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I'll have to agree with Daniel that the four staves are rather excessive.
The opening page could easily, and more importantly - CLEARLY - have been notated on two staves. The four stave thing is, in this case, quite unnecessary, and smacks of rachmaninovian pretention. The 3-staff sections were fine. The final page could easily have been condensed to two staves as well.
Sadly, most composition teachers know very little about notation standards and acceptable notation procedure.
Remember that the ONLY important factor in deciding how something will be notated is CLARITY. Not how "cool" it looks, nor that you CAN do it that way. And in this case, clarity dictates fewer staves, not more.
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"Those that know, do;
Those that understand, teach."
-Aristotle-
"toute audace engendrée par l'ignorance cesse d'être une audace et devient une maladresse"
-Debussy-
In musical criticism, when issues of craft and technical consideration are set aside, what remains is more subjective. However, until technical issues are dealt with, the subjective portion bears considerably less weight.
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