Reviews 2021 - Ear Taxi Festival
"I finally made it to the Kehrein Center, where Lisa Goethe-McGinn used four flutes to show how performance technique has evolved. Unlike other wind instruments, flutes are played with an open mouth, allowing words, singing, and other verbal effects to accompany the traditional sounds formed by blowing into the pipe. A high point was Sometimes the City is Silent by Janice Misurell-Mitchell, who was in the audience. The piece, which I have heard Misurell-Mitchell herself perform, doc aments the sounds she heard from the 25th floor window of the residence in New York."
Louis Harris , Third Coast Review. Women Artists take the spotlight at Ear Taxi Festival, October 1, 2021
"The program continued with flutist Lisa Goethe-McGinn, who delivered a uniformly strong performance in a collection of solo works by women composers including Augusta Read Thomas, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, and Goethe-McGinn herself. The flutist particularly excelled in Kyong Mee Choi's Slight Uncertainty is Very Attactive, a searing work bolstered by a stunning electronic accompaniment that layered flute, strummed piano strings, and chimes into a swirling maelstrom. Goethe-McGinn closed the set with Regina Harris Baoicchi's Autumn Night, a bluesy ballad for alto flute that delivered with all the melancholy and stylishness of a late-night street-corner busker.
Landon Hegedus, Chicago Classical Music Review. Ear Taxi Festival Delivers Day Long Excellence, October 2, 2021
"I finally made it to the Kehrein Center, where Lisa Goethe-McGinn used four flutes to show how performance technique has evolved. Unlike other wind instruments, flutes are played with an open mouth, allowing words, singing, and other verbal effects to accompany the traditional sounds formed by blowing into the pipe. A high point was Sometimes the City is Silent by Janice Misurell-Mitchell, who was in the audience. The piece, which I have heard Misurell-Mitchell herself perform, doc aments the sounds she heard from the 25th floor window of the residence in New York."
Louis Harris , Third Coast Review. Women Artists take the spotlight at Ear Taxi Festival, October 1, 2021
"The program continued with flutist Lisa Goethe-McGinn, who delivered a uniformly strong performance in a collection of solo works by women composers including Augusta Read Thomas, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, and Goethe-McGinn herself. The flutist particularly excelled in Kyong Mee Choi's Slight Uncertainty is Very Attactive, a searing work bolstered by a stunning electronic accompaniment that layered flute, strummed piano strings, and chimes into a swirling maelstrom. Goethe-McGinn closed the set with Regina Harris Baoicchi's Autumn Night, a bluesy ballad for alto flute that delivered with all the melancholy and stylishness of a late-night street-corner busker.
Landon Hegedus, Chicago Classical Music Review. Ear Taxi Festival Delivers Day Long Excellence, October 2, 2021
Ear Taxi Festival 2021!
photos courtesy, Foresst Strong LaFave
photos courtesy, Foresst Strong LaFave
Past Reviews
"To play contemporary music compellingly an instrumentalist must have a fanatical belief in the new and an arsenal of newfangled techniques...Flutist, Lisa Goethe, has both qualities..."
Ted Shen, Reader
"a wonderful instrumental performer..."
John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune
"presents a vast spectrum of musical color moving from raw to golden song."
Wynne Delacoma, Chicago Sun Times
"To play contemporary music compellingly an instrumentalist must have a fanatical belief in the new and an arsenal of newfangled techniques...Flutist, Lisa Goethe, has both qualities..."
Ted Shen, Reader
"a wonderful instrumental performer..."
John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune
"presents a vast spectrum of musical color moving from raw to golden song."
Wynne Delacoma, Chicago Sun Times
working on temA with Helmut Lachenman with Julia Bentley and Helmut taking the place of the cellist. photo courtesy Betty Freeman
Set of pix below, courtesy Matthew Goethe
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Some early Showcases and Reviews from the start of my professional career! I particularly like the Lachenman review section with The Cure announcement above as they have always been one of my fave bands! (To view this, please go to web setting not mobile)
I love the low flutes - me and my alto!
photo courtesy, Charles Lipp
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CFC Performers Concert 2007. That's me in the back in red.