Video Information

• Choir: MidAtlantic Chamber Choir
• Piece: "Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought"
• Composer:  Steven R. Gerber
• Conductor:  jason c tramm
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Contemporary
• MidAtlantic Chamber Choir Personnel:
  Jason C. Tramm, Conductor
  
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  Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
  
  00:00-04:00 1. Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
  04:05-06:48 2. So...  moreMidAtlantic Chamber Choir Personnel:
  Jason C. Tramm, Conductor
  
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  Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
  
  00:00-04:00 1. Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
  04:05-06:48 2. Sonnet 129: Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame
  06:50-09:42 3. Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead
  09:43-12:27 4. Sonnet : Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye
  12:30-14:56 5. Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
  
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  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
  David Winkler, Producer
  Recorded: June 4, 2022
  Broadway Presbyterian Church (Manhattan)
  
  
  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 and deeply personal sound world. During his years as a graduate student at Princeton and throughout the 1970's, he wrote a number of stunning compositions, such as the a cappella choral works Dylan Thomas Settings and Illuminations (Rimbaud). Beginning in the early 1980s, he abandoned twelve-tone and atonal composition, with rare exceptions, and his music became much more tonal while still ...    less