W I L L I A M J A Y

S Y D E M A N

F E A T U R E D R E V I E W S

“Composer Sydeman... has a flair for arresting ideas that stamp him as one of the most talented of U.S. newcomers”

- Time Magazine, 1962

“Imagination and fantasy, allied with a contemporary musical vocabulary and a solid sense of structure, make Mr. Sydeman’s works unusually fascinating.”

- The New York Times

“Sydeman uses a whole battery of far-out techniques but he has an uncanny ability to throw in the whole avant-garde machinery...as if it were the simplest, most normal way of making music in the world....of great effect, clever and direct. Almost neoclassical avant-garde”

- The New York Times

May 8, 1928 - May 27, 2021