"Wow this is gorgeous! It's like classical, jazz and 20th century 'art" music all merged into a beautiful love affair! Also one of the greatest (formal) works I've heard for saxophone. Superb!" - Claude Werner, composer (on Concertino for saxophone & orchestra)
" I like your musical language. The way you treat an expressively widened approach to tonality, sonority, harmony, counterpoint, formal structure and development and orchestration resonates with me a lot. Nice to get to know your music! Being a dual citizen composer (German and US-American) myself, I often find more relationship with the ideological openness of American music culture than with the still somewhat restricted believe in German music world in what contemporary music should look like to be taken seriously." - Franz Biderstedt (referring to Hymn of Memnon).
"This is a really interesting piece of great expressive range and tonal complexity. The harmonic textures as well are rich and complex. The cross rhythms and orchestration remind me strongly of Berg, who is the only one of the 2nd Vienna school that I find satisfying to listen to." - Claude Werner (on Hymn of Memnon)
Excerpt of Review of Silent Film Score for The Cat & the Canary (1927): "Overall, this DVD is a fine addition to any film lover’s collection. The suspense and the comic relief of the film will delight viewers throughout multiple viewings, not to mention its historic cinematic value. We highly recommend this remastered DVD home video edition of The Cat and the Canary. This updated edition features. . . a new orchestral score by Franklin Stover, our personal listening preference." [Special Edition, Image Entertainment]