1. Stanley Silverman's work has featured on stages across the world including on and off-Broadway and his collaborators include Richard Foreman, Anthony Burgess and Arthur Miller.
21 Facts About Stanley Silverman
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Stanley Silverman has worked with renowned directors Mike Nichols and Arthur Penn.
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Stanley Silverman worked with Paul Simon on his musical The Capeman in 1998 for which his orchestrations were nominated for Tony and Drama Desk Awards.
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Stanley Silverman's music has been performed by Pierre Boulez, Michael Tilson Thomas, Tashi, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and pop icons James Taylor and Sting.
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Across a successful career as a conductor, Stanley Silverman worked on the Tony, Drama Desk and Grammy Award nominated 1976 Joseph Papp production of The Threepenny Opera which starred in the lead role Raul Julia.
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Stanley Silverman was born in New York City and is the son of Russian Jewish immigrants.
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Stanley Silverman grew up in the Bronx attending public school followed by the High School of Performing Arts before completing his BMus at Boston University and his MA in Music Composition at Mills College.
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At Tanglewood Stanley Silverman studied with Leon Kirchner and at Mills College with Kirchner and Darius Milhaud.
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Stanley Silverman played guitar at the Malboro Festival, the Ojai Festival and during this period worked with Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Lukas Foss and Gunther Schuller.
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Stanley Silverman taught at Tanglewood during the 1960s and in 1965 was appointed music director of The Lincoln Center Repertory Theater before joining Canada's Stratford Festival at the invitation of Glenn Gould.
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Stanley Silverman worked at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival extensively from 1967 when he composed music for John Hirsch's production of Richard III until 1994.
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In 1971 Stanley Silverman, along with Lyn Austin and Oliver Smith, was a founding member of the Lenox Arts Center, later the Music Theatre Group.
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Amongst a range of noteworthy collaborations, Stanley Silverman composed the incidental music for Arthur Miller's 1972 Broadway production of The Creation of the World and Other Business and worked with the playwright again on his only musical Up from Paradise which premiered at Miller's alma mater, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1973.
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In 1976, Stanley Silverman joined Joseph Papp's production of The Threepenny Opera as musical director.
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Stanley Silverman conceived and directed the 1986 music-theater piece Black Sea Follies at Playwrights Horizons.
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In recent years, Stanley Silverman has been a specialist consultant for Reveille TV, Electus Studios and NBC music Specials.
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Stanley Silverman was honored by the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education in 2004, having served for over thirty years as one of its founding board members.
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Hotel For Criminals by Richard Foreman and Stanley Silverman had its UK premiere in October 2016 at the New Wimbledon Studio directed by Patrick Kennedy.
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Stanley Silverman has been influenced by the works of Baroque composers Handel, Henry Purcell, Austrian expressionist Arnold Schoenberg, French guitarist Django Reinhardt, songwriters Rodgers and Hart, and Cuban charanga.
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In 1966, Stanley Silverman married former VP of BBC America and theatre and television producer and executive Mary Stanley Silverman ; the couple had one child, Ben, chairman and co-CEO of Propagate and former NBC co-chairman.
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In 1980 Stanley Silverman married Martha Caplin, a founding member and 1st Violin, Primavera Quartet and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.