"Impressive as the barbarous rumble and roil could be, what impressed most was Mr. Vaclavik’s feeling for proportion and resolution; no effect outlasted its efficacy."
-Steve Smith, The New York Times
“Driving and dynamic, the music seemed to come from all directions, filled with primal, Varèse-like blasts of brass and percussion.”
-Peter Matthews, Feast of Music
“Mr Vaclavik sought to dispel the notion of brass and percussion as mere noisemakers and in SHOCK WAVES, he explored myriad permutations of fully or partially muted instruments.”
-Bachtrack.com
“Another world premiere, Jude Vaclavik’s Shock Waves, for brass and percussion took rousing advantage of the vast expanses of sonics at the composer’s disposal … the suspense was relentless: it was impossible to know what was coming, and what would be next.”
-Lucid Culture
Promotional video by the New York Philharmonic prior to Shock Waves world premiere (2012).
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