"...connects to the satiric...with skill, scattering bright shards of sound across a taut structure..." |
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"...dissonant vocabulary of sounds..." |
--Philadelphia Inquirer In Honor of Andy Warhol, Pop Go the Composers September 16, 2000 |
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"...brawling yet taut energy...'Rite of Spring' meets Metallica..." |
--Los Angeles Times EAR Unit's Toughness and Tranquility January 10, 2001 |
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"...a jolly picture with much wood knocking and tongue clicking..." |
--San Diego Village News Noise Revs Up for Series at Library February 21, 2001 |
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"..a crackling, witty piece...with colors from sensuous to raspy..." |
--Albuquerque Journal California EAR Unit Ends Concert Series With Rhythmic Power |
June 25, 2001 |
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"...Chase has a fine ear for combinations of sounds. Flamboyant music...intriguing counterpoint..." |
--Los Angeles Times Spirits of the Electronic World |
May 03, 2002 |
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"...[an] intimate piece of gently undulating variations." |
--Report on the 8th World Harp Congress Held in Geneva, July21-28, 2002. |
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"The best piece...was Nick Chase's OPUS..." |
--L.A. Weekly A Lot of NIght Music: When Fa Joins Mi... |
May 24, 2002 |
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"...Nicholas Chase produced a kind of music...monkeying around with the turntables...to create a distorted collage of some...great moments." |
--L.A. Weekly A Lot of NIght Music: Fizzle, Puzzle, Dazzle |
April 25, 2003 |
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"...flamboyant, avant-garde...The stage glittered..." |
--Los Angeles Times Thinking Big in Short Bursts- The Adventuresome Long Beach Opera Offers several Tastes of Something Different |
June 10, 2003 |
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"...pretentiously avant-garde...I liked it anyway." |
--San Diego Magazine Darius Milhaud's Trois Operas Minutes Highlight Unique Long Beach Opera Offering |
June 17, 2003 |
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"Nicholas Frances Chase's 'Twenty-Two'...was seamless, powerful...spectacular..." |
-Whittier Press-Telegram Operatic smorgasbord a tasty treat: 'Seven Small Operas' has something for everyone |
June 10, 2003 |
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"Nicholas Frances Chase's interweaving of words by Ann Haroun...the human brain at its most imaginative." |
-Los Angeles Weekly A Lot of Night Music 'Thirteen Operas in Twelve Days" |
June, 2003 |
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"Chase's Rainbow Around the Sun finds a brilliant balance of... percussive pluck and...lyrical bowing..." |
-The Strad Magazine Concert Reviews |
July 2003 issue |
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"...atonality and pounding piano, a kamikaze attack on the ears." |
-Beverly Hills Outlook Concert Reviews |
June 2003 |
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"...[an] appealing...assortment of plucks, slides, scrapes and even vocalizations..." |
-American Record Guide Concert Review |
July-August 2003 |