I found this work [Dhammapada Verses] fascinating, and, considering the new and different musical textures, oddly accessible…
--Charleston News and Courier

Atlanta composer Laurence Sherr’s enticingly titled “The Fiber Sculptures of a Celestial Vision”…works well as an impressionistic tone poem or as abstract music…Sherr extracts an arresting array of subtle shades of light and darkness…This fascinating coloristic world was successfully communicated…
--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A multifaceted interplay of musical shards…Listening to this movement is akin to participating in a creative process…swirling rhythm at once edgy and sensuous. The music is sprightly and surprisingly, with a mysterious echoic quality…
--The Gainesville Times

Such concern with subtleties of tone color is characteristic of Mr. Sherr… Sherr…proceeded to write a made-to-order piece carefully geared to the strengths and idiosyncrasies of each musician…the composer reveals his attention to color, achieving different timbral shades…He strives to make his music accessible and melodious without sacrificing deeper values:…
--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

…Sherr has craftily engaged all of the performers in a stylish, dissonant and rhapsodic style that showcased all of them…[Dhammapada Verses] was a very satisfying conclusion to the afternoon…
--Charleston Evening Post

…”Blue Ridge Frescos” for classical guitar, in which Sherr captures the character of the mountains of his homeland in impressionistic sound pictures.
--DrehPunktKultur: Die Salzburger Kulturzeitung im Internet

…smooth sweetness of Georgian Laurence Sherr’s transcription of Debussy’s “Arabesque” for orchestra…A welcome innovation was Sherr’s explanation of some of the methods by which he achieved the orchestral colors…
--The Macon Telegraph

Shades of klezmer, Eastern European folk and Jewish liturgical melodies haunt a new choral piece…
--The Jewish Times

Laurence Sherr created a ritual musical event…
Salzburger Nachrichten

…haunting thought-provoking music…
--The [KSU] Sentinel

Reviews of the CD KoFoMi #11: KULT that includes Sherr’s EIMI
What was produced in the context of an environment that spawns creativity, spans the range of composers that flirt with expressive free jazz aesthetics (Sherr)…enticing artistic expertise… sensitively constructed sound architectures and visionary inspired extensions…
--Freistil: Magazin fuer Musik und Umgebung

A wonderful supportive exhibit of the composer’s workshop that juxtaposes approaches and styles…
--Skug: Journal für Musik

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