Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

(cum laude) and M. Kolb have been released by CRI and New World Records. Her music uses sound masses and often creates vertical structures through simultaneous rhythmic or melodic units (motifs or figures).

Discs devoted solely to the music of Ms. Kolb have been released by CRI and New World Records. Her compositions include All in Good Time (1993) commissioned for the 150th Anniversary of the New York Philharmonic and Voyants (1991) a concerto for piano and chamber orchestra dedicated to the memory of Aaron Copland.