Private, Lyrical Worlds In Contemporary Works

Alex Ross- The New York Times

May 1, 1996

 

     "...But it was a piece by Margaret Brouwer, a composer based in Virginia who will soon join the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music, that caught my ear.  Her "Skyriding," for flute, violin, cello and piano, made no obvious concessions toward styles of the day and inhabited its own peculiarly bewitching harmonic world.

     ...Despite its complexity, this language was always lucid and transparent; strong, fluid rhythms gave it life.  The first movement, in particular, achieved a marvelous, mercurial lyric flow."