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January 28, 2021 at 9pm EST is a brand new episode of LUNAR LANDSCAPES: Wolf Moon . This month, we will celebrate the full moon with special guest Gilda Lyons. The livestream will also include music by Philip Glass and Eleonor Sandresky.
In January, everything but humans is asleep. The featured cocktail/mocktail, the Wolf’s Den, invokes a cozy place to be warm, rest and reflect. Outside plant life is seemingly dead. You will receive the recipe and snack recommendations when you purchase your ticket, along with a unique link to the event.
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PROGRAM
GLASS “Dead Things” from The Hours for solo piano (2002)
Performed by Eleonor Sandresky
SANDRESKY Someone Comes By for soprano and piano (2003)
Text by William Bronk
Performed by Gilda Lyons and Eleonor Sandresky
LYONS A Girl Who Misses for solo piano (2008)
Performed by Eleonor Sandresky
LYONS Hydroxychhloroquine for soprano (2020)
Video by Chris Lyons
Performed by Gilda Lyons
SANDRESKY Strange Energies #10, Patience for solo piano (2020)
Performed by Eleonor Sandresky
About Gilda Lyons
Gilda Lyons. Photo courtesy of the composer.
GILDA LYONS, composer, vocalist, and visual artist, combines elements of renaissance, neo-baroque, spectral, folk, agitprop Music Theater, and extended vocalism to create works of uncompromising emotional honesty and melodic beauty.
A fierce advocate of contemporary music, Lyons has commissioned, premiered, and workshopped new vocal works by dozens of composers. Her works and performances are available on the Clarion, GPR, Naxos, New Dynamic, New Focus, Roven Records and Yarlung Records labels. Lyons’ vocal collaboration with Laura Ward (Lyric Fest/Naxos) was described by Opera News as “winning delivery, full of character.” “Gilda Lyons's clear soprano compels admiration” writes David Shengold of Opera, UK of her performance in Hagen’s “Shining Brow” (Buffalo Philharmonic/Falletta/Naxos).
Recent recording projects as composer include the release of Lyons’ works by Quince (Motherland); Laura Strickling (Confessions); and entelechron (The Folk Tune Project); Lindsey Goodman's tour de force performance of Lyons' Chrysalis (reach through the sky); and Sing for Hope’s release of Lyons' Hold On (An AIDS Quilt Songbook).
Lyons currently serves as Co-Chair of the Composition Program at Wintergreen Summer Music Academy and as Assistant Professor of Composition at The Hartt School. She is Artistic and Executive Director of The Phoenix Concerts, New York's "intrepid Upper West Side new-music series" (The New Yorker), and serves on the Board of Advisors of Composers Now, the Steven R. Gerber Trust, and Sparks & Wiry Cries.
Lyons served as Composer-in-Residence of Chautauqua Opera in the 2019 season. In 2021, she returns as composition faculty for Connecticut Summerfest. Lyons’ music is published by Schott, E.C. Schirmer, and Burning Sled. www.gildalyons.com