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Oh Millersville! blog post & Ol’ Grinnell’s top character? Des Moines Register article by Chuck Offenburger (10/27/2024 & 1/12/1996)

The Inside Story: Jonathan Chenette and DIVISION OF MEMORY feature and interview on Elegy and Affirmation at the Navona/Parma Recordings blog site (12/19/2021)

Composer Strikes Local Chord profile by Benjamin Root focused on Oh Millersville! in The Grinnell Magazine (Spring 1992)

Chenette premier highlights DSO concert review by Randy Rodgers in the Dubuque Telegraph Herald of the premiere of Oh Millersville! in its version with orchestral accompaniment (2/28/1992)

DSO premiering Oh Millersville preview by Randy Rodgers in the Dubuque Telegraph Herald of the premiere of Oh Millersville! in its version with orchestral accompaniment (2/20/1992)

Operatic ‘Soul’ Deserves Saving review by Harvey Hess in the Waterloo Courier of Eric Hermannson’s Soul opera premiere (9/19/1993)

Composing the Heartland: an original opera is born in Iowa preview by Maria Hickey in The Daily Iowan of Iowa City performance of Eric Hermannson’s Soul (9/24/1993)

A ‘Midwest’ Opera: Eric Hermannson’s Soul preview of premiere by Joan Bunke in The Des Moines Register (9/5/1993)

Landscape of Soul: Grinnell composer writes from home and Heart and Sjel profiles by Kristin Senty-Brown and Harvey Hess for Tractor: A Quarterly Magazine of Iowa Arts and Culture (winter 1994)

Chenette’s opera: Impressive review and interview by Joan Bunke in The Des Moines Register after premiere of Eric Hermannson’s Soul (9/19/1993)

Chenette opera highly original event anonymous review in The Grinnell Herald Register after premiere of Eric Hermannson’s Soul (9/16/1993)

Chenette’s “Soul” Has Something For Everyone preview by Jennifer Prusak in the Scarlet & Black (9/10/1993)

Grinnell professor’s 8-year opera project debuts anonymous preview in the Cedar Rapids Gazette (9/10/1993)

Composers forum offers humor, eloquence review by Joan Bunke in The Des Moines Register of Oh Millersville! (5/18/1992)

Old, new give due to Mozart review by Rebecca P. Lindwall in The Cedar Rapids Gazette of the Cedar Rapids Symphony Chamber Orchestra premiere of Triple Feature (2/7/1994)

This Concert Will Take the Cake anonymous preview in Counterpoint: The Quarterly Newsletter of the Des Moines Symphony of the premiere of Broken Ground (Spring 1996)

Poems + music = ‘Broken Ground’ preview by Joan Bunke in The Des Moines Register before Des Moines Symphony premiere of Broken Ground (5/5/1996)

Symphony finale is poetic, inventive tribute to prairie review by Joan Bunke in The Des Moines Register after Des Moines Symphony premiere of Broken Ground (5/12/1996)

Mystical Musical Recollection of Iowa’s Birth feature by Jerry Owen and When the Ground was Broken personal reflection by collaborating poet Mary Swander for Tractor: A Quarterly Magazine of Iowa Arts and Culture after premiere of Broken Ground (fall 1996)

Reviews of Chamber Symphony for 31 Instruments:

• Paul Van Emmerik. Het Parool. Saturday 10/5/85
• Ernest Vermeulen. NRC Handelsblad. Saturday 10/5/85
• Ronald De Beer. De Volkskrant. Monday 10/7/85
• Roeland Hazendonk. De Telegraaf. Monday 10/7/85
• Elliott Schwartz. Hi Fidelity/Musical America. April 1986
• Michael Anthony. Minneapolis Star Tribune. Sunday 4/10/88