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The composer's best-known work, Peter Boyer's "Ellis Island: The Dream of America" was nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition in the 48th Annual GRAMMY® Awards (2005).

This work for actors and orchestra (and projected images in live performance), which celebrates the early 20th-century American immigrant experience, was commissioned by The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, and premiered there in 2002 by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra under Boyer's direction, along with a cast of New York actors directed by Martin Charnin. Since then, the work has received nearly 150 performances by 65 different orchestras, making it one of the most-performed American orchestral works composed in the last decade. In 2010, The League of American Orchestras' Symphony magazine profiled "Ellis Island" as one of "a handful of recent works by living composers becoming orchestral standards."

The Philharmonia Orchestra was recorded at London's AIR Studios, and the cast of renowned actors was recorded in New York City.

This track contains the words of Lazarus Salamon, one of the seven real-life Ellis Island immigrants whose stories are told in Boyer's work. The composer chose the words from the first-person accounts contained in the Ellis Island Oral History Project. These words of Salamon, who immigrated from Hungary to the United States in 1920, are read by renowned stage and screen actor Eli Wallach.

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Ellis Island: The Dream of America

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Ellis Island: The Dream of America – Words of Lazarus Salamon – Eli Wallach/ Philharmonia Orch/Boyer

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The works of GRAMMY®-nominated composer Peter Boyer have received over 400 public performances by nearly 150 orchestras, and thousands of broadcasts on classical radio stations around the U.S. and abroad. He has conducted recordings of his music with three of the world's finest orchestras: the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Philharmonia Orchestra. His works have appeared on the Naxos American Classics, BSO Classics, Koch International Classics, Albany Records, FWSO Live, and Propulsive Music labels.

Conductor Keith Lockhart chose Boyer for the Boston Pops’ 125th anniversary commission honoring the legacy of John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy. The premiere of Boyer’s "Kennedy Brothers" in 2010, narrated by Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Ed Harris, was attended by members of the Kennedy family, and received extensive national media attention. The Boston Pops also performed the work on their Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular for an audience of over 750,000; gave it two separate telecasts; performed it at Tanglewood with narrator Alec Baldwin; and released its recording.

Boyer’s major work "Ellis Island: The Dream of America" has received over 160 live performances by 70 different orchestras, making it one of the most-performed American orchestral works of the last decade. His recording on the Naxos label was nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

In addition to his work for the concert hall, Boyer is active in the film and television music industry. He has contributed orchestrations to more than 30 film scores by top Hollywood composers, including "Finding Dory" and "Skyfall" (composer Thomas Newman), "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2" (composer James Newton Howard), "The Amazing Spider-Man" (composer James Horner), "Jurassic World," "Inside Out," the Oscar-winning "Up," "Star Trek," "Mission: Impossible III," "John Carter," "Super 8," "Cars 2" (composer Michael Giacchino), "Dolphin Tale" (composer Mark Isham) and "Arthur Christmas" (composer Harry Gregson-Williams). Boyer has twice arranged music for the Academy Awards, and composed music for The History Channel; his music has appeared in the AETN Production Music Library, several short films, and various television programs.

In recent seasons, Boyer has served as Composer-in-Residence of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (2010-11) and the Pasadena Symphony (2012-13). He holds the Helen M. Smith Chair in Music at Claremont Graduate University.  His latest commercial recording, featuring his Symphony No. 1 and other works with the LPO, was released worldwide by Naxos in 2014.


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Ellis Island: The Dream of America – Words of Lazarus Salamon – Eli Wallach/ Philharmonia Orch/Boyer

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