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David Hayes conducts a historic staging of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts.

Praise for Conductor David Hayes

Hayes’s firm conductorial hand and the chorus’s clear, polished singing, which so vividly put across this Vaughan Williams classic, equally benefited Hailstork’s new piece”.

-David Wright at New York Classical Review, 6/14/2023

https://newyorkclassicalreview.com/2023/06/new-york-choral-society-offers-somber-reflection-and-hope-with-hailstork-requiem/

“Hayes brought out a transparent texture and rounded, mahogany color from the string orchestra”

Cameron Kelsall, Bachtrack, 1/25/22

https://bachtrack.com/review-hayes-myers-smith-britten-chamber-orchestra-philadelphia-january-2022

David Haves conducting.

“Hayes has made clarity a first cause… ”

“Hayes has made clarity a first cause, but in this setting, diction, intervals, and sectional balances seemed unusually pointed. Without that clarity, Martino’s work would be mush.”
– Daniel Webster, Philadelphia Inquirer

“Philadelphia Singers music director David Hayes maintained edgy tension… ”

“Philadelphia Singers music director David Hayes maintained edgy tension, greeting every new idea with a fresh sense of astonishment and with well-judged vocal coloring right down to spellbinding exhaling effects in the final movement’s string writing.”
– David Patrick Stearns, Philadelphia Inquirer

“Hayes’ pace in the Beethoven (Mass in C) felt ideal; relaxed but flowing forward easily… ”

“…Hayes’ pace in the Beethoven (Mass in C) felt ideal; relaxed but flowing forward easily. The phrases had the opportunity to rise and fall as if the music were breathing… ”
– George Grella, New York Classical Review

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