The music of I Hear America Singing
AOP Presentations
June 21, 2010
Preview performance
Make Music NY 2010 - "The Voice of Brooklyn"
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY
Performed by Nicole Mitchell
Thomas Bagwell, conductor
July 9, 2010
Opera Grows in Brooklyn
Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Performed by Nicole Mitchell
Kelly Horsted, conductor
July 19, 2010
Dweck Auditorium
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
Performed by Nicole Mitchell
Kelly Horsted, conductor
The second commissioned work of IHAS,
"Songs from the A Train" is a setting of poems by three Brooklyn boys - Keanu Stowe (age 6), Tristan Regist (age 10), and Tyler Forsythe (age 12). The poems were written in poetry workshops led by Brooklyn writer Angeli Rasbury.
Songs from the A Train is a co-commission from AOP and The Walt Whitman Project.
Songs From The A Train (2010)
Composed by Gilda Lyons
for piano and mezzo-soprano
"Sometimes i get tired of Brooklyn"- Keanu Stowe
"A Billionaire" - Tyler Forsythe
"Mama is so jazz" - Tristan Regist
About the Creators
GILDA LYONS (composer)
Gilda Lyons is a composer, performer, and visual artist, is a frequent recitalist, performing both her own vocal works and those of other living composers. The 2009/10 season includes her multi-media performance collaboration with Anonymous 4's Ruth Cunningham, the powerfully expressive mezzo Elaine Valby, and video-artist Holen Kahn, as well as new works for violinist Anthea Kreston, the Finisterra Piano Trio, and the Seasons Festival Chamber Orchestra, among others. She will return as Composer-in-Residence to The Season's Music Festival in Washington State where she served as Visiting Artist in fall of 08; she serves as Visiting Artist for the Wintergreen Summer Music Academy in Summer 09.
Recent works include: Colette's Heirlooms, for treble voices, commissioned by The ASCAP Foundation / Charles Kingsford Fund and Nahuatl Hymn to the All-Mother for treble choir. Her one-act opera The Walled-Up Wife was presented in workshop performance by American Opera Projects in spring of 2007. Ms. Lyons made her professional debut as composer and vocalist with the American Symphony Chamber Orchestra in 1997, performing the world premiere of her orchestral song cycle Feis. She received her Ph.D. in Music Composition from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Bard College. READ MORE...
