Reviews of the score for "Men's Stories":

Deborah Jowitt in The Village Voice said, “Scott Marshall’s impressive score makes heavy use of Beethoven – the Emperor and Piano Concerto No. 3 – but also smears it or lets other elements fade up through it: his own music, sound effects, a Jewish-sounding melody, an operatic soprano, pop songs, a father-son sex talk, a calliope, and more. These fragments seem keyed to the ‘portraits’ of particular dancers. And whenever Beethoven’s voice sounds clear again, it cloaks them all in glory.” Jennifer Dunning in the New York Times called the score “ingenious.” Clive Barnes in the New York Post found the score “rather fun” and thought that Beethoven “twisted [in his grave] like a chicken on a rotisserie.” New York Newsday commented that "Marshall’s score... is a dense sludge that layers speech, ambient sound, and old pop recordings on top of Beethoven piano music, alluding to fraught relationships between sons and their fathers, sons and their mothers”. The New Yorker thought the score was "intriguingly weird", while Show Business Weekly said it was “unorthodox, [with an effect similar to] a… radio station in which transmission drifts in and out and overlaps.”

Other reviews and press mentions:

Michael Wade Simpson, "Forget Mickey Mouse -- Oakland Ballet stages a darker and creepier 'Sorcerer's Apprentice'",
San Francisco Chronicle, 11/28/05

Leigh Witchel, "Lightweight Vessels", www.danceviewtimes.com, Volume 3, No. 42, 11/14/05

Calendar review, The New Yorker, 11/7/05

Jesse Hamlin “Oakland Ballet back” San Francisco Chronicle, 5/20/05

Robyn Coffey "SAIC Comic Alumnus: Scott Marshall, Ethan Persoff, Jessica Abel", F Newsmagazine, March 2005

Tom Schulte “Outsight Review: ‘Dark Side’” The Survivor Newsletter of Long Island City, NY, Vol. 16, No. 8, Aug. 2004

Jeet Heer “The Bush Junta” , Indy Magazine, Autumn 2004

Elyse Sommer “Curtain Up in the Berkshires: Summer 2004 Music and Dance Diary”, CurtainUp.com, 7/18/04

Charlotte Cripps, "Affairs of the heart and soul", The Independent, 6/30/04

Tom Schulte “Outsight Review: ‘My Life in the Gush of Boasts’” Outsight Music (Ink 19.com) (Turbula.net), 3/21/04

Tom Schulte “Outsight Review: ‘Black and White’” Outsight Music (Ink 19.com) (Furious.com), 12/23/03

Jack Anderson “An Apprentice is a Classic Overachiever”, The New York Times, 12/10/03

Gus Solomons Jr. “The Darker Side of Playtime”, New York Gay City News, 11/22-11/28/02

Chris Dohse “Ich Bin von Kopf bis Fuss Liebe Eingestellt: Falling with Scott Rink”, The Dance Insider, 11/11-11/14/02

Astrida Woods “Lar Lubovitch Dance Company”, Show Business, 10/31-11/6/01

Susan Yung “Decadent Display: Fireworks from Re-born Lubovitch Troupe”, The Dance Insider, 10/10-10/23/01

Jennifer Dunning “Reinterpreting Classics, Celebrating Men’s Lives”, The New York Times, 10/20/01

Clive Barnes “Honorable ‘Men’tion”, The New York Post, 10/19/01

Jack Anderson “An Old Hatred Continues to Burn”, The New York Times, 10/4/01

Jennifer Dunning “Ballets with Fresh Twists and Fresh Faces”, The New York Times, 8/15/01

Deborah Jowitt “Peeling Down”, The Village Voice, 12/19/00

Sylvianne Gold “The Emotional Range of ‘Men’”, New York Newsday, 12/5/00

Anna Kisselgoff “Nine Men Amid Gothic Strangeness”, The New York Times, 12/2/00

Joseph Carman “Men on Men”, The New York Blade, 12/1/00

Chris Dohse “Moving Men’s Stories for All: Lubovitch’s Universal ‘Ruins’”, The Dance Insider, 12/1/00

Jennifer Dunning “Ballet Theater Shows Off a Nation’s Students”, The New York Times, 8/8/00

Britt Robson “‘Black Panther Suite’ Captures a Movement’s Sound and Fury”, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 8/27/99

Davey Williams “Sounding Off!”, The Improvisor, Volume 11, 1996

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