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REVIEWS FROM THE PRESS & PERFORMERS
"A Life In Composition" by Lulu Zhou for The Harvard Crimson, June 8, 2005
"A Georgia Song is destined to set a high standard for American vocal music. Its blending of classical and popular ideals is the long-awaited manifestation of American Nationalism."
—Darryl Taylor, founder, African-American Art Song Alliance
"The Amherst Saxophone Quartet has had as much fun performing subsequent concerts of Theodore Wiprud's Saxophone Quartet as we did playing the complete premiere of this major new work. It is a work of substance, rewarding to perform, and warmly received by audiences. We recommend including it in what is becoming the standard repertory for saxophone quartet."
—Stephen Rosenthal, Amherst Saxophone Quartet
"[Hosannas of the Second Heaven] kept the audience in the kind of high state of excitement that may exist in Paradise for those of us lucky enough to get there."
—The Greenfield Recorder
"That's what gave the concert . . . its intellectual zing. Bringing together works that expressed faith without words, this was as non-New York a concert as I'd heard in years—quiet, meditative, sans applause, the pieces linked via narration by NPR's Ellen Kushner—and it traveled a cross-continental range of spiritualities . . . Can music elicit spiritual response? Can it depict the experiences on which faith is based? Assuming it can do either, which is more valuable? Or do we need both, at different times and for different religions? Such questions would be well worth pursuing in future, similar concerts."
—"Why Was 'Beyond Words' Different From All Other New York Concerts?"
By Kyle Gann for The Village Voice, April 24, 2001
"A Life In Composition" by Lulu Zhou for The Harvard Crimson, June 8, 2005
"A Georgia Song is destined to set a high standard for American vocal music. Its blending of classical and popular ideals is the long-awaited manifestation of American Nationalism."
—Darryl Taylor, founder, African-American Art Song Alliance
"The Amherst Saxophone Quartet has had as much fun performing subsequent concerts of Theodore Wiprud's Saxophone Quartet as we did playing the complete premiere of this major new work. It is a work of substance, rewarding to perform, and warmly received by audiences. We recommend including it in what is becoming the standard repertory for saxophone quartet."
—Stephen Rosenthal, Amherst Saxophone Quartet
"[Hosannas of the Second Heaven] kept the audience in the kind of high state of excitement that may exist in Paradise for those of us lucky enough to get there."
—The Greenfield Recorder
"That's what gave the concert . . . its intellectual zing. Bringing together works that expressed faith without words, this was as non-New York a concert as I'd heard in years—quiet, meditative, sans applause, the pieces linked via narration by NPR's Ellen Kushner—and it traveled a cross-continental range of spiritualities . . . Can music elicit spiritual response? Can it depict the experiences on which faith is based? Assuming it can do either, which is more valuable? Or do we need both, at different times and for different religions? Such questions would be well worth pursuing in future, similar concerts."
—"Why Was 'Beyond Words' Different From All Other New York Concerts?"
By Kyle Gann for The Village Voice, April 24, 2001
