New Releasings
Labor Records in collaboration with Naxos is releasing a series of recordings of my work covering more than half a century! The most recent release is "Jukebox in the Tavern of Love" paired with a new work by Meredith Monk. "The Nude Paper Sermon" and "Wiretap" is a double album containing no fewer than five works; see below for details. "Civilization & its Discontents" is a words-and-music collaboration with Michael Sahl. More information, reviews and ordering (physical or digital editions) is available below or by going to Labor Records.
Postponed Performances
The projected performance of Cassandra (text by Eva Salzman) by Kristin Norderval scheduled for this summer as part of the Vox Clamans Festival has been postponed until next season with the new date to be announced.
The projected performance of Accord/Discord—including Accord, for solo accordionist, Brecht Suite, and arrangements of Latvian and Argentine tangos—scheduled for performance at the Music Festival of the Hamptons this summer has also been postponed with a new date to be announced.
Date Posted // June 02, 2010
In Categories // Accord/Discord, Brecht Suite, Cassandra, Events, News
Upcoming Performance of The Opium Song
The Opium Song—a setting from the French-language production of La Bonne Ame de Setchouan by Bertolt Brecht—will be performed on May 27th as part of 21st Century Salon Series: Aria, produced by Beth Morrison at Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo, Brooklyn and performed by Laila Salins and Bill Schimmel with a string ensemble.
Date Posted // April 28, 2010
In Categories // Events, La Bonne Ame de Setchouan, News, The Opium Song, Works and Productions
Premiere of Salzman’s Suite from The True Last Words of Dutch Schultz
On Sunday, May 15th at 3:00pm, Eric Salzman’s Suite from The True Last Words of Dutch Schultz for violin, piano, drums, and bass marimba, will premiere at the Southampton Cultural Center with violinist Marc Levine, pianist Gloria Shih, and percussionist Dylan Benson. The program, consisting of music by composers from the East End of Long Island, will also include works by Victoria Bond, Bruce Wolosoff and Steven Dickman.
The Southampton Cultural Center is located at 25 Pond Lane (opposite Agawam Park and Lake), Southampton, New York. View Map.
The Suite is drawn from the score written for the music-theater work with a text by Valeria Vasilevski. The work premiered in 1999 in the Netherlands and toured with Theo Bleckmann playing the title role, in a production directed by Ms Vasilevski. The American concert premiere, also with Theo Bleckmann, was directed by Victoria Bond at one of her Cutting Edge Concerts at Greenwich House in 2001. The American stage premiere, in a Center for Contemporary Opera production directed by Grethe Barrett Holby, with Dirk Weiler in the lead and Ms Bond conducting, was a featured work in the 2007 Wall-to-Wall Opera at Symphony Space. Read the review from New Music Connoisseur.
Date Posted // April 22, 2010
In Categories // Events, News, The True Last Words of Dutch Schultz, Works and Productions
Center for Contemporary Opera Benefit and Gala
The Center for Contemporary Opera’s benefit and gala at the Cell Theatre on Friday, February 19, 2010, will feature the Chanson de l’Opium from Salzman’s score for a French translation of Brecht’s La Bonne Ame de Setchouan. It will be performed by Laila Salins, mezzo-soprano, and Bill Schimmel, accordion, who gave the concert premiere in December. The program also includes excerpts from Michael Dellaira’s The Secret Agent, Susan Hurley’s Anais, and a short opera buffa called Review, based on a New Yorker story by Patricia Marx with music by Jeremy Beck. For ticket information go to www.brownpapertickets.com or call 1-800-838-3006.
Date Posted // January 19, 2010
In Categories // Events, La Bonne Ame de Setchouan, Music Theater, News, Works and Productions
The Visible Sounds Conference in Jerusalem
In February, Salzman will be presenting his work and ideas at Visible Sounds: Interrationships Among Music, the Visual Arts and the Performing Arts—a conference at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute for Advanced Studies, in collaboration with the Israel Science Foundation.