“The Virgil Thomson Award Committee was struck by the strong personality and profile of the moving vocal work by Anna Weesner in My Mother in Love and Mother Tongues. Her originality set her apart.” —William Bolcom on Anna Weesner winning the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ 2018 Virgil Thomson Award in Vocal Music
“How often in today’s vocal music do we find ourselves surprised, truly touched by simple, unpredictably expressive music? In My Mother in Love . . . Anna Weesner reaches the listener uninsistently and indelibly from a fresh musical source as natural as it is mysterious.” ——May 23, 2018 Citation from American Academy of Arts and Letters