Talisker Players, Jennie Such - soprano, Toronto. "Stephen Brown's Maxwell, Larry Douglas, a setting, word for word, of the obituary in a Toronto newspaper of the composer's dear friend. Brown's simple, but heartfelt, style, working against the conventional prose of a newspaper death notice, created a quite powerful impression, and Such sang the text with real emotion."
Robert Harris - Globe and Mail, Toronto
MAXWELL, Larry Douglas: Victoria, B.C. Victoria Conservatory of Music Orchestra, Danielle Meunier soprano, Composer conductor, "sung with great feeling... Brown directed a heartfelt performance that left the audience temporarily silenced, mute testimony to the power of music and friendship"
Deryk Barker - Times Colonist, Victoria, BC
Sunrise Serenade: Sidney, BC, St. Cecilia Orchestra, composer conductor. "A delight... Brown has created a work with its feet in both centuries, from its lively and stately (typically French) opening to the nobimente close. The work has a number of tricky changes of tempo and metre (particularly in the second movement) which were generally handled very well, as well as some wonderfully idiomatic string writing. For example, the passage in the passacaglia which is played initially on the double bass and divsi cellos, which is them joined by the violas, shows a genuine feel for the potential of the lower strings."
Deryk Barker - Times Colonist, Victoria, British Columbia