The Dartmouth - Clif Ennico:
When a Dartmouth music student is honored by a Senior Fellowship for his composing and performing talents, we suspect it’s the start of something big. When the Dartmouth student fills two-thirds of Spaulding Auditorium for the first formal recital of his career, we think it’s the start of something big. When we leave two hours later after hearing--no, bearing witness to--the Dartmouth music student, we are convinced it’s the start of a prominent, lasting record of music genius. For Steven Radeck is perhaps one of the hottest musical talents to hit a New England university campus in recent years, and anyone who may have doubted his claim to future fame were converted last Friday night beyond all skepticism....the ovation was ear splitting.
The Dartmouth - Tim Parmenides:
...it is Steven Radeck who deserves the credit for institutionalizing New Music here in the form of the Dartmouth College New Music Ensemble. It was an EVENT we would be hard put to forget.
The Buffalo Evening News - Jeff Simon:
The Concert ended with a performance of Cage’s 1944 Book of Music for prepared piano by Steven Radeck and Joseph Kubera. The Book of Music may have struck some members of the audience as Tolstoyan in length but its entrancing patterns were well-played. Radeck and Martin Kalve performed a witty realization of the 1960 Music for Amplified Toy Pianos. Cage apparently was tickled by it. He was the first one in the audience on his feet applauding after the performance was over.
St. Louis Post Dispatch - Ron Elz:
In strolled Steve Radeck, pianist and artist-in-residence at Washington University. But it was the gent who was with Steve that made this moment in time special. It was the last of the great ragtime composers, 97-year-old Eubie Blake. Radeck was on stage at the Shubert Theatre in New York for Blake’s highly publicized 100th birthday celebration. It was some party!
Mekanisk Musik Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark - Claes Friberg:
So we have the great privilege to be able to invite you to a new series of concerts which will begin on June 18th. We will begin in grand style with 2 top names in the U.S.A.: Ragtime Bob Darch and Steven Radeck. We have engaged these two big names from Radio Sweden, with whom they are presently engaged with radio and television broadcasts.
Ireland Evening Echo, Cork, Ireland:
The Ragtime Bug has hit Cork in a big way. The word is out, and little wonder, considering the once-in-a-lifetime treat laid on nightly by master pianists Bob Darch and Steve Radeck at the Opera House, a venue which has never hosted anything quite like Forever Ragtime, currently being presented by the St. Louis Ragtime Ensemble. The nightly audience is treated to a memorable earful of ragtime piano playing by two of the greatest artists of the genre.
St. Louis Globe Democrat - James Wierzbicki:
Were George Gershwin still alive, he would have celebrated his 83rd birthday Saturday. Had he been in St. Louis, at Washington University’s Edison Theatre, he doubtless would have appreciated the veneration bestowed on his music by pianist Steven Radeck.... He’s a superb musician and his pre-intermission of Gershwin’s 1927 Preludes was a model of sensitivity.
The Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin - Walt Trott:
One of ragtime’s more enthusiastic contemporary proponents, Steve Radeck, is in town this week to show us just how beautiful ragtime can sound. Radeck, who sports a Gay Nineties style in the spotlight, is a friendly, laid-back type of performer who revels in what he’s doing. His keen sense of humor keeps patrons chuckling appreciatively, while his expertise as a researcher provides a pleasant plus-facts about the music.
