Stanley Silverman (born July 5, 1938, in

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) is an American composer, arranger, conductor and guitarist. Silverman's diverse career covers music theatre, film, television, classical and pop music. His work has featured on stages across the world including on and off-Broadway and his collaborators include

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and

Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are ''All My Sons'' (1947), '' Death of a Salesman'' (1 ...

. He has also worked with renowned directors

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and

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. Silverman worked with Paul Simon on his musical ''The Capeman'' in 1998 for which his orchestrations were nominated for Tony and Drama Desk Awards. His music has been performed by Pierre Boulez,

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, Tashi, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and pop icons

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and Sting. Across a successful career as a conductor, Silverman worked on the Tony, Drama Desk and Grammy Award nominated 1976

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production of ''

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'' which starred in the lead role

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Early life

Stanley Silverman was born in

and is the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. Silverman grew up in the

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attending public school followed by the High School of Performing Arts before completing his

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and his MA in Music Composition at

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. At

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Silverman studied with

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and at

with Kirchner and Darius Milhaud. Silverman's ''Tenso: Afternoon Music For Orchestra'', composed for a

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concert premiered in 1962 for President

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. As a young man Silverman played guitar in a western swing band and developed an interest in

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music which took him to the Brussels World Fair playing with his college jazz quintet. Upon graduating Silverman became a regular concert guitarist and worked with the

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, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Silverman also played guitar at the Malboro Festival, the Ojai Festival and during this period worked with Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez,

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and

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. As a young guitarist Silverman specialized in new music performing and recording many premieres. Following work as guitarist, Silverman concentrated on his career as a composer and was part of Charles Wuorinen's New York composer-performer group, The Group for Contemporary Music.

Career

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

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. He worked at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival extensively from 1967 when he composed music for

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's production of Richard III until 1994. His career at the Festival was celebrated in a one-off concert in 2013 called ''Celebrating Stanley'' which covered the diverse range of material he had composed over almost three decades for the Festival. In 1971 Silverman, along with Lyn Austin and Oliver Smith, was a founding member of the Lenox Arts Center, later the Music Theatre Group. Amongst a range of noteworthy collaborations, Silverman composed the incidental music for

's 1972

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production of

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and worked with the playwright again on his only musical '' Up from Paradise'' which premiered at Miller's alma mater, the

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in Ann Arbor in 1973. A recent production took place under the direction of Patrick Kennedy at the

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, London in 2014. In 1976, Silverman joined

's production of ''The Threepenny Opera'' as musical director. The show premiered at the Vivian Beaumont Theater under the direction of

. Of Silverman's musical direction,

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said, "''This is strong, intelligent music-making, and it clarifies, more than any version I have heard live or on records, the stature of this dazzling score.''" The production received critical acclaim and went on to earn Tony, Drama Desk and Grammy Award nominations. During the 1980s, Silverman enjoyed a brief and successful directing career including an Obie award winning production of the

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and

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opera,

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in 1983. He also conceived and directed the 1986 music-theater piece ''Black Sea Follies'' at

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Aside from his involvement with theatre, Silverman has worked with several musicians as an arranger including a Grammy award-winning collaboration with

on Hourglass. In recent years, Silverman has been a specialist consultant for Reveille TV, Electus Studios and NBC music Specials. 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.

Recent activity

''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. The show garnered positive reviews from critics, including British Theatre's ''Critics Choice 2016'', in particular for Silverman's score: ''"The music is immensely more tuneful and memorable than the great majority of scores currently to be heard in the commercial scene."'' ''"The score is filled with rich vocal harmonies and elegant melodies dappled amongst chromatic recitative and horror film discordance."'' ''"Silverman’s score is a rich combination of haunting, discordant phrases and sumptuous melodies that reflect the other-worldliness of the narrative."'' ''"Stanley Silverman’s score is beautiful, enigmatic and embraces the show’s disjointed narrative with its smooth and impressive melodies."'' On 26 February 2017 BBC Radio 3 broadcast Anthony Burgess's

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with Silverman's score. It was rebroadcast on 19 May 2019. On January 12, Sting recorded the vocals for ''Fear No More'' composed by Silverman performed by the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson trio.

Collaborations with Richard Foreman

In 1968 Silverman began collaborating with playwright/director

resulting in several works of music-theatre. Their first collaboration was ''Elephant Steps'' which premiered at Tanglewood in 1968 with the New York Magazine calling it ''"The best piece of new music I've heard in concert all year."'' A musical recording of the same name was released on LP by Columbia Records in 1974. "A mere

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expert cannot judge the quality of the 'classical' music herein contained, although he can mention that he does not intend to investigate it further", wrote rock critic Robert Christgau in '' Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies'' (1981). "The 'rock,' however, was apparently concocted by

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's heir covert and the pit band from the Oslo production of Hair. And any English major can see through the ' libretto.'" Other collaborations include ''Dream Tantras For Western Massachusetts'', ''Hotel For Criminals'', ''Madame Adare'', ''The American Imagination'', ''Africanus Instructus'', ''Love & Science'' and ''Dr Selavy's Magic Theatre'' which led to the New York Times describing Silverman as "''the brightest talent in this medium to come along since Leonard Bernstein... he could turn out to be the later day Cole Porter.''"

Influences

Silverman has been influenced by the works of Baroque composers Handel, Henry Purcell, Austrian

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Arnold Schoenberg, French guitarist

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, songwriters

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, and

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80th birthday celebrations

To celebrate Silverman's 80th birthday on July 5, several concerts and productions are being staged around the world in 2018/9. * 4–5 July 2018 –

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, Lenox, Massachusetts ''Private birthday celebration hosted by

and Kim Taylor'' * 23 July 2018 – Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Ontario, Canada ''Songs from Up From Paradise, Book & Lyrics by

'' * 20–22 August 2018 – Grimeborn Festival, Arcola Theatre, London, UK ''Elephant Steps (opera), Libretto by

''. ''50th anniversary production directed by Patrick Kennedy'' * 10 September 2018 - Belo Horizonte,

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''Six Saudades do Brasil for String Quartet'' (Premiere) ''Guignard Quartet'' * 25 October 2018 -

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American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra to Honor Stanley Silverman. The Israel Philharmonic will perform a program including works composed by Stanley Silverman. * Late 2019 – ALBUM, In Celebration, Trio No.1 – The Piano Trios of Stanley Silverman ''The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio with Guest Artist Sting'' In Celebration, Trio No. 1 is included on Chamber Music America's list of 100 best chamber pieces written by an American. * 2018-2019 –

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tour Trio No. 2 “Reveille”

Personal life

In 1966, Silverman married former VP of

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and theatre and television producer and executive Mary Silverman (née Delson); the couple had one child,

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, chairman and co-CEO of Propagate and former

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co-chairman. With Mary, Silverman also raised artist and illustrator Sarah Delson. In 1980 Silverman married Martha Caplin, a founding member and 1st Violin, Primavera Quartet and the

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. The couple has one child, Rena, a journalist and photography writer.

Theatre

Music theatre

Elephant Steps * 1968: Tanglewood * 1970: Hunter Playhouse, New York & Lake George Opera * 2018: Arcola Theatre, London The Satyricon * 1969: Stratford Festival, Canada Dream Tantras for Western Massachusetts * 1971: Commemorating the opening of the Lenox Arts Center, Lenox, Massachusetts Dr. Selavy's Magic Theatre * 1972: Lenox Arts Center * 1972-73: Mercer Arts Center, New York * 1973: Wisdom Bridge Theatre, Chicago * 1978: Oxford Playhouse, U.K. * 1985: New York Off-Broadway Revival (Music Theatre Group) * 2014: New Wimbledon Theatre, U.K. Hotel for Criminals * 1974: Lenox Arts Center * 1975: Westbeth Theatre, New York * 1977: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California * 1977: Lyon Opera, FR * 2009: Provincetown Playhouse * 2016: New Wimbledon Theatre, U.K. The American Imagination * 1978: Music Theatre Group, New York Madame Adare * 1980: New York City Opera, Lincoln Center The Columbine String Quartet Tonight * 1981: Music Theatre Group, Off Broadway * 1981: Wolf Trap Theatre Up from Paradise * 1977: Kennedy Center * 1981: Whitney Museum * 1982: Off-Broadway * 1987: Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival * 2014: New Wimbledon Theatre, U.K. * 2018: Stratford Festival, Canada Africanus Instructus * 1986: Music Theatre Group, New York * 1986: Festival d'Automne, Centre Pompidou, Paris * 1986: Festival de Otono, Teatro Monumental, Madrid * 1986: Festival de Lille, l'Opera A Good Life * 1986:

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, Washington DC Paradise for the Worried * 1989: Lenox Arts Center, Massachusetts * 1990: Music Theatre Group, New York Love and Science * 1990: Music Theatre Group, Lenox, Mass. * 1991: Music Theatre Group, New York * 1993: Houston Grand Opera, Houston Celebrating Stanley (Revue) * 2013: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Ontario, Canada Celebrating Silverman (Revue) * 2014: London Hippodrome, London

Incidental music

Broadway * 1969: ''The Watering Place'' * 1972: ''

'' * 1978: ''Stages'' * 1980: ''Bent'' (Nominated - Drama Desk Award) * 1981: ''The Little Foxes'' * 1982: ''Othello'' * 1983: ''Private Lives'' * 1992: ''Saint Joan'' (National Actors Theatre) * 1993: ''Timon of Athens'' (Nominated - Drama Desk Award) * 1994: ''The Government Inspector'' * 1995: ''Uncle Vanya'' Off-Broadway * 1958: ''The Golden Six'' * 1962: ''Ten Nights in a Barroom'' * 1983: ''The Lady and the Clarinet'' * 2007: ''Fugue'' Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center * 1965 ''The Country Wife'' * 1966 ''Yerma'' * 1967: ''The Little Foxes'' & ''Galileo'' * 1968: ''St. Joan'' & ''Tiger at the Gates'' * 1970: ''Beggar on Horseback'' * 1971: ''Mary Stuart'' * 1972: ''Narrow Road to the Deep North'' Stratford Festival, Canada * 1967: ''Richard III'' * 1968: ''Midsummer Night's Dream'' * 1969: ''Satyricon'' * 1970: ''School for Scandal'' * 1981: ''A Comedy of Errors'' * 1982: ''The Tempest'', ''Arms and the Man'' & ''Mary Stuart'' * 1983: ''Love's Labour's Lost'' & ''Much Ado About Nothing'' * 1985: ''King Lear'' * 1989: ''The Merchant of Venice'' * 1991: ''Timon of Athens'' * 1992: ''The Tempest'' & ''Measure for Measure'' * 1994: ''Twelfth Night'' & ''2 One-Act Plays by Moliere'' Guthrie Theatre. Minneapolis * 1971: ''Taming of the Shrew'' * 1972: ''Oedipus'' * 1973: ''School for Scandal'' New York Shakespeare Festival * 1979: ''Julius Caesar'' & ''Coriolanus'' * 1984: ''The Golem'' * 1994: ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' Mark Taper Forum. Los Angeles * 1979: ''The Tempest'' Long Wharf Theatre. New Haven * 1982: ''Two by A.M.'' (Arthur Miller) * 1983: ''The Lady and the Clarinet'' Royal Exchange Theatre. Manchester U.K. * 1987: ''The Bluebird of Unhappiness '' Seattle Repertory Theatre * 1987: ''The Caucasian Chalk Circle'' Hartford Stage Company * 1992: ''Heartbreak House'' Lincoln Center Theatre. New York * 1998: ''Ah, Wilderness!'' Royal Shakespeare Company * 1999: ''Timon of Athens'' (adaptation) The Berkshire Theatre Festival * 1966: ''The Skin of Our Teeth'' * 1966: ''The Cretan Women'' * 1966: ''The Merchant of Venice''

Classical compositions

Principal performances

Tenso * 1962: White House & Carnegie Hall * 1963: Broadcast, Brazil Television and Japanese Television Canso * 1964: Tanglewood (de Varon) * 1965: Town Hall, New York Planh * 1966: Festival de Musique Americaine Contemporaine, Radio diffusion Television Francaise, Paris * 1968: Monday Evening Concerts, Los Angeles; Tanglewood * 1969: Stratford Festival, Canada * 1971: New York Philharmonic Encounter Series (Pierre Boulez) The Midsummer Night's Dream Show * 1971: New England Conservatory Chorus, Jordan Hall, Boston * 1973: Speculum Musicae, Burgess, Gagnon, Whitney Museum, NY Oedipus The King (Oratorio) * 1973: Speculum Musicae, Burgess, Gagnon at the Whitney Museum, NY * 2016: BBC Orchestra and Chorus, BBC Radio 3 Crepuscule * 1974: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center * 1984: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center * 1987: Y Chamber Soloists, New York (Jaime Laredo) * 2004: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center The Charleston Concerto * 1976: U.S Bicentennial performances in Charleston and New York Variations on a Theme of Kurt Weill * 1977: Naumburg Award. Performed by Empire Brass Quintet at Tully Hall, Lincoln Center (American Tour 1977–1984) * 1978: Brooklyn Philharmonic at the Brooklyn Academy of Music * 1982:Empire Brass Quintet at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University * 1995: Meridian Brass Quintet (International Tour & Recording) * 2018: Israel Philharmonic at the Wallis Annenberg Center, Los Angeles New York Shakespeare Festival Fanfare * 1978: Delacorte Theatre, New York Chaconne in D minor (Arranged for Brass Quintet) * 1982: Empire Brass Quintet at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University Birthday Variations for Avery Fisher * 1986: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Trio No. 1 In Celebration * 1989: Performed by Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio at the 92nd Street Y, New York and Krannert Center, Urbana Illinois. (International Tour, 1990–95, American Tour 2000–present). * 2001: Ouro Preto & Pocos de Caldas, Brazil, (Musitrio) * 2007: Bronfman Chamber Series, Sun Valley, ID * 2008: Rio & Porto Alegre, Brazil, (Musitrio), Gewurzmuehle Zug, Switzerland (Ensemble Chameleon) * 2013: Maestro Sergio Magnani Hall, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Musitrio) Psalm 100 * 1990: Fairmount Temple, Cleveland, Ohio Khlestakov's Lullaby * 1994: Dayton Philharmonic, Dayton, Ohio Eridos * 1999: European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece (Antigoni Goni) * 2000: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, * 2001: Royal Academy of Music, London (Antigoni Goni); Carnegie Recital Hall, New York (Antigoni Goni) * 2001: Prague, Czech Republic, (Antigoni, Goni) Shakespeare and Our Planet * 2001: Lincoln Center Institute (2 concerts & tour) * 2002: (Gala) Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center Trio No.2 Reveille * 2011: Performed by Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio with Sting at the 92nd St. Y, New York * 2013: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, Kennedy Center, Washington DC (& U.S. tour) * 2013: Ensemble Chameleon. Grosse Halle Gewurzmuhle, Zug, Switzerland. Saal Hofmat, Oberagi, Switzerland * 2018: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, Da Camera Society, Los Angeles Saudades do Brazil for String Quartet (after Milhaud) * 2020: Quartet Guignard, Sala Sergio Magnani, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Principal performances as guitarist

*1961: Ojai Festival, California *1962: Los Angeles Philharmonic *1962-69: Tanglewood *1962-63: Pierre Boulez Tour *1965, 1966, 1967: Marlborough Festival *1966, 1967: Boston Symphony Orchestra *1966-72: New York Philharmonic *1966: Stravinsky Festival, Lincoln Center *1966: Festival de Musique Americaine Contemporaine, Paris *1971, 1974, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1985: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center *1987, 1993: Chamber Music at the Y, New York

Filmography

Composer

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(1 episode) (1975) *

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(1976) *

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(1980) * Eyewitness (1981) * Strong Medicine (1981) *

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(1982) * The Tempest (TV Movie) (1983) * Behind The Scenes with David Hockney (1992)

Consultant

* Charles Munch ''Final Concert with the Boston Symphony'', WGBH (1962) * ''Nashville Star'', NBC, USA Network (2003-2008) * ''Michael Buble’s Christmas in New York'' (with

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), NBC (2011) * ''Casanova'', Amazon Studios (2015) * ''Israel Philharmonic Global Gala'' (hosted by

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), Livestream on

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website (2020)

Discography

Composer

* Doctor Selavy's Magic Theatre (1974, 2011) * Elephant Steps (1974, 2013) * New American Music Vol. 2. ''Planh'' (1975, 2004) * Sweet Airs That Give Delight, ''Shakespeare songs'' (1992) * Legacies: Piano Trios by Zwilich, Pärt, Kirchner & Silverman (1996) * Age of Influence, ''Variations on a Theme of Kurt Weill'' (1996) * Kinematic, ''In Celebration'' (2002) * Hymn to the Muse, ''Eridos'' (2016)

Guitarist

Selected credits include: * Mahler ''Symphony No. 7'' (Leonard Bernstein, 1967) * ''Footlifters'' (Gunther Schuller 1975, 2005) * ''Threepenny Opera'', guitar, banjo, Hawaiian guitar (1976, 2010) * ''Marlboro Music Festival 40th Anniversary'' (1984, 1990) * ''Brasileirinho'' (

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, 1993)

Arranger

Major arranger credits include: *

Songs From The Capeman ''Songs from The Capeman'' is the ninth solo studio album by Paul Simon, released in 1997. His first new studio album of original materials in seven years, it contains Simon's own performances of songs from the Broadway musical he wrote and produc ...

, Paul Simon (1997) * Hourglass, ''Another Day'', ''Enough To Be On Your Way''

(1997) * You're the One, ''Darling Lorraine'', ''The Teacher'', Paul Simon (2000)

Conductor

* ''Threepenny Opera'' LP (1976) CD (2004) * ''Timon of Athens'',

Duke Ellington Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based ...

(1993)

Awards

*1970 -

Obie Award The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards originally given by ''The Village Voice'' newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City. In September 2014, the awards were jointly presented and administered with the A ...

for Outstanding Achievement, ''Elephant Steps'' *1973 -

Drama Desk Award The Drama Desk Award is an annual prize recognizing excellence in New York theatre. First bestowed in 1955 as the Vernon Rice Award, the prize initially honored Off-Broadway productions, as well as Off-off-Broadway, and those in the vicinity. Fo ...

for Most Promising Composer, ''Dr. Selavy's Magic Theatre'' *1977 –

Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pres ...

nomination for Best Opera Recording, ''Threepenny Opera'' *1979 -

nomination for Outstanding Incidental Music, ''Bent'' *1983 -

(Special Citation) for ''The Mother Of Us All'' *1993 -

nomination for Best Classical Performance Soloist, ''Concerto'' *1997 –

winner for Best Pop Album, Hourglass * 2000 -

nomination as arranger for Album of the Year, You're The One * 2018 – Zubin Mehta Lifetime Achievement Award

References

External links

BMI DatabaseOfficial Website
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