 
 “…the composer possesses a strong 
        melodic gift. He is also fond of somewhat unusual instrumental combinations 
        that further serve to give his music color and diversity…For all its 
        Baroque-oriented instrumentation [Atlantic Legend], Alpher creates 
        something new and decidely Romantic somewhat in the vein of Barber…The 
        recordings are all very fine.”
   —Fanfare 
“Alpher’s music is all his own, and it is remarkably 
                good. One can view Alpher’s work…as lpheran extension of Bernstein’s melodic 
                style; as such, it is remarkably rare…One cannot wait to offer a number of comments on David 
                Alpher’s Kerouac. But perhaps the most impressive measure of the 
                work was that Kerouac succeeded in holding its own, and sticking 
                in the memory, up against a superb performance of that monument of stupefying 
                perfection—Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A.”
                  —The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ