Mr. and Mrs. Discobbolos, Part I for Voice, Violin, and Piano

Edward Lear, of The Owl and the Pussycat fame, brought his keenly observed nonsense to this tale of a couple who climb a wall for the view, and only then figure out that they might not be able to get down again. Frazin’s setting for tenor, violin and piano, in three stanzas, contrasts a naïve, gently rocking and vaguely bucolic lightly scored section (opening with a charming mandolin-style plucking of the violin) against dense and anguished passages at the points where Mrs. D.’s acrophobic anxieties surface. The pattern cleverly reverses in the last stanza, when Mr. D. takes up the cry but then beatifically accepts and makes the best of their stranded fate. This was good old-fashioned text setting that tells its story well. Kelley once again put it across with drama and charm, and Stepner and Berman supported with grace.
— Boston Musical Intelligencer