Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought: 1. Sonnet 30 (Steven R. Gerber)/MidAtlantic Ch...
Video Information
- Choir: MidAtlantic Chamber Choir
- Piece: Sonnet 30
- Composer: Steven R. Gerber
- Conductor: Jason C. Tramm
- Voices: SATB
- Genres: A cappella, Classical, Contemporary
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MidAtlantic Chamber Choir Personnel:
Jason C. Tramm, Conductor
Soprano
Paige Porter
Veronica Shea Salkin
Samantha Ferrara
Hillary Baboukis
Alto
Kimberlee Korzelius
Sophia Morte... moreMidAtlantic Chamber Choir Personnel:
Jason C. Tramm, Conductor
Soprano
Paige Porter
Veronica Shea Salkin
Samantha Ferrara
Hillary Baboukis
Alto
Kimberlee Korzelius
Sophia Mortensen
Irene Lyristakis
Tenor
Rider Foster
Zachary Morehouse
Jose Daniel Mojica
Charles Bryan
Kevin Courtemanche
Bass
Christian Arencibia
Peter Lamendola
Devin McGuire
Skyler Klein
Video/Audio Engineering: Quinton Tramm
Recorded: June 4, 2022
Broadway Presbyterian Church (Manhattan)
From Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
1. Sonnet 30
Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan th' expense of many a vanish'd sight;
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd, and sorrows end.
Steven R. Gerber, Biography (1948-2015)
Steven R. Gerber was born on September 28, 1948 in Washington, D.C. He held degrees from Haverford College and from Princeton University, where he received a 4-year fellowship. Steven's music composition teachers include Robert Parris, J. K. Randall, Earl Kim, and Milton Babbitt.
His early works were in a free atonal style, incorporating serial and non-twelve-tone languages into a distinctive a... less