"...rhythmically hypnotic, richly melodic...Teirstein's almost singable Quartet for Strings and Marimba is one of the finest pieces of music for dance I've heard..." 

Burt Supree, THE VILLAGE VOICE

"...a tumultuously exhuberant score by Andy Teirstein"

Jennifer Dunning, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"It all works, reminding us that political heat placed beneath art can sometimes burn it to a crisp. 'Winter Man' employs the cool hand of technique. Audience members leave the theater moved and troubled precisely because they have been made to see clearly."

Bernard Holland,  THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Andy Teirstein's vivid score is first rate..."

Jennifer Dunning, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Mr. Petronio is as lucky in his composer, Andy Teirstein, as he is in his dancers. Much of the satisfyingly thick texture of the group section of Drawn That Way comes from the blend of string music and the shifts from dark, earthy urgency to the floating purity of the voices.

Jennifer Dunning, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"...seems to speak in celestial accents of some utopia whose chief industry is dancing."

Deborah Jowitt, THE VILLAGE VOICE

The score [for Donald Byrds The Beast] is often touching. The musical feel is mostly early Kurt Weill or Paul Dessau as played by the band at any Viennese cafe.

Octavio Roca, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

"The jazz rhythms of Mr. Teirstein's magically atmospheric score..."

Anna Kisselgoff, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Andy Teirstein's score is an effective anthology that begins with cantorial pronouncements, skims through Eastern European klezmer intonations and even takes a detour into a little scat singing...

Debra Cash, THE BOSTON GLOBE

"...glimmering, restless score..Faust's concentration paralleled the sudden quiet and edgy undercurrent
of Teirstein's aural environment."

Robert Sandla, THE NATIVE

"In Andy Teirstein's splendid score mingle the principal currents of Australian culture: subtly altered British Isles folk gives way to the sounds of the aboriginal didgeridoo. Sometimes your ear gets signals of city life; sometimes barking and howling pierces through a shimmer of music to carry us to the vastness of the bush."

Deborah Jowitt, THE VILLAGE VOICE

"Teirstein did well in merging music, movement and text into a sensate whole. The sense of inner discovery was heightened with each increment of performance."

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