"...Maestro Schemmer's music also has the stylistic variety - cabaret, jazz, tango, blues, musicals, folk melodies, even strict sonata form, to keep an audience engaged and alternately amused and drawn in to nostalgia or poignancy for a whole evening."

- The Boston Musical Intelligencer

"...there is no doubt that Schemmer has a lot of talent - there is more invention and skill in any 30-minute section of "Phaust" than in the whole score of an assembly-line musical like 'Annie.'"

- The Boston Globe

"...rising to distinction..."

- Opera News

"...set pieces in this modern retelling of the first part of Goethe's 'Faust' made a considerable effect - the long gospel song...the tarty song about living and learning...the jagged and touching mad-song of Gretchen..."

- The Boston Globe