'Juggernaut' creates a buzz at Clay By David Williams For Saturday Gazette-Mail November 13, 2004 Steve Cohen's nifty orchestral composition "Juggernaut" started with a nearly inaudible rumble in the bass drum and piano before the double basses stirred the murk to shape and drive it. It was lean-in-and-pay-attention stuff, which Cohen backed up with a 10-minute composition full of brilliant details - swirling textures, leaping rhythms, neat intertwining melodies and forceful, novel combinations of instrumental colors. The piece, in its premier performance by the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra on Friday night at the Clay Center, is this year's winner of the Museum in the Community/WVSO Composer's Award. It created quite a buzz in the audience. When I asked around the balcony at intermission, I did not find anyone who did not enjoy the piece (and several said they were thrilled by it). The middle section has a hammered chord that keeps interrupting, to its detriment, some beguiling work in the woodwinds and percussion, and the first climax sounds a tad routine. But that is small change in a fascinating piece that gripped one's attention effortlessly and held it...