Music Review
"Musicians like Evan Parker and Anne LeBaron and Charlotte Hug and Joe McPhee and Milford Graves and Han Bennink and Peter Brötzmann and George Lewis and Steve Beresford and Paul Lovens are among the great artists of our era. It may be awhile before history recognizes them for this, but I’m confident that it will come to pass.”
Rhys Tranter interviews John Corbett, Sequenza21 , 2017
Read More“Anne LeBaron’s Irona (the Housewife) translated the soap operas and household chores defining Irona’s daily existence into a musical language that successfully combines electronic pop elements and repetitive patterns into the trash aesthetic of television.”
Read More“Anne LeBaron thoroughly studied the musical culture of our country and, based on it, has composed her own work. Dramatic action unfolds in three languages -Kazakh, Russian and English. The silence of the great Steppes and the memory of that silence - is golden.”
Vera Lyahovskaya, Izvestiya, 2012
Read More“The artist inhabits her massive instrument as if it were a continent; she fords its rivers of strings and discovers new worlds in the crevices of tonality… nervous and hoarse and brilliant. LeBaron is a true “stratigrapher” in her layering of material, where new vistas seem to unfold endlessly behind others.”
The New York City Jazz Record, 2011
Read MoreLe Baron’s Solar Music was mesmerizing. The composer was in attendance, and in her remarks said that the pre-existing title was apropos to the dynamic of her work although was chosen post-hoc to its composition. The reference is to Mexican surrealist painter Remedios Varo’s work with “a woman standing in a dying forest, bowing rays of the sun.”
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