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The hall’s acoustics are fabulous for the Muhly scores, stirringly played by the ensemble Le Balcon and sensitively conducted by Maxime Pascal.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2024

But if “Occupied City” is an account of barbarism in a country that saw about 75% of its Jewish population murdered during the Holocaust, it is also, stirringly, a chronicle of mass resistance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024

An author once confused with his writer father returns stirringly — and revealingly — to the story of his youth in the memoir ‘Townie.’

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2023

Jason Robert Brown composes a stirringly lush, operatic score of intense marches and plaintive ballads for this horrific story, which is packed with pathos but not much drama.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

Home to the cover, Deserted by night, The little red rover Is bending his flight—” Could words more stirringly describe the hope and promise, the joy, the vitality, the buoyant exhilaration of a hunting morning?

From Riding Recollections, 5th ed. by Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John)