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Significant Press Quotes
Aural Innovations USA, June 2004, journalist Jerry Kranitz “ Cuban Lawyer, Juan Blanco “... Pretty wild stuff.”
WMUA 91.1 FM USA, program “Martian Gardens”, DJ Max Shea, June 2004, “....Cuban Lawyer, Juan Blanco is outstanding, marvelous!”
All-Music Guide, Canada, Francois Couture, February 26, 2004, “Cuban Lawyer, Juan Blanco,” electronic with dialogue, on CD from Russia, Electroshock Presents: “Electroacoustic Music. Vol. IX” “ Rudow’s electroacoustic accompaniment makes it a vivid and repeat-worthy listening experience.”
The Baltimore Sun, Sunday, August 14, 1994, Frances Richard, Director of ASCAP Symphony & Concert Department, "Vicky's career represents the best elements of the composer taking part in the music community of her time, reaching out in all media. She has created a catalog of work we applaud."
The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama, Nancy Raabe, October 8, 1996, Birmingham Art Music Alliance Concert, Craig Hultgren, cello "... the evening climaxed with a recreation of Vivian Adelberg Rudow's arresting three-way dialogue for live cello and decorated cello cases, "With Love"...the result on this occasion was at once poignant, whimsical, deeply musical (the spoken words were electronically arranged so as to be fit in with surrounding musical rhythms, yet seemed perfectly natural) and outrageously entertaining."
Keyboard Magazine, Robert L. Doerschuk, May 1989, Paula Skolnick-Virizlay, cello "LOOKING FOR A MOTHER'S day gift? This year skip the Hallmark card. Instead, call your mom, stick the phone next to your stereo speaker, and play Vivian Rudow's With Love. It'll make your mother happy, and maybe affect you even more deeply."
The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Joseph McLellan, November 20, 1986, Lori Barnet, cello, cello, "...The climatic work of the evening was "With Love" by Baltimore composer (and mother) Vivian Adelberg Rudow-a witty, hectic and quite surreal look at modern motherhood...quite enjoyable music...."
Business Record, The Dance Scene, November 26, 1993, "Weeping Rocker" : electronic score for dance, Nancy Wanich Romita, choreographer,...plus the power of the original music/sound score by Vivian Adelberg Rudow, makes the piece work.
St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch, St. Paul Minnesota, Roy M.
Close, November 14, 1986, Americana Visited Variations: viola & piano,
Andrea Een, & Jerry Rubino Minnesota Composers Forum Concert, "....But
it was an instrument piece "Americana Revisited (Crossover Variations),"
that provided the most entertainment."
The Evening Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, Alfred Haynes, December
4, 1984, "....Another highlight was Vivian Adelberg Rudow's "Journey of
Waters" with text by Grace Cavalieri. The music was luscious,
richly orchestrated and thoroughly delightful.
City Paper, Baltimore, Maryland, Wayne F. Henkel, December 10-16 1982, "Force III": The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Comissiona, conducting "...an accomplished, exciting and, at times, moving piece .... an underlying pulse of its composer being in tune with nature, the cosmos, and herself..."
News American, Baltimore, Maryland, R.P.Harris, December 3, 1982, "Force III", "... full of interesting thematic material... The force of nature is evocatively and descriptively expressed. But the wispy melodies, supported by blocks of texture rather than harmony, are tantalizingly evanescent."
The New York Times, review, Bernard Holland, KADDISH, Deborah Greitzer, bassoon, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Sunday, March 4, 1990.
Computer Music Journal, published MIT Press, Thomas Rhea, WITH LOVE, Elizabeth Simkins, cello, Electronic Music Plus 17 International Festival, Oberlin, Ohio, USA, April, 1990.
The Journal, Annandale, Virginia, Christiana Rodgers, NO REST FOR DEVY'S SPIRIT, DEVY'S SONG, Sherrie Norwitz, viola, Friday, April 6, 1990.