Mario Gullo is a Composer / Singer based in New York City.
Anti-Love Songs Review
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Anti-Love Songs Review 〰️
“Gullo’s bright, smart music balances modern savvy and timeless optimism. He is a skilled, sophisticated composer: he can evoke styles and traditions – narratives, dialogues, duets; jazzy cool, show-tune glamor – with easy economy. Even when working with familiar stories, he avoids clichés; he has the intellectual wherewithal to ensure that send-ups of absurdities don’t devolve into silliness. The … singers, including those with ‘solo’ turns, clearly relished singing their … material” – Jean Ballard Terepka.
Meditation for Christmas Reviews
“Gloria is a shiny and exuberant presentation of God’s glory and the hope for peace on earth; periodically, some chords and brief melodic lines call up the mystery of divinity, but then a quick-step dance rhythm and a modern sense of fun – God’s capacity for play and delight – reclaim the theology of praise.”
“Gullo’s O Oriens. This piece is steady and leisurely and then inevitably crescendos from evocatively penumbral quiet to lush, splendid sunlit exuberance; it is also a perfect match of composer and choir, writer and singers perfectly attuned to each other.” - Theaterscene.net