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

An Adjustment (2015)
for piano, chamber orchestra, and electronics

1a. breakable gaps
1b. awkward didact
2a. earnest build
2b. euphoria assault

(excerpts from sections 2a and 2b.)

Commissioned by Dirk Brossé, Music Director, and Janelle McCoy, Executive Director, for The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Underwriting for this commission is, in part, by The Presser Foundation, The Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia and The Archie W. and Grace Berry Foundation.

performed by Conrad Tao with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia conducted by Dirk Brossé
Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia
September 21, 2015

An Adjustment (2015) [excerpts]

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

"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

Transcription of Domenico Scarlatti's Keyboard Sonata K. 213 for Guitar

Initial

Scarlatti K. 213 (D minor)

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.

ANTIQUE VIOLENCES : Concerto for Trumpet
Movement 1
by John Mackey

MIDI Demo
Commissioned by Michigan State University and The American Bandmasters Association
To premiere March 2017, CBDNA convention, Kansas City. Justin Emerich, trumpet.

Four movements in total, each depicting a type of violence. This movement (movement 1), portrays military violence, and imagines if the Revolutionary War had been fought against... I don't know. Where is the music modal and in 13/8? Macedonia?

Score available here: ostimusic.com/pdf/Mvt1-SCORE.pdf

John Mackey: Antique Violences - Mvt 1 demo

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

Movers & Shakers was commissioned by the Mukwonago High School Arts Department (WI) in celebration of their new fine arts building. The title was extracted from a verse from Arthur O’Shaughnessy’s popular poem, “Ode.” The first line of the poem has even found its way into pop culture with a brief quote by the original Willy Wonka, Gene Wilder. I think the essence of the poem perfectly captures the idea of celebrating a a fine arts program such as Mukwonago High School that has been built from the ground up – not just by one person, but by its administration, staff, parents, and students. The piece features three of the school's ensemble coming together as one – the wind ensemble, string orchestra, and choir.

Movers & Shakers (wind ensemble/string orchestra/choir) - Nathan Daughtrey

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

The influence of Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian, and Malian rhythms is central to this work for three percussionists. Set in six interlinked movements, the work combines interpretations of ancient rhythmic patterns with aggressive bursts of energy and extended playing techniques. 

Unpitched South American percussion instruments and Chinese drums interplay with western, pitched percussion as the work moves through contrasting energetic rhythmic sections into eerie and suspenseful passages. 

Complex arrays of cross-rhythms give way to almost motionless passages of uneasiness. The uneasiness is extended by a shifting tonal centre. 

The title of the piece is taken from the final line of the haiku Year's End, by the Japanese poet Basho.


Pounding Fists

Adam B. Silverman

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