"...an interesting mixture of voices and music...the chanting voices of Kaplan's composition achieved peaks and there were peaks of stillness."

"...Kaplan's score combined with the onstage splashes to create a delightful aural effect and the performance was beautifully understated."

"...electronic efforts were certainly apropos...all the elements of the art in place creating a score with depth in orchestration and solid continuity for the performers."

"...Kaplan composed varied scores that helped make events energetic."

"...I am always stimulated by the quality and imagination of his music. He is one of the rare musicians who feel the movement and the sound all tied up together. The music continues to be stunning and more interesting with each hearing."

"Rob Kaplan's musical score for the 1982 Fault Line was full of ominous drum rolls and the emergency warning sounds-sirens and horns that punctuate our urban situation..."

"The haunting score for native-sounding pipes and flutes, composed by Rob Kaplan, conjures up wind and ghostly chants."

"The music, by Rob Kaplan, evokes a high, windy desert landscape and the integrity of vanished
rites."

"Even before the curtain rose, odd things happened. Voices chirped and cackled in unknown tongues. Those noises were part of the music by Ben Hazard and Robert Kaplan, whose score consisted of vocal sounds made by the dancers themselves. Once the curtain was up, the babbling intensified."

"What made The Grand Duchess Laughing bizarre was its score by Ben Hazard and Robert Kaplan, which consisted entirely of cackles, chirps, squeaks and hums made by the dancers as they moved. These utterances were totally unintelligible. Nevertheless, the way voices rose and fell created the illusion that people were engaged in lively conversations. Tone of voice became important for its own sake...Whenever dancers and writers make unexpected sense out of apparent nonsense, artistic alchemy occurs."