Press
Excerpts, with links to full reviews
Only David Feurzeig's Stride Rite, with its collagelike juxtaposition of Harlem stride piano and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, had the kind of purpose and trickster sensibility that allowed it to stand up well next to Ives.
--David Patrick Stearns, Philadelphia Inquirer 3/9/2005
Feurzeig slips in folk rhythms and jazz: together with clusters, interjections, and even staged action, a compelling mixture emerged. [Songs of Love and Protest]
--Hartmut Schütz, Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 11/2/2006
Social relevance...with a generous mixture of traditional and new musical elements. An initially late-Romantic structure is broken up and dissolved until the music often becomes downright disembodied. Sudden eruptions and folkloric accents work convincingly. [Songs of Love and Protest]
--Peter Zacher, Sächsicher Zeitung, 11/3/2006
High Water, University of Vermont composer David Feurzeig’s 10-minute tribute to Tropical Storm Irene, proved most fascinating...While the work is musically complex, combining tonal and atonal language, and a wide palette of colors, it is superficially programmatic and easily accessible...intriguing, well-crafted music.
--James Lowe, Rutland Herald, 9/23/2012
Lingua Franca [is] pure delicious delight.
--Harry Rolnick, ConcertoNet, 11/02/2017
The seamless blending of techniques, from traditional to atonal, in a most attractive package is testament to the UVM music professor’s skills…Truly touching...quite beautiful. [Five Bagatelles]
--James Lowe, Montpelier Times Argus, 1/18/2015
Undoubtedly the highlight of the evening: Feurzeig’s solo cello piece...Within the first three chords, the effect that Feurzeig had described was fully realized and did not let up throughout the duration of the piece…[which] ended with an epic final stroke of the bow that caused the audience to burst into a standing ovation…Nothing short of towering.