June 21, 2009
World Premiere
Make Music NY 2009 - "The Voice of Brooklyn"
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY
Performed by Nicole Mitchell
Thomas Bagwell, conductor
July 12, 2009 Whitman Stroll
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY
Performed by Nicole Mitchell
Thomas Bagwell, conductor
July 17, 2009 Opera Grows in Brooklyn
Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Performed by Nicole Mitchell
Christopher Berg, conductor
December 12, 2009 Youth Academy for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
Performed by Nicole Mitchell
Christopher Berg, conductor
December 18, 2009 AOP Holiday Party
Home of Richard Norton, Brooklyn, NY
Performed by Nicole Mitchell
Christopher Berg, conductor
December 29, 2009 Kwanzaa Celebration
Brooklyn Public Library (Main Branch at Grand Army Plaza), Brooklyn, NY
Performed by Nicole Mitchell
Thomas Bagwell, conductor
February 11, 2010 Satellite East Middle School
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY
Performed by Nicole Mitchell
Christopher Berg, conductor
February 18, 2010 Concerts at One
Trinity Church, New York, NY
Performed by Adrienne Danrich
April 16, 2010 Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
New York, NY
Performed by Nicole Mitchell
Thomas Bagwell, conductor
May 11, 2010 Cave Canem
Phat Phun Tuesday: Poetry & Opera
20 Jay Street, Suite 310-A, Brooklyn NY
Performed by Nicole Mitchell
Thomas Bagwell, conductor
The first commissioned work of IHAS, "Songs from the F Train" is a setting of poems by three Brooklyn schoolgirls - Samori Covington (age 9), Alexis Cummings, and Najaya Royal (both age 12). The poems were written in a poetry workshop led by Brooklyn writer Angeli Rasbury in Fort Greene Park.
Songs from the F Train is a co-commission from AOP, Fort Greene Park Conservancy and The Walt Whitman Project.
Songs From the F Train (2009)
Composed by Gilda Lyons
for piano and mezzo-soprano "I'm Smart "- Alexis Cummings
"I'm From the Ghetto Brooklyn" - Najaya Royal
"When Randa Wears Red" - Samori Covington
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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...
Many of American Opera Projects' past works are ideal for production by other companies. If you are a producer and see something that is of interest to you, please contact us. We will be happy to send materials, or put you in direct contact with the creators.
GILDA LYONS (composer)
