Cleveland: Making the Old Sound New Again
by Zachary M. Lewis
New Music Box
November 11th, 2005
Standards Keep Rising with Wonderful Start to the 20th Season
by Donald Rosenberg
Cleveland Plain Dealer
November 15th, 2005
"...grounded in ominous percussion rumblings, upon which the rest of the orchestra builds songful and defiant gestures. Hale...is a skilled craftsman with a keen ear for colorful and yearning sonic possibilities."
WCO Premiers Bard Graduate's Composition
by Marianne Darrow
The Townsman, Entertainment Column
March 13th, 2003
"...a truly original work, with a lush, exquisite string solo passage that was worthy of immediate applause....Surely much more will be heard from this personable young composer..."
Mendelssohn's Music Might Bring on Thaw
by Kitty Montgomery
Daily Freeman
March 11th, 2003
"...commences with a tentative flute line, fusing with clarinet, that fingers into the subconscious like the first trickles of snow melt collecting and intruding down Catskill Mountain streams. By midday, the sound turns to an inexorable rush of multiple rivulets, then mutes with the deep temperatures of night."
Composers Breaking Out: ACF Announces CCP
New Music Box
by Molly Sheridan
November 4th, 2002