Celebrating the Music of Sheila Silver
by on January 27, 2018 in featured

 

 

 

Join us for this retrospective concert at NYC’s Merkin Hall at 7:30pm on Thursday Feb. 8, 2018.  A preview concert will take place at Stony Brook’s Staller Center at 8:00pm the night before on Wednesday, February 7.  Lots of amazing performers and music from the last 25 years.  Presented by the Music Department at Stony Brook University.  Tickets for the Stony Brook concert are free.  Merkin tickets are $25 General Admission and $10 for students.

For tickets and more info click here to Merkin Hall.

PROGRAM

To the Spirit Unconquered (1992)

Trio de Novo:  Brian Bak, violin, Phuc Phan,  cello, Hsin-Chiao Liao, piano

Life is Always Changing  aria from The Wooden Sword (2010)
Thursday from Beauty Intolerable, A Songbook based on the poetry of Edna St.Vincent Millay (2013)

Risa Renae Harman, soprano
Timothy Long, piano

 Laila and Tarik Love Music from A Thousand Splendid Suns (2016)

Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano, Ian McEuen, tenor
Ryan McCullough, piano, Brian Bak, violin, Phuc Phan, cello

On Loving, Three Songs in Memory of Diane Kalish  (2015)

Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Gilbert Kalish, piano

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Subway Sunset (2000)

Gili Sharret, bassoon
Arielle Levioff, piano
Video by John Feldman

 Twilight’s Last Gleaming (2007) (two pianos and percussion)

Gilbert Kalish and Christina Dahl, pianos
Eduardo Leandro and Brian Smith, percussion

A reception for all will follow the concert.

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