“Mathews’s jazzy settings highlight the mix of urbane wit, anxious yearning, and satiric gallows humor that makes [Dorothy] Parker’s ruminations on sexual folly and emotional dependency as fresh today as when they were written in the 1920s and ’30s . . . the score is packed with delicious new numbers in the sassy, sophisticated vein of Porter, Sondheim, and Rodgers and Hart.”
—Albert Williams, The Chicago Reader
“You have chosen [Walt Whitman] poems that interconnect effectively. You have set them with striking sensitivity and emotional depth. . . I am so moved by Tears and “Set ope the doors O soul. Tenderly” etc. There are many marvelous moments for the pianist as well. I am sailing through That Music Always Round Me with such joy!”
—Dalton Baldwin, Accompanied Jessye Norman, Gerard Souzay
“The music is gorgeous, especially Mathews’ Rossetti Songs.”
—French Cultural Journal, Monsieur Délire
Winner of the 2011 American Composer’s Forum VocalEssence Choral Award, Philip Brunelle, Music Director
“Drone, a relevant, riveting examination of family, culture and prejudice concerning a Nevada drone pilot surveilling a Pakistani suspected of being a Taliban insurgent.”
—Russell Florence, Jr. MostMetro.com