Editing Frederic Rzewski (section)

== Appraisal ==
[[Nicolas Slonimsky]] said of Rzewski in 1993: "He is furthermore a granitically overpowering piano technician, capable of depositing huge boulders of sonoristic material across the keyboard without actually wrecking the instrument."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Slonimsky|first=Nicolas|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28710250|title=The concise edition of Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians|date=1994|publisher=Schirmer Books|isbn=0-02-872416-X|edition=8|location=New York|oclc=28710250|page=857}}</ref> Michael Schell called Rzewski "the most important living composer of piano music, and surely one of the dozen or so most important living American composers".<ref name=":0" />

In ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981), [[Robert Christgau]] reviewed ''Coming Together/Attica/Moutons de Panurge'', an album recorded with vocals by performance artist Steve Ben Israel and released in 1973 by Opus One Records. "The design of 'Coming Together' is simple, even minimal", Christgau said. "Steve ben Israel reads and rereads one of Sam Melville's letters from Attica over a jazzy, repetitious vamp. Yet the result is political art as expressive and accessible as ''[[Guernica (Picasso)|Guernica]]''. In ben Israel's interpretation, Melville's prison years have made him both visionary and mad, and the torment of his incarceration is rendered more vivid by the nagging intensity of the music. The [LP's] other side features a less inspiring political piece and a percussion composition, each likable but not compelling, but that's a cavil. 'Coming Together' is amazing."<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: R|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=R&bk=70|access-date=March 12, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>