RADIO BROADCAST PERFORMANCES

• Minnesota Public Radio’s Pipedreams (5/12/2008) (Laudate Nomen)
• With Heart and Voice, National Broadcast (11/19/07, 11/20/06) (Confitemini Domino)
• Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Salt Lake City, Utah (Laudate Nomen) 
  Music and the Spoken Word Broadcast (6/4/06, 3/7/04, 2/23/03, 10/27/02)
• CBC Radio Two, Montreal, Quebec (1/30/2003) (Proud Music of the Storm)
• CBC Radio Two, Montreal, Quebec (9/11/2002) (Laudate Nomen)
• KSMU, Springfield, MO (3/6/02 & 3/20/02) (Native Moments)
• WBUR, Boston (2/6/2000) (Psalm 122)
• WCRB-102.5 FM, Boston (1/30/2000) (I Lift Up My Eyes To The Hills)
• WBUR, Boston (9/26/1999) (Psalm 122)
• Minnesota Public Radio’s Pipedreams (5/24/1999) (Confitemini Domino)
• WCRB-102.5 FM, Boston (5/16/1999) (Psalm 67)
• WCRB-102.5 FM, Boston (4/11/1999) (Confitemini Domino)
• WGBH’s Classics in the Morning, Boston (8/11/1998) (Confitemini Domino)
• Société Radio-Canada/Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1998) (Sonata for Cello and Piano)
• Nebraska Public Radio (1998) (Native Moments)
• Minnesota Public Radio (1997) (Sing Unto the Lord A New Song)
• WCRB, Boston (1995-96) (Sing Unto the Lord A New Song, Show Us Your Mercy)
• WBUR, Boston (1993-97) (Psalm 122)

RADIO & TELEVISION BROADCASTS/INTERVIEWS

• NBC/KY3 (April 25, 2008)  Interview on Kennedy Center performance
• Hallmark Channel, Music and the Spoken Word, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, (Laudate Nomen) (June 3, 2007) 
• NBC Broadcast, Moravian College Vespers, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, (Ah from a Little Child) (12/25/06)
• NBC/KY3 (October 9, 2003)  Interview on "How to be a Composer"
• KSMU Radio, Springfield (MO) Symphony, "Symphony in the Ozarks," March 6 & 20, 2002 (Native Moments)

• Olympic coverage for Luge, Springfield, Missouri
• NBC/KY3 (February 6 and 10, 2002)
• CBS/KOLR10 (February 6, 2002)
• ABC/KSPR33 (February 6, 2002)

• KIOS-FM Radio, Omaha, Omaha Symphony, April 26, 1998 and
  Nebraska Public Radio, April 30, 1998

• Minnesota Public Radio, Minneapolis, Minnesota All-State, Mindy Ratner
  Broadcast throughout MPR’s affiliates on April 26, 1997

PERFORMANCE & RECORDING REVIEWS

• But the smartest, most well-crafted offering had to have been Carlyle Sharpe’s Proud Music of the Storm, commissioned by the Singers in 2001. Sharpe, who was on hand for a curtain call, used lines from Walt Whitman for this intense imaginative score. 
  
  It certainly seemed to find the singers the most focused, especially in a long a cappella section on the lines “Ah from a little child, thou knowest soul how to me all sounds become music.”
  
  Here Sharpe, who was born in 1965, used close harmonies and striking chord changes in ways that were arresting.
  
  The rest of the piece was scored for soloists, including Rhode Island mezzo Gigi Mitchell-Velasco, who will be featured on the upcoming recording. Sharpe at least seemed completely comfortable with choral idioms, at least in comparison to an early effort by Pulitzer Prize winner John Corigliano, who was represented by a setting of Dylan Thomas’ bucolic reverie Fern Hill. There was something appealingly sweet about Corigliano’s take on Thomas’ lyrical verse, but his writing was rather static, two-dimensional.
  
  Sharpe on the other hand went in for lurching rhythms in a section about dance music, and found ways to use the voice in interesting and unusual ways. The final section paired the chorus and vocal quartet with the throbbing sounds of three bass violins.
  Channing Gray, The Providence Journal, March 4, 2007 (Full Review)

• Choral Journal, November 2004

• Still, the selections seemed apt for the times, especially with the inclusion of Carlyle Sharpe's impressive Proud Music of the Storm, a moving, inventive score using the words of Walt Whitman for its text. Sharpe, a classmate of Wachner's at Boston University, was asked by his old friend to write a piece to celebrate the Singers' 30th anniversary.
  
  At one point Whitman's verse refers to the "wounded groaning in agony . . . blackened ruins, the embers of cities." Add to that biting harmonies and some wonderful tunes, and you have a fine addition to the choral repertoire.
  Channing Gray, The Providence Journal, November 5, 2001 (Full Review)

• Before I leave this recording I must mention to those of you on the look out for music for brass and organ, that you should listen to Carlyle Sharpe’s Confitemini Domino. It needs very good brass players and a good organist, but it’s a great piece and would well reward the effort needed to do it justice. On this performance, the players certainly sell the piece. I recommend this especially and the whole disc for that matter.
  Peter Beaven, "Bravo Memphis!" Review Section - CDs Choral, Choir & Organ, London, England, November/December, 1998
  In Every Corner Sing - 20th Century Sacred Masterworks, Pro Organo CD 7034

• The second half of the concert opened with an undated but recent one-movement work by Carlyle Sharpe of Boston, which showed him to be a composer of considerable promise. Particularly notable are the skilled, creative ways he was able to marshal the large orchestral forces of which he made use.
  
  Titled "Native Moments," this fast-changing piece opens softly and builds to a surprisingly powerful climax. It has definite elements of impressionism, but other influences and styles commingle as well.
  Kyle MacMillan, Omaha World Herald, April 18, 1998

• Carlyle Sharpe’s Cello Sonata was perhaps old-fashioned in that it thought big, was expressively and idiomatically written for the two instruments, and was given to letting loose with the physicality and the Schwarmerei when it felt like it, but from the excellent Mark Simcox (cello) and Sandra Hebert (piano) it was urgent news, and you did want to hear what it had to say.
  Richard Buell, The Boston Globe, May 31, 1994

RECORDINGS 

• So Have I Loved You, Sing Me To Heaven, Drury Singers, Allin Sorenson, conductor, ©2006
  
  
• Laudate Nomen, I Thank You God, Pacific Lutheran University, Richard Nance, conductor, ©2005
  
  
• Laudate Nomen, My Redeemer Lives, Brigham Young University Singers, Ronald Staheli, director, ©2003
  
  
• Confitemini Domino for Brass Quintet and Organ, IN EVERY CORNER SING: 20th Century Sacred Masterworks, The Memphis Boychoir & The Memphis Chamber Choir, John Ayer, director, Diane Meredith Belcher, organ, with the Memphis Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, ©1998, Pro Organo CD 7034.

• Toccata for Organ, AUTHOR OF LIGHT–The Choir and Organs of the Episcopal Cathedral Church of Saint Paul, Boston, Massachusetts, Mark T. Engelhardt, Music Director and Organist, ©1994, Compact Disk SPC-1/Cathedral Church of Saint Paul.