of the Royal Acadamy's "American Music Festival" in 1990. Nicholas Williams wrote in The Independent of Mar. 17, 1990:
"...Lawrence Moss's two-movement Flight, sustaining the illusion of its title by means of deftly woven contrapuntal threads leading into a substantial set of variations."
In a review of American Camerata's LP (AmCam-10301) Egil Gundersen of BrassBulletin (March, 1987, Switzerland) writes:
"Das Annapolis Brass Quintet liefert uns seine Super-Affuehrung von Moss' fantastischem Flight, einer Komposition, die gut zu seiner Brillanz und Virtuositaet passt."
Stuart Low wrote in the Baltimore Sun, April 17, 1980, under "Quintet takes off in Moss's Flight:
"The Annapolis Brass Quintet premiered a new composition, Flight , by University of Maryland professor Lawrence Moss at its second concert this month at Anne Arundel Community College.
"Dr. Moss is best known locally as a composer of small-scale chamber compositions, often of literary inspiration: Ariel, The Brute (a comic opera based on Anton Chekhov's play), Remembrances for eight performers. Flight is his second brass quintet and was composed as a gift to the Annapolis Brass Quintet after they commissioned and recorded a larger work for brass quintet and chamber orchestra (Symphonies).
"Despite its extreme brevity - less than five minutes - it is almost kaleidoscopic in its range of effects. The sound is kept transparent largely through familiar contemporary techniques - staccato tonguing, wide syncopated leaps, deft placement of rests and held notes - although a few novel demands are made on the trombones.
"The image of flight is conveyed initially by rising chromatic runs, later by "falsetto" muted trombone slides. The opening Leggiero was constantly spinning off on new rhythmic axes, while the second section's variations introduced unusual henpecked staccato notes and "murmuring" effects..."
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