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Portrait Concert of Austin Piano Music – New York City
New York City; Jerome Reed, pianist; October, 2003 Fred Patella, New Music Connoisseur Vol. II, Nos. 3 &4 (2003) The Puzzle Preludes (1995), a playful set for the piano featuring quotes and impressions of famous and recognizable piano music including motifs from Chopin and Beethoven sonatas…are the first hint of the loving tribute Austin’s music exudes not only to
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Concert of Rilke Settings for Voice – Nürnberg, Germany
Nürnberger Zeitung, February 25, 2003 Hans Von Draminski (translated) “…into almost Arcadian fields, Renate Kaschmieder and Florian Kaplick abducted their listeners with Austin’s Rilke Lieder, which the composer wrote at the age of nineteen….”
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Review of an all-Austin concert – Goucher College
November 8, 2004 “…distinguished composer Elizabeth R. Austin returned to her alma mater and…attracted an almost full house.” “Austin described her intriguing approach to composition as ‘pantonality, using freely shifting tonal centers, the triadic gestures of eighteenth-century harmonic usage, minus their function. The densities and balance between thematic passages and bridges produce contrasting harmonic idioms
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Excerpts from Review in Speyerer Morgenpost
Michael Flaksman, cello and Ulrich Urban, piano: December 13, 2004 “…a phenomenal enhancement of this concert was Circling (for cello & piano) by Elizabeth Austin, who lives mainly in The United States but who is also at home in Mannheim. The music describes four stages in a relationship between two people, who are symbolically portrayed by the performers. Short sparkling
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Excerpts from CD review of “A Falcon Fantasy” (guitar and piano)
by Michael Slayton, International Alliance for Women in Music Journal, Winter, 2005 …signature Austin sonorities…beautifully and carefully crafted, enchanting, if austere…musical journey which is unquestionably rewarding..”
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Piano Concert by Ulrich Urban – Leipzig, Germany
by Leipziger Volkszeitung, July 6, 2007 (translated) “….her “Puzzle Preludes” combine quotes from the classical period with her own variations…through this, one actually dines on the spirit of the famous masters of the past, which is woven seamlessly into the overall concept of these pieces…the grateful public offered lively applause for Urban’s brilliant interpretation…
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Piano Concert by Ulrich Urban – National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
by Marsha Dubrow, D.C. Travel Examiner, March 2008 The National Gallery of Art’s concert, featuring a world premiere based on a Mendelssohn work, celebrated the birthday of Felix Mendelssohn. But he was a bit upstaged at his own birthday concert February 1 by the world premiere of Elizabeth R. Austin’s “Puzzle Prelude Vivace-Adagio (Mendelssohn)” which refers to his “Presto”, op. 16, no.
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Excerpts from CD review of Symphony No. 2 (“Lighthouse”)
by Peter Burwasser, Fanfare, July/August, 2008 “…Elizabeth R. Austin, a Peabody-educated Baltimore native, is the president of Connecticut Composers, Inc. Her three-movement symphony manages the remarkable feat of being strikingly original at the same time that it is jam-packed with musical quotations. It is a little surprising that she does not give a nod, either
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