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)

"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 Yumi Kendall and Amy Sue Barston

Bela Bartok - Wedding Song and Ruthenian Koloweika

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
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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).

The Girl In The Hall

Seeing Double After Eye Surgery

Lightning Round

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

[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

"I echo you, we are repeated"
Composed by Adam Silverman (2002, arr. 2004)
Performed April 8th, 2009 by the Arizona State University Saxophone Ensemble, directed by Timothy McAllister.

Soprano I: Javier Ocampo, David Wegehaupt, Daniel Puccio
Soprano II: Annalise Stalls, Michelle Fisco
Alto: Patrick Murphy, Jonathan Saturay, Steven Stowe, Christopher Charbonneau
Tenor I: Alycia Carlson, Jeremy Ellens
Tenor II: Joseph Trahan, Daniel Emplaned
Baritone: Justin Marks, Gregory Mills

I echo you, we are repeated

Composed by Adam Silverman to a libretto by Susan Gubernat. Performed by the Opera Company of Brooklyn in May 2008.

[ 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 1, Scene 1

Korczak's Orphans  Prologue

"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)

THE HEDGEHOG'S DILEMMA for piano trio
Composed by Adam Silverman
Performed by James Stern (violin), Amy Sue Barston (cello) and Audrey Andrist (piano)
Recorded May 28, 2017 in Linehan Concert Hall at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Recorded and edited by Alan Wonneberger

The Hedgehog's Dilemma - II. Flowing delicately

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

Raining Bricks - MIDI demo

The Rule Of Five - mov. 5 - DEMO

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

Pittering/Pattering

Please Scream Inside Your Heart 
by Adam Silverman (2020)
for percussion quartet and electronic track
composed for and performed by The Green Vibes Project
accompaniment track by Adam Silverman with production and engineering by Alfred Goodrich at Silvertone Studios, Ardmore, PA

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