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The poet Jacob Miller was a student of the Nobel Prize Laureate, Joseph Brodsky,and also worked with the American Poet Laureate, Robert Hayden. Jacob’s workhas received a Hopwood Poetry Award and he has also been the recipient ofsupport from the New York Foundation for the Arts for his collection, SelectedPoems. Jacob has long collaborated with composers, including Gene Pritsker,Peter Jarvis and Dan Barrett, to name a few, on numerous projects that have beenperformed across the United States, bridging poetry and music. Jacob’s freeverse libretto, Manhattan In Charcoal, was written with composer Gene Pritsker inmind, to offer a new approach to opera.MANHATTAN IN CHARCOALA Chamber OperaAlso a fiction author, Jacob was awarded a seriesof Artist's Grants from the New York Foundationfor the Arts for his novel The Last Word. As anessayist, his work, Sublimity vs. Circulation, urginglibrarians nationally to more aggressively seekout new writers, was awarded in the Best of Lit.Series and published first in Library Journal andlater by The Scarecrow Press.4As an editor, Jacob worked for the Universityof Michigan Press, Times-Mirror Publications,The Empyrea Literary Journal, and The YorkvilleAnthology of New Writers, before opening Jacob’sStudio ( jacobs-studio.org ) in New York Cityand making his editorial services availableprivately. Over the past twenty years, Jacob hasalso been teaching Creative Writing at HunterCollege, the Gotham Writers' Workshop, and theScuola Internazionale in Italy.Composed by Gene PritskerLibretto by Jacob Miller
Composer/guitarist/rapper/Di.J. Gene Pritsker has written over five hundred compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music andsongs for hip-hop and rock ensembles. All of his compositions employ an eclectic spectrumof styles and are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures.He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc.ensemble and co-director of Composers' Concordance. Gene's music has been performedall over the world at various festivals and by many ensembles and performers, includingthe Adelaide Symphony, MDR Symphony, The Athens Camerata, China Philharmonic Orchestra,Brooklyn, Shanghai and Berlin Philharmonic, Sinfonietta Riga, Orchester des Pfalztheaters, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Anhaltische Philharmonie as well as by soloists such as AnneAkiko Meyers, Lara St. John, Sarah Chang, Kathleen Supové,Martin Kuuskmann and Simone Dinnerstein. He has workedclosely with Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated major Hollywood movies, Including 'Cloud Atlas', for which he wroteadditional music and composed his ''Cloud Atlas Symphony',to be released in 2015 .The New York Times described him as ".audacious.multitalented." Joseph Pehrson, writing in The Music Connoisseur,described Pritsker as "dissolving the artificial boundariesbetween high brow, low brow, classical, popular musics andelevates the idea that if it's done well it is great music, regardless of the style or genre".Classical Music Sentinel wrote: "His expressive reach is sowide as to encompass everything from ethno/techno, rock/jazz fusion, classical opera and more, and it all seems tobe effortlessly integrated within his anima and comes outthrough different facets of his persona. You could almost seehim as a modern day renaissance man. “2photo by Martin VandoryHe is the co-founder/guitarist of Absolute Ensemble andartist-in residence at the Austrian Outreach Festival.COMPOSERS CONCORDANCE RECORDS Directors:Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, Milica ParanosicComposers Concordance Records presents thematically-relatedrecordings of modern music produced with the latest developments in studio precision. CCR is developing new concepts ofwhat an album can be, bringing new music and new mediumstogether to a new level of cross-genre transcendence. Our goalis simple.good music recorded well, pushing the boundaries ofsound and Poet - Jacob Miller (speaker)Artist - Charles Coleman (baritone)Beatrice - Lynn Norris (soprano)Art Dealers/Critics ChorusEleanor Taylor - soprano Constance Beavon - altoArnie Rodriguez - tenor Doug Shapiro - bassMUSICIANSMargaret Lancaster - flute Roni Gal-Ed - oboe Michiyo Suzuki - clarinetDamian Primis - bassoon Franz Hackl - trumpet Mike Seltzer - tromboneDavid Rozenblatt - percussion Derin Oge - piano Lynn Bechtold - violinMioi Takeda - violin Edmundo Ramirez - viola Anneke Schaul-Yoder - celloMat Fieldes - bassMixed and mastered by Sheldon Steiger Recorded at Bunker StudioAaron Nevezie - engineer Andy Plovnick - assistantProduced by Gene Pritsker, Jacob Miller and Sheldon Steiger33
Composer/guitarist/rapper/Di.J. Gene Pritsker has written over five hundred compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music andsongs for hip-hop and rock ensembles. All of his compositions employ an eclectic spectrumof styles and are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures.He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc.ensemble and co-director of Composers' Concordance. Gene's music has been performedall over the world at various festivals and by many ensembles and performers, includingthe Adelaide Symphony, MDR Symphony, The Athens Camerata, China Philharmonic Orchestra,Brooklyn, Shanghai and Berlin Philharmonic, Sinfonietta Riga, Orchester des Pfalztheaters, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Anhaltische Philharmonie as well as by soloists such as AnneAkiko Meyers, Lara St. John, Sarah Chang, Kathleen Supové,Martin Kuuskmann and Simone Dinnerstein. He has workedclosely with Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated major Hollywood movies, Including 'Cloud Atlas', for which he wroteadditional music and composed his ''Cloud Atlas Symphony',to be released in 2015 .The New York Times described him as ".audacious.multitalented." Joseph Pehrson, writing in The Music Connoisseur,described Pritsker as "dissolving the artificial boundariesbetween high brow, low brow, classical, popular musics andelevates the idea that if it's done well it is great music, regardless of the style or genre".Classical Music Sentinel wrote: "His expressive reach is sowide as to encompass everything from ethno/techno, rock/jazz fusion, classical opera and more, and it all seems tobe effortlessly integrated within his anima and comes outthrough different facets of his persona. You could almost seehim as a modern day renaissance man. “2photo by Martin VandoryHe is the co-founder/guitarist of Absolute Ensemble andartist-in residence at the Austrian Outreach Festival.COMPOSERS CONCORDANCE RECORDS Directors:Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, Milica ParanosicComposers Concordance Records presents thematically-relatedrecordings of modern music produced with the latest developments in studio precision. CCR is developing new concepts ofwhat an album can be, bringing new music and new mediumstogether to a new level of cross-genre transcendence. Our goalis simple.good music recorded well, pushing the boundaries ofsound and Poet - Jacob Miller (speaker)Artist - Charles Coleman (baritone)Beatrice - Lynn Norris (soprano)Art Dealers/Critics ChorusEleanor Taylor - soprano Constance Beavon - altoArnie Rodriguez - tenor Doug Shapiro - bassMUSICIANSMargaret Lancaster - flute Roni Gal-Ed - oboe Michiyo Suzuki - clarinetDamian Primis - bassoon Franz Hackl - trumpet Mike Seltzer - tromboneDavid Rozenblatt - percussion Derin Oge - piano Lynn Bechtold - violinMioi Takeda - violin Edmundo Ramirez - viola Anneke Schaul-Yoder - celloMat Fieldes - bassMixed and mastered by Sheldon Steiger Recorded at Bunker StudioAaron Nevezie - engineer Andy Plovnick - assistantProduced by Gene Pritsker, Jacob Miller and Sheldon Steiger33
The poet Jacob Miller was a student of the Nobel Prize Laureate, Joseph Brodsky,and also worked with the American Poet Laureate, Robert Hayden. Jacob’s workhas received a Hopwood Poetry Award and he has also been the recipient ofsupport from the New York Foundation for the Arts for his collection, SelectedPoems. Jacob has long collaborated with composers, including Gene Pritsker,Peter Jarvis and Dan Barrett, to name a few, on numerous projects that have beenperformed across the United States, bridging poetry and music. Jacob’s freeverse libretto, Manhattan In Charcoal, was written with composer Gene Pritsker inmind, to offer a new approach to opera.MANHATTAN IN CHARCOALA Chamber OperaAlso a fiction author, Jacob was awarded a seriesof Artist's Grants from the New York Foundationfor the Arts for his novel The Last Word. As anessayist, his work, Sublimity vs. Circulation, urginglibrarians nationally to more aggressively seekout new writers, was awarded in the Best of Lit.Series and published first in Library Journal andlater by The Scarecrow Press.4As an editor, Jacob worked for the Universityof Michigan Press, Times-Mirror Publications,The Empyrea Literary Journal, and The YorkvilleAnthology of New Writers, before opening Jacob’sStudio ( jacobs-studio.org ) in New York Cityand making his editorial services availableprivately. Over the past twenty years, Jacob hasalso been teaching Creative Writing at HunterCollege, the Gotham Writers' Workshop, and theScuola Internazionale in Italy.Composed by Gene PritskerLibretto by Jacob Miller
PART 310. Art Dealers Dance11. Just Give Me Something That Will Sell12. The Charcoal Simplicity of Our City13. Just the Way I Draw14. The Way That Girl Holds On To His ArmPART 415. Shoeprints in the Rain Slicked Sidewalk16. Is there Someone Else17. Loitering at the Tall Door of Your Heart18. Now That I’ve Destroyed His Art19. But There Is and Has Always Been Only You20. The Night’s Familiar Black Sheet is Ripped21. New York’s Challenge2014 Composers Concordance RecordsManhattan in Charcoal libretto 2014 J. B. MillerCover Artwork by Jacob MillerCover & Insert Layout Design by E.V. SvetovaCOMCON0021back TrayCard final.indd 1composerconcordance.comCOMCON0021MANHATTAN IN CHARCOALPART 11. When Even the Village Feels Empty2. On the Avenue of Art3. The World of Imagination4. Shivering5. To What Are We DrinkingPART 26. Outsider Art7. In the Mist, Stone Cheeks Glisten8. Celebrating Manhattan in Charcoal9. The Pinch of Being Broke AgainMANHATTAN IN CHARCOALManhattan in Charcoal, composed by Gene Pritsker for the libretto written by JacobMiller, explores the life and loves of an artist in New York City in the early days of the 21stCentury who, despite being broke and lacking recognition, struggles to find his way, retainhis integrity and, in the meantime, not go entirely crazy. In its dramatic conclusion, thetriumph of Manhattan in Charcoal resonates in the unanswerable questions the operaleaves us with regarding art and love, and the survival or durability of both.2/15/15 8:51 PM
Jacob's free-verse libretto, Manhattan In Charcoal, was written with composer Gene Pritsker in mind, to offer a new approach to opera. Also a fiction author, Jacob was awarded a series . the Gotham Writers' Workshop, and the 4 Scuola Internazionale in Italy. PART 1 PART 3 1. When Even the Village Feels Empty 2. On the Avenue of Art 3. The .
