Stanley Silverman

STANLEY SILVERMAN
Composer

The arts were not particularly well served in the public schools during the post World War II years I was enrolled. I remember vividly the singing cop from the 52nd precinct serenading the PS 80 assembly with Puccini in his uniform. If you were fortunate enough to have a family with artistic awareness, true particularly of immigrants, you could be exposed in a more meaningful way. Those of us who were fortunate enough to attend a “specialized” public high school would of course be privy to concentrating on the arts.

The arts in education really became a serious subject more recently. The existence of organizations such as The Center for Arts Education is proof of that. Over thirty years ago I became a founding board member of The Lincoln Center Institute for Arts in Education. I am still an active board member. Our mission is to train teachers through workshops, team them with teaching artist professionals, provide the repertoire to be studied which is introduced into the participating school’s curriculum, culminating with a visit by LIVE performers who perform the studied repertoire.

Consequently, my personal experience with the arts in education is happily a current and ongoing event.

For over 30 years STANLEY SILVERMAN has enjoyed a varied and rich career in both the classical and popular musical worlds, and in theatre and film. He has done a great deal of work On and Off-Broadway with such stage luminaries as ARTHUR MILLER, ANTHONY BURGESS and RICHARD FOREMAN, He was the conductor of the JOE PAPP/LINCOLN CENTER production of “THREEPENNY OPERA” and the director of the 1983 production of VIRGIL THOMSON’s “THE MOTHER OF US ALL”. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his orchestrations for PAUL SIMON’s musical “THE CAPEMAN”. SILVERMAN’s music also has been performed by PIERRE BOULEZ and the New York Philharmonic, RICHARD STOLZMANN, MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, JAMES TAYLOR, PAUL SIMON, and ELTON JOHN. His music has been performed at international festivals such as the Autumn Festivals of Paris and Madrid, the Stratford Festival of Canada, the RSC and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre of London, and the Delphi Festival of Greece. He was twice commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has received two Guggenheim Fellowships as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation. SILVERMAN was honored in 2004 by the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education.

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