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"Under its music director, Robert Bass, The Collegiate Chorale has been setting its sight well beyond conventional choral music in recent seasons. It is recognized for its performances of major choral repertorie and new commissions from living composers."
Barrymore Laurence Scherer, The Wall Street Journal
"Robert Bass, who led . . . Puccini: A Composer's Journey at Carnegie Hall . . . is an imaginative musician who knows his way around choruses."
Martin Bernheimer, Financial Times
"He [Robert Bass] has done excellent work and led the organization [Collegiate Chorale] in ambitious . . . new directions."
"The Collegiate Chorale sang with its customary robust sound, skill and involvement. Mr. Bass conducted a sweeping and authoritative performance."
Anthony Tommasini, The NewYork Times
"Robert Bass's Collegiate Chorale performances have become essential events, deploying temperature raising soloists against choral power and sheen."
David Shengold, TimeOut New York
"The excellent Collegiate Chorale has been putting on important opera performances . . .[that are] now an important part of New York's musical life."
George Loomis, The New York Sun
"Never before have I heard this mass - often described as Verdi's "last opera" - as dynamically and as sensitively performed. Robert Bass's fantastically well-prepared chorus provided stunning nuances...from internalized pianissimos to the warmest forte of the Dies Irae."
Neue Merker, (Austria)
"Here was a night, where we could touch heaven with our fingertips."
Rocco Zacheo, Le Temps
