From a review of
"Sages of Chelm"
This is remarkably beautiful music! The orchestrations are superb,
the music elegantly crafted. The Sages of Chelm is based on Hebrew
and Yiddish folklore and melodies, presented in a late Romantic
idiom --- and, amazingly enough, this metamorphosis not only works
but comes alive with great vitality! The listener need not even
know the meaning of the Yiddish movement titles or recognize the
melodies: this beautiful work stands on its own as "abstract" music.
Terry Winter Owens, composer
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From a review of
"Kabala"
This is an amazing and spellbinding--at times frightening in its
primordial directness, at times utterly disarming in its magical
grace and wit--celebration of Jewish rites created by a highly
gifted composer who is profoundly in touch with his roots, and
who has the compositional wherewithal to universalize them in
often surprising and always resourceful ways.
Fanfare Magazine: William Zagorski
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