Robert R. Reilly, in his book chapter on the music of Kenneth Fuchs, wrote in "Surprised by Beauty: A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music" (Ignatius Press; New edition, April 1, 2016): "Fuchs is an exemplar of the recovery of modern music." "There is little in contemporary music that is as directly expressive as the music of Kenneth Fuchs. It goes right to the heart and stays there. If you think America's song has already been sung, you need to listen to him." " "He is endowed with a major melodic gift." "Like Aaron Copland, Fuchs has a way of capturing the stirrings of the human heart and the yearnings of the soul in highly spirited, soaring music. His works carry within themselves an inimitably American sense of expectancy, of horizons glimpsed and striven for, and, finally, of boldly announced arrivals."