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Sun-Young Pahg’s austerely formal “L’autre moitié de Silence” for daegeum and ensemble featured Hong Yoo as soloist bending notes and bending time on the bamboo flute used in Korean folk and traditional music.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

First published in 1971, this austerely handsome volume assembles a dozen literary fairy tales, that is, stories written in imitation of the oral folk narratives transcribed by the Brothers Grimm and other scholars.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2021

From the start of the poignant Introitus to this austerely beautiful piece, I was hooked.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2020

This austerely designed but thematically florid psychological thriller aspires to a cosmic grandeur that at times directly invokes the myth of Prometheus, a mortal who stole fire from the gods.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2019

He was a tall, austerely pleasant man of about forty, a bachelor, and a writer by profession, being the author of several historical biographies.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford