The performance of Liminal at the 2023 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, CA was reviewed by Rebecca Wishnia in the San Francisco Classical Voice. Regarding Liminal, Wishnia wrote the following:

I’d like to hear more from two additional first-timers at Cabrillo: Gabriela Ortiz and Dan Caputo, each of whom contributed sprawling, dreamlike works.

Liminal, by the Los Angeles-based Caputo, sumptuously depicts insomnia. The orchestra wheezes. Solos flash, like involuntary thoughts, against the effortful equanimity of opaque chords. Then, a blink, and we’re asleep. Gravity no longer a constraint, the harmonies climb, and the melodies fill with Fauvist color. Like all good dreams, it slips away too soon.