BY RUSSELL PLATT [Newsday, 25 January 2006]
To his many fans, Osvaldo Golijov, the 45-year-old Argentine-Israeli-American composer, is a Schoenberg for the new millennium: at once a conservative carrier of tradition and a radical reformer who invented a new type of composition. He is also a man who enjoys entertaining an audience, as his one-act opera “Ainadamar” (“Fountain of Tears”), which began its three-performance run at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater on Sunday afternoon, proved once more.