Press Response

SoNA off to ambitious new season
Published by
The City Wire
The program was ambitious. The performance was electrifying. It was a concert that renews a community’s love of music and sends concertgoers clamoring for season tickets…Haas’ conducting was once again inspiring and filled with grace, elegance and confidence…The orchestra that enjoyed an auspicious…
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America’s forgotten Buddhist superhero
…a mixed-media sensory experience that was like nothing I’ve seen before and, dare I say it, it even bordered on the spiritual.

An Opera, Rarely Heard, From a Troupe, Newly Born
Published by
The New York Times, Oct 19, 2009
Paul Haas…offered a passionate, refined and keenly balanced account of [the opera].