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Sheila Silver has written in a wide range of mediums, from solo instrumental to large orchestral works, from opera to feature film scores. She is the recipient of numerous awards and commissions, including an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Composer Award, the Rome Prize, and the Prix de Paris, among many others. She is Professor Emeritas of Music at Stony Brook University. Her opera, A Thousand Splendid Suns, based on the novel by Khaled Hosseini, will be premiered by the Seattle Opera Company in 2022. This recording features song cycles including Beauty Intolerable, based on the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, and a cycle using fragments of texts from Sappho, along with a nocturne for solo piano. The stellar cast of performers includes Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish, Ryan McCullough, Stephanie Blythe, Kayo Iwama, Sidney Outlaw, Warren Jones, Deanne Meek, Christopher Cooley, Risa Renae Harman, and Timothy Long.
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Reviews
"... The music is just as rich and captivating as the texts that inspired it, and the splendid performances by this top-notch cast of artists are not a surprise..."
Stephanie Boyd – American Record Guide – September/October 2021
“… This is a recording that offers the happy marriage of first-rate music and performance; highly recommended.”
Ken Meltzer – Fanfare – September/October 2021
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