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)

"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

III. Whale Song

I. Migration Of Millions

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 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

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

Performed by Amy Sue Barston

J.S. Bach - Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1

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

3 Talking to the Family

2 You Round the Bend

1 Spiritual

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
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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).

Autopsy In The Form Of An Elegy

The Girl In The Hall

Losing A Voice In Summer

Seeing Double After Eye Surgery

Talking To The Family

You Round The Bend

Spiritual

Lightning Round

"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

"Alternating Current"
Composed by Adam Silverman
Timothy McAllister, alto saxophone; The West Chester University Wind Ensemble (Andrew Yozviak, conductor)

Alternating Current IV. Re/charge

Alternating Current I. Shocks and Sparks

Korczak's Orphans  Prologue

"Alternating Current" concerto for alto saxophone and wind ensemble. 
Movement 4: "Re/charge"

Composed 2011 by Adam B. Silverman.
Live recording from the Florida State Wind Orchestra (Richard Clary, conductor; Scotty Phillips, saxophone) November 18, 2015.

"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

Performed in 2000 by the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra (Stefan Asbury, conductor)

Hard Knocks

Hard Knocks (orchestra)

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.

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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

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

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