PHOTO CAPTION: Edna St. Vincent Millay received a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry in 1923. She wrote for 4 hours each day, recording her thoughts, desires and loves – found loves, lost loves, even historical loves. Inspired by Millay’s writing, award winning composer Sheila Silver has put together Beauty Intolerable – A Songbook. The world [...]
PHOTO CAPTION: Guggenheim recipient and award- winning composer Sheila Silver(left) has created a songbook based upon the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Beauty Intolerable, developed with the support of American Opera Projects, the Millay Society, ClaverackLanding and Symphony Space, will have its world premiere on Saturday, June 8th at 6 pm. The presentation, with [...]
PHOTO CAPTION: Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (Vincent to her friends) toured America during the Depression reading her work at sold out stadiums including the Hollywood Bowl and on nationwide radio broadcasts. On Saturday, June 8th, ClaverackLanding is presenting the world premiere of Sheila Silver’s “Beauty Intolerable”, a songbook of 15 songs based on Millay’s [...]
CAPTION: Lincoln Mayorga (tuxedo) spent most of his life composing, conducting and arranging music in Hollywood – soundtracks, TV scores, pop and rock-n-roll. Names like Johnny Mathis and Disney Studios show up on his resume. Arnold Steinhardt (sweater) took the multi-cultural exposure of his childhood in LA to heart. He co-founded The Guarneri String [...]
PHOTO CAPTION: Lincoln Mayorga (left) was staff pianist for Walt Disney Studios and contributed to the soundtracks of such motion pictures as “Chinatown”, The Competition” and “Ragtime.” Arnold Steinhardt (right) was a founding member of the internationally acclaimed Guarneri String Quartet – recipients of dozens of awards for excellence in string playing. ClaverackLanding is presenting [...]
by John Paul Keeler for Hudson-Catskill Newspapers ClaverackLanding brought young musicians from the Bard College Conservatory of Music to perform two quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) along with readings by poet Kate Light on both Mozart and Albert Einstein (1879-1955) titled “Two Geniuses” at the Presbyterian Church. Kate Light read with delight her words [...]
PHOTO CAPTION: Students at The Bard Conservatory of Music will be playing Mozart’s String Quartet in D major, K575, at an upcoming presentation by ClaverackLanding. The evening, with original poetry by Kate Light, is called Einstein’s Mozart: Two Geniuses – a Bard at the Landing presentation. Pictured here (from left) are Scot Moore – violin, [...]
PHOTO CAPTION: Kate Light, a librettist, lyricist and poet will be performing her original work, Einstein’s Mozart: Two Geniuses, in conjunction with Bard at the Landing – part of ClaverackLanding’s spring chamber music series. This presentation includes two of Mozart’s string quartets interspersed with poetry and readings linking the life of the composer to that [...]
PHOTO CAPTION: Albert Einstein is half of the brilliant combination that inspired poet, librettist and lyricist Kate Light to create her music and poetry compilation Einstein’s Mozart: Two Geniuses. On Saturday, April 13th, Light will read her poetry and act as historical narrator while students of the Bard College Conservatory of Music play string quartets [...]
PHOTO CAPTION: Tift Merritt (l) a folk singer/song writer who has often been compared to Joni Mitchell and Emmylou Harris, is joining Simone Dinnerstein (r), arguably the best-selling classical pianist of the past three years, in a concert debuting their new CD Night. The concert, presented by ClaverackLanding, takes place at Club Helsinki, Hudson, on [...]
