For all of you who are new to the works of Harry Clark, we thought it appropriate to provide a sampling of reactions to these works. We hope you will find them interesting.
Headline: CONCERT A FINE TRIBUTE TO COMPOSER BURLEIGH
Lou Gossett spun a great story and pianist Sanda Schuldmann played with an intensity
that sucked you in and made you forget there was anyone else on the stage.
AZ DAILY STAR
Headline: “RAISIN CANE”: EXQUISITE EDUTAINMENT AT THE APOLLO
Jasmine Guy brought it all together magnificently, wowing the sold out house.
THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS
Lively, informative, motivating and entertaining, Raisin’ Cane melded literature, projected images, spontaneous movement
and commentary looking back to the explosion of black American creativity and pride known as the Harlem Renaissance.
DAYTON DAILY NEWS
The performances on this recording (Song Without Words) were excellent and I was totally convinced by Mr. Bikel as Paul Mendelssohn.
WILLIAM STERLING (via email to Amazon.com/5 star United Kingdom)
Thank you for your beautiful program on Dame Ethel Smyth (A Stopped Clock). I heard many raves about the program and the music.
KAY DESANCTIS (Curator, Yale Center for British Art)
Headline: RECORDING LOVINGLY RECALLS SIBLINGS’ LIFELONG RELATIONSHIP
Theodore Bikel’s voice adds a convincing reality to the total effect of musical segments followed by words.
NEW JERSEY METROWEST
In the hands of Harry Clark the portrait (Patience for the Harvest) of Jenny Lind and Emily Dickinson works uncannily well.
Jill Clayburgh’s reading of several of Dickinson’s poems is worth the price of admission alone.
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Leading a long list of pluses about the performance of the Duo was the marvelous musical nature of everything they did.
THE WASHINGTON POST