You can't
help but like Nancy Bloomer Deussen's music. With its shifting tonal centers,
effectively used dissonances and occasional jazz rhythms, it has enough
modern flavor to be of today, yet her music is meant to please the ear,
rather than shock it. Deussen's
"Reflections on the Hudson" (for orchestra) received the most enthusiastic
reception of any new work premiered here in recent years. The themes were
musically and emotionlly understood and assimilated; the composer painted
for us a restful, sylvan vision of a wide-flowing river.
REDLANDS DAILY FACTS (CA)
Nancy
Bloomer Deussen will plainly please a wide audience with her thoroughly
beautiful music. Very modern, very tonal.
CD Review of "Postcards"
North/South Records
ALTERNATE MUSIC PRESS
Bloomer
Deussen of Palo Alto has an irrepressible lyric penchant which marked all
the works performed at Monday evening's concert. Even "Cascades" (for piano),
a toccata, couldn't wait to break off into song, which it did twice and
generously.
PENINSULA TIMES TRIBUNE, 1990
Nancy
Bloomer Deussen is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and her work is
distinguished by a genuinely sweet lyricism. Where I find the music most
satisfying is in the tunefulness of its slow movements, the lovliest of
which is "Julia's Song," in memoriam for the composer's mother.
CD Review of "2x3-Music of Women Composers"
North/South Records 1015
FANFARE, September/October, 1998
The
sense of the composer's identity was never overwhelmed. The piece asked
only to be unashamedly enjoyed for its sensuous and cleanly stated sentiment,
yet was written with the elegance and intelligence that would make it difficult
to dismiss.
Review of "Amber Waves" for solo piano performed by the composer at
ACF Salon. The work was rediscovered after the manuscript was missing for
30 years.
20TH CENTURY MUSIC, 1998
A gorgeous
little exercise in conservative music writing!
Review of world premiere of "Reflections on the Hudson" by the Marin
Symphony.
COMMUTER TIMES, 1994
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