Fantastic. I loved your musings on color.
"Andrea La Rose: i blame you for jug and two musical saws: The piece following was easily the worst of the entire evening. Just upon hearing the instrumentation you get the idea of what you are in for: i blame you for jug and two musical saws. This is the kind of thing that composers will get in their head; "wouldn’t it be funny if" and if they know better will never actually attempt. Andrea La Rose does not know better. Plodding, annoying, with absolutely no sense of development or even interesting color. Just a jug blown into rhythmically (like a flute, not even like a proper jug) and two saws being bowed incessantly for what may have only been a few minutes, but felt like half the program. Thank goodness it ended, and I hope for the good of humanity it is never played again."
– Barry Seroff
yay andrea, you're finally a computer nerd. very nice page (the graphic made me laugh).
And, may I say, the likeness between the image on your web page and you, well...!!!!!!
“Oh, it’s Punk Classical,” flutist Andrea LaRose informed me. Sure – yet another group polluting the hallowed academy halls with the whims and whiles of the devil’s music and expecting me to get excited. A quick listen to her composition “Breakbeat” demonstrated to me that I was out of Naked City territory and into the 21st century. Like the vocalized drum solo on National Health’s Of Queues and Cures, it delivers what the title purports, this time rendered by solo flute. It’s a kind of theme and variation with the stereotypical breaks immediately recognizable in a post-Varese tonal context, complete with huge pitch leaps, flutter-tonguing and a few Roland Kirk vocalizations thrown in for good measure, not to mention that it bristles with energy.
– Mark Medwin
loving it...
"atmospheric music" — The New York Times
"haunting music" — TimeOut New York
Cute Web site - and the picture looks just like you!
I just checked out the website. Very amusing. I do have to say that I found the page about color perversely amusing. I don't know which is worse. Your enjoyment in writing it or my enjoyment in reading it.
nice web site-I especially enjoyed the folding picture of uncle Arnie-
Your website really kicks! I haven't seen colors like that since 1967! ? Larry Bell
"significant and interesting things to be heard" — steve smith
Prolific and an expert performer, she's bouncing among a dozen good ideas, and wherever she lands will doubtless cause merriment, consternation, insight, and possibly the End of Civilization As We Know It. — Kyle Gann