Upcoming Performances

October 21, 7pm Bowers and Fader Eighth Annual New American Art Song

Tenri Cultural Institute

43 W 13th Street, NY

$20 Admission Cash Only at the door

Program:

Frank Brickle - Political Song, Song of a Fool, Sacred Song

Larry Nelson - Rider's Song

Kim Sherman - Saying Things That Have No Words from "The Vision"

Heather Gilligan - Hold Fast to Dreams

Justin Casinghino - For My Four

Douglas Boyce - Small Philosophies

Paul Salerni - Film Noir

Past Performances

May 8, 2023 The Clara Cycle at The Harvard Club featuring Allison Charney Epstein, Kelly Hall-Tompkins and Donna Weng Friedman.

The ARK TRIO has created their first recording, and I am very pleased to be a part of it. Not only are two of my compositions included on this album, but it is my debut as a recording producer, in collaboration with Allison Charney. My fellow composers Moshe Knoll and Michael Ching are also featured on this beautiful recording. The music on ARK RESOUNDING was composed and arranged for the ARK trio: Allison Charney, soprano, Kajsa William-Olsson, cello, and Reiko Uchida, piano. Released on February 3, 2023, “Ark Resounding” spent several weeks in the Number One spot on Amazon’s Hot New Releases (Classical.)

Still Waters in a Storm is a one-room schoolhouse, a reading and writing sanctuary for immigrant families in the neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn… and now also in Poughkeepsie, New York.

The structure of our meetings is the same in English, Spanish, Latin and Musical Notation: children and grown-ups study a text together, each writes something inspired by the text, then they take turns reading their writings out loud while everyone listens in a sacred hush.

The one rule is, “Everyone listens to everyone.”

The simple grace of this ritual changes lives for the better.

In June 2020, the kids of Still Waters in a Storm began translating Virgil’s The Æneid from Latin into Spanish and English. We all collaborated with The Animation Project to adapt the ancient Roman myth of refugee people fleeing their ruined homeland, sailing the seas in search of a new, safe home. Every child participated in the process — you can see the many different styles of drawing, with Latin, Spanish and English words embedded in the images, and hear the many home-made sound effects and multilingual spoken vocals, joined by the yearning voice of Jamie singing the song she co-wrote with Kim and Jonathan and Olivia. 

Additional videos can be found on the Still Waters website: https://www.stillwatersinastorm.org/videos/

Song of Songs from the April 17 concert at The Eldridge Street Museum

Invocation from the April 17 concert at The Eldridge Street Museum