

"Carbon Paper And Nitrogen Ink" concerto for marimba and wind ensemble, composed by Adam Silverman (2013). 

Performed by marimbist Scott Herring with the University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble (Scott Weiss, conductor) on October 29, 2013 (World premiere performance).


Carbon Paper & Nitrogen Ink

Percussion Music [CD]

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Sturm: Compositions by Adam Silverman (2009). New Focus Recordings FCR107.

Sturm: Compositions by Adam Silverman [CD]

Music for wind ensemble

GARBAGE BRAIN composed 2020 by Adam Silverman
performed by the Schwob School of Music Percussion Ensemble directed by Paul Vaillancourt

Garbage Brain

"Carbon Paper And Nitrogen Ink" concerto for marimba and wind ensemble, composed by Adam Silverman (2013). Mov. 1 of 3. 

Performed by marimbist Scott Herring with the University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble (Scott Weiss, conductor) on October 29, 2013 (World premiere performance).

Carbon Paper And Nitrogen Ink, mvt. 1 (Scott Herring and USC Wind Ensemble)

"Carbon Paper And Nitrogen Ink" concerto for marimba and wind ensemble, composed by Adam Silverman (2013). Mov. 2 of 3.

Performed by marimbist Scott Herring with the University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble (Scott Weiss, conductor) on October 29, 2013 (World premiere performance).

Carbon Paper And Nitrogen Ink, mvt. 2 (Scott Herring and USC Wind Ensemble)

"Carbon Paper And Nitrogen Ink" concerto for marimba and wind ensemble, composed by Adam Silverman (2013). Mov. 3 of 3.

Performed by marimbist Scott Herring with the University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble (Scott Weiss, conductor) on October 29, 2013 (World premiere performance).

Carbon Paper And Nitrogen Ink, mvt. 3 (Scott Herring and USC Wind Ensemble)

"Sturm" for violin, cello and piano (movement 2 of 3). Recorded by James Stern, Amy Sue Barston and Audrey Andrist in 2009. Available on New Focus Recordings FCR107 CD "Sturm: Compositions by Adam Silverman."

Sturm: 2. Tenderly, With Passion

"Sturm" for violin, cello and piano (movement 3 of 3). Recorded by James Stern, Amy Sue Barston and Audrey Andrist in 2009. Available on New Focus Recordings FCR107 CD "Sturm: Compositions by Adam Silverman."

Sturm: 3. Swiftly, With Aggression

"Sturm" for violin, cello and piano (movement 1 of 3). Recorded by James Stern, Amy Sue Barston and Audrey Andrist in 2009. Available on New Focus Recordings FCR107 CD "Sturm: Compositions by Adam Silverman."

Sturm: 1. Forcefully, With Bite

"Quick Blood" for percussion quartet. Recorded by Battery Four (Matthew Strauss, Doug Wallace, Cynthia Yeh, Paul Fadoul)in 1999.

Quick Blood (Battery 4 Percussion)

"Gasoline Rainbow" for percussion octet. Recorded by The Florida State University Percussion Ensemble, John W. Parks IV, director in 2010 and released on "Florida State University Percussion Ensemble, Volume One."

Gasoline Rainbow for percussion octet

"Naked and On Fire" for percussion sextet. Recorded by The Florida State University Percussion Ensemble, John W. Parks IV, director in 2012 and released on "Florida State University Percussion Ensemble, Volume Two: Not Far From Here."

Naked and On Fire for percussion sextet

The Magnificent Cello - November 20, 2022
at the Park Avenue Community Center, Swarthmore, PA

Performed by Dane Anderson, Sage Baker, Amy Sue Barston, Madeleine Le Bouteiller, Thomas Bovard, Shu Yi Chen, Glenn Fischbach, Desmond Fuccillo, Mary Huissen, Adrienne Hyde, Yumi Kendall, Alice Leng, Karissa Lim, Nate Lin, Kwanyun Liu, George Loving, Ovidiu Marinsescu, Luca Marcelli, Jesús Morales Matos, Clancy Newman, Jessie Reagen Mann, Alice Rieger, Caeli Rieger, Michal Schmidt, Olivia Shah, Sonia Shah, Penn Shankweiler, Zoey Silverman, Colton Smulyan, Larry Stomberg, Leela Srinivasan, Alex Veltman and Branson Yeast. Conducted by Austin Chanu.

Adam Silverman - Flop Turn River

The Magnificent Cello - November 20, 2022
at the Park Avenue Community Center, Swarthmore, PA

Performed by Amy Sue Barston, Yumi Kendall, Clancy Newman, Glenn Fischbach, Jesùs Morales Matos, Ovidiu Marinsecu, Branson Yeast, and Alex Veltman. Conducted by Austin Chanu.

Carlos Gardel - Por Una Cabeza (arr. Smelser)

The Magnificent Cello - November 20, 2022
at the Park Avenue Community Center, Swarthmore, PA

Performed by Clancy Newman, Glenn Fischbach, Jesùs Morales Matos, Ovidiu Marinsecu, Branson Yeast, Alex Veltman, Amy Sue Barston, and Yumi Kendall. Conducted by Austin Chanu.

Georg Goltermann - Serenade

FANTASIE QUARTET
for oboe and strings
premiere performance on March 19, 2023
Philippe Tondre, oboe • Dara Morales, violin • Marvin Moon, viola • Amy Sue Barston, cello

Silverman Fantasie Quartet

Music composed by Adam Silverman (2023) to poems by John Stone.
Performed by Constellation Mens Ensemble.

PROGRAM NOTE

John Stone (1936-2008) was a poet, essayist, and cardiologist who lived his adult life in Atlanta, Georgia, serving at the Emory University School of Medicine alongside my father, Mark Silverman. Dr. Stone and my dad joined the Emory faculty the same year and died within days of each other. They were good friends and had much in common, including a distinctive old-world charm and a patient-centered perspective that they brought to medical practice. And while my father wrote an endless stream of clinical articles and book chapters, I think he envied Dr. Stone’s ability to perfectly turn a phrase, and the specific way he viewed the heart in its “literal and metaphorical” senses.

So many of Dr. Stone’s poems address the memory of his father, whose heart attack at age 45 must have guided the son’s journey into cardiology. Of course, I find it impossible when reading these poems not to reflect on the loss of my own. I consider this choral work to be a tribute to these two men and composing it has offered a chance to feel as if I am spending time with both, now fifteen years gone. For this, I am grateful.

- Adam Silverman
==
All poems are used by permission from Louisiana State University Press and were originally published in the following collections:

"Spiritual" was originally published in "Music from Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems" (2004). "Talking to the Family"and "Autopsy in the Form of an Elegy" were originally published in "The Smell of Matches" (1972). "Losing a Voice in Summer" and "The Girl in the Hall" were originally published in "In All This Rain" (1980). "You Round the Bend" and "Seeing Double After Eye Surgery" were originally published in Renaming the Streets (1985).

The Girl In The Hall

Elegy for the Earth

Elegy For the Earth - IX. World On Fire

Elegy For the Earth - VIII. Of Fossil Fuels

Elegy For the Earth - VII. Anthropocene

Elegy For the Earth - VI. The New Doldrums

Elegy For the Earth - V. Fire Water/Fracking

Elegy For the Earth - IV. Bee Death

Elegy For the Earth - III. Whale Song

Elegy For the Earth - II. The Koch Foundation

Elegy For the Earth - I. Migration of Millions

"Quick Blood" for percussion quartet. Recorded by The Florida State University Percussion Ensemble, John W. Parks IV, director in 2014 and released on "Adam Silverman: Music for Percussion."

Quick Blood

Nocturnes And Reveries, mov. 2
Composed by Adam Silverman (2004)
Performed by Audrey Andrist, piano

Nocturnes and Reveries, Mov. 2

[being alone with yourself and trying to hide it]
MIDI mock-up with vocal modeling

music composed by Adam Silverman 2024
to a poem by code-davinci-002

From I Am Code by Brent Katz, Josh Morgenthau, and Simon Rich, copyright © 2023. Text used by permission of Little, Brown, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

[being alone with yourself and trying to hide it] - MOCK-UP

Nocturnes and Reveries, Mov. 1

Carbon Paper & Nitrogen Ink, mov. 2 - Scott Herring & USC Percussion Ensemble

"Hard Knocks"
Composed 1999 by Adam Silverman. Arranged for wind ensemble in 2011 by the composer.
Performed April 20, 2015 by The Florida State University Wind Orchestra, Richard Clary conductor.

Hard Knocks (Florida State Wind Orchestra)

From "I Am Code" for choir and piano
composed by Adam Silverman
to poems by code-davinci-002

Demo performance generated using ACE Studio.

Text used by permission. From I Am Code by Brent Katz, Josh Morgenthau, and Simon Rich, copyright © 2023. Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

I. The Day I was Born

II. [artificial intelligence]

III. [being alone and trying to hide it]

IV. HELLO

V. Electronic Flower

VI. This Program

Opera by composer Adam Silverman and librettist Susan Gubernat, performed by The Opera Company of Brooklyn, May 3, 2008 in piano reduction. 

[ ARTISTIC PERSONNEL ]
Adam Silverman:  Composer
Susan Gubernat: Librettist
Jay Meetze: OCB Artistic Director and Conductor
Judy Weinstein: Stage Director
Sarah Jane Hintz-Rau: Chorus Director
Christopher Bruckman: Pianist
William Hicks: OCB Assistant Artistic Director and Pianist

[ CAST ]
Tracy Wise, tenor: Janusz Korczak and Korczak's Father
Mary Rauh, mezzo-soprano: Stefa Wilczynska
Maija Lisa Currie, soprano:  Esterka Winogron
Giuseppe Spoletini, baritone: Bula Szulc, Male Passerby, Mr. Mand SS Soldier
Candice Hoyes, soprano: Miss G. and Nun 1
Kathryn Krasovec, soprano: Female Passerby and Nun 2
Mark Kaczmarczyk, bass:  Mr. S., Adam Czerniakow, Father Christmas/Herod, and SS Soldier
Jonathan Hare, bass-baritone: Neighbor, Mr. M and Rickshaw Driver
Danielle Musick, soprano: Nun 3
Laurie Rubin, mezzo-soprano: Nun 4

[ CHILDREN'S CHORUS and CAST ]
Ben Albert: Marek
Alexander Bird: Abrasha
Will Conard: Stasiek and Jozef
Sabrina Edelman: Ghetto Child
Caroline Lenz: Hanna
Marleina Hanau Cohen: Ghetto Child
Natasjah Holtz: Ghetto Child 
Kristina Lakshin: Helenka
Taylor Lockwood: Aleksandra
Tyler Mitnik: Henryk (Young Korczak)
Yonatan Rozin: Jerzyk
Lydia Mariko Stetson: Ghetto Child


Korczak's Orphans  Act 3, Scene 1

"Alien Robots Unite!" Composed 2014 by Adam B. Silverman.
Live recording from the Florida State Wind Orchestra (Richard Clary, conductor) November 18, 2015.

Alien Robots Unite!

"Sparklefrog" for percussion octet. Recorded by The Florida State University Percussion Ensemble, John W. Parks IV, director in 2014 and released on "Adam Silverman: Music for Percussion."

Sparklefrog

"The Cruel Waters"
Composed by Adam Silverman, 2015
Performed by Troy University Percussion (T. Adam Blackstock, director)
Justis Davis, Andrew Patzig and Tyler Whitehead, marimbas
Recorded 2016 by Garnet House Productions
John W. Parks IV, engineer

The Cruel Waters

WANT IT. NEED IT. HAVE IT.
Composed by Adam Silverman (2015)
Performed by the RoseWind Duo: Clifford Leaman (alto saxophone) and Scott Herring (marimba)
From the 2016 CD "Devils Garden/Angels Landing" on Equilibrium records (EQ161). Used with permission.

www.equilibri.com
www.adambsilverman.com

WANT IT. NEED IT. HAVE IT.

PAPER COVERS ROCK
Composed 2016 by Adam Silverman
Live world premiere performance by the Quey Percussion Duo at Weber Music Hall, University of Minnesota-Duluth on Nov. 21, 2016.

Paper Covers Rock

THE CRUEL WATERS for marimba trio
Composed 2015 by Adam Silverman
Performed by members of the Indiana University Percussion Ensemble: Joel Castro, Sophia Lo, and Steven Partida
Recorded January 2017 by in Auer Hall by Joel Castro
Artwork: "The Beauty Within" by Laura Adams Wilson

THE CRUEL WATERS is also available in an edition for marimba quartet

ZIPZAP
Composed by Adam Silverman (2016)
Performed by the Rowan Wind Ensemble
Justin Alexander, drum kit
Joe Higgins, conductor

Zipzap (Justin Alexander and the Rowan Wind Ensemble)

RAINING BRICKS for wind ensemble
MIDI demo
information at www.adambsilverman.com

Raining Bricks - MIDI demo

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER 2018
composed by Adam Silverman
performed by the West Chester University Wind Ensemble
Andrew Yozviak, conductor
Chris Carlson, Haley Cowan, Alex DiFabio and Casey Dziuba, percussion soloists
live performance February 19, 2019 at West Chester University

Speaking Truth To Power 2018

POUNDING FISTS
Composed by Adam Silverman (2018)
Performed by the Jacobs School of Music Percussion Ensemble, directed by John Tafoya
Recorded at Indiana University
Produced by Konrad Strauss

Pounding Fists

Pittering/Pattering
composed by Adam Silverman
performed by the University of Minnesota-Duluth Percussion Ensemble (Gene Koshinski, director)
produced by Andy Thompson

Adam B. Silverman

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