To appreciate Petty's Gainesville, you can visit the street he grew up on, covered by canopies of live oaks that were just saplings when Petty was born in the early'50s . ( The trees " have grown up with the houses, " says Albertine McDonald, a next-door neighbor to the Petty family . ) Or you can visit the instrument shop, Lipham Music Co ., where Petty worked part time ( " He was a damn good salesman.
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However, James McQuillen of " The Oregonian " gave the composition more favorable marks, opining, " Densely orchestrated, loud and fast, it sounded something like the demolition of a musical instrument shop over seven minutes through the precise deployment of explosive charges . " Allan Kozinn of " The New York Times " later called " Phaethon " " a spectacularly noisy, colorful evocation of the Greek myth " and wrote, " continuously reconfigured textures, dynamics and timbres wove spells so magical that debates about harmonic language were beside the point ."
