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Reverie, Interrupted for tenor saxophone and piano is featured on Parma Recording's album Sculpting the Air: Modern Works for Wind Instruments, with Jordan P. Smith, tenor saxophone, and James Adler, piano. Adler’s piece is reminiscent of Barber; it is well written for both saxophone and piano. -- Paul Turok, Turok's Choice, August 4, 2011.
Adler’s style here offers lyricism with edge -- Robert Hugill, Planet Hugill
This is a very nice jazz- inflected work that meanders in and out of the lyrical and the buoyant; all supported by a very neat noir-like piano part. -- Daniel Coombs, Audiophile Audition
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Reverie, Interrupted
Reflections upon a September morn
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Reflections upon a September morn features poetry by Walt Whitman and is the composers remembrance of the events of 9/11. Featuring Kate Maroney, mezzo-soprano; Virginia Brewer, oboe and English horn; and James Adler, piano, this 8-minute work is released by Albany Records as a digital single available for download only. Employing words from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” from “Leaves of Grass,” that, though written a century-and-a-half earlier, sound hauntingly prescient in their pertinence to the present-day disaster...As set by Adler, Whitman’s lines—“I am the mash’d fireman with breast-bone broken,/Tumbling walls buried me in their debris,/Heat and smoke I inspired, I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,/I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels,/They have clear’d the beams away, they tenderly lift me forth”—resonate chillingly anew in the recording. -- Bruce-Michael Gelbert, [Q]onStage.com
The performance is wonderful; Kate Moroney sings with fervor, Virginia Brewer and James Adler accompany brilliantly. The whole is recommended, a fine, moving piece. -- Paul Turok, Turok's Choice
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Memento mori: An AIDS Requiem
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Composed by James Adler Adler writes for both chorus and orchestra with uncommon imagination. -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Affecting, even harrowing, this is one of the most successful large-scale musical works to consider those who have died of AIDS. -- Musicmatch
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James Adler plays Syncopated Rhythms
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Music by Adler, Antheil, Copland, Gershwin, Gottschalk, Joplin, Menotti, and Ornstein. See Mr. Adler perform music from the CD on our performance archive page, including: James Adler's Two Dances in One; Aaron Copland's Hoedown from Rodeo; and Leo Ornstein's Nine Miniatures for Piano. We enjoyed it a great deal; you're clearly a fine pianist and your treatment of Dad's pieces is lovely and sensitive. -- Severo Ornstein, May 2008
This CD is a find for those who are fascinated by obscure byways of American piano music; much heard here is not, as far as I know, available elsewhere -- Scott Morrison, amazon.com
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Light and Sirius
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Solo Piano Pieces performed by Nicholas UnderhillMusic by Adler, Philo, Underhill, and Viens James Adler's [3] Piano Transitions spins appealing variations on the venerable forms of passacaglia, prelude and toccata before immersing itself in spicy and ebullient Caribbean-influenced dances. -- Gramophone, January 2008
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