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2014 Premiere Production at Loretto-Hilton Center
Stephanie Blythe | Elizabeth Futral | Theo Lebow
Conductor: Michael Christie | Director: James Robinson
Morning Star
Opera America's National Opera Center New Works Center, 2016
Jennifer Zetlan | Theo Lebow
Pianist: Marcus Kuchle | Conductor: Christopher Allen
A Coffin in Egypt
Houston Grand Opera (2014)
Patrick Summers, Artistic & Music Director
All I Ever Known
from Rappahannock County
Aundi Marie Moore
Rob Fischer, conductor | Kevin Newbury, director
Hallie Ann
from Rappahannock County
Aundi Marie Moore
Rob Fischer, conductor | Kevin Newbury, director
Kid in the Park
Nicole Cabell & Ricky Ian Gordon
Video by Sergei Kvitko
Love Song for Lucinda
Sean Curran Company
Music by Ricky Ian Gordon
A Lullaby
Audra McDonald
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Moon River
Eve Gordon (mother of Ricky), piano
December 27, 1920-June 27, 2012
My People
Text by Langston Hughes
Harolyn Blackwell | Craig Ruttenberg, piano
For Thomas Hampson’s “I Hear America Singing”
Projections by Wendall Harrington
Once I Was
Stacey Tappan
Ricky Ian Gordon
Ring a Ding Ding
John Nauman & Sergei Kvitko, piano
Ricky Ian Gordon, page turner
Daybreak in Alabama
Poem by Langston Hughes
Audra McDonald | Ricky Ian Gordon, piano | David Cerutti, viola | Dorothy Lawson, cello | Kenny Dybisz, reeds
Jeffrey’s Birthday: a concert to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS: 10 March 1997 Symphony Space, NYC
Dream Variations
Poem by Langston Hughes
Audra McDonald
Ricky Ian Gordon, piano | David Cerutti, viola | Dorothy Lawson, cello | Kenny Dybisz, reeds
Jeffrey’s Birthday: a concert to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
10 March 1997 Symphony Space, NYC
Song for a Dark Girl
from Only Heaven
Poem by Langston Hughes
Audra McDonald
Ricky Ian Gordon, piano | David Cerutti, viola | Dorothy Lawson, cello | Kenny Dybisz, reeds
Jeffrey’s Birthday: a concert to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
10 March 1997 Symphony Space, NYC
Sycamore Trees
Original Signature Theatre Cast
Directed by Tina Landau
Conducted by Fred Lassen
Too Few The Mornings Be
Complete song cycle poems by Emily Dickinson
Elizabeth Zharoff, soprano | Don St. Pierre, piano
Chautauqua, Summer 2009
Waltz
John Nauman, piano
Video by Sergei Kvitko
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Poem by Emily Dickinson
Nothing Like a Dame 1999
Zoe Caldwell, narrator | Lauren Flanagan, soprano | Ricky Ian Gordon, piano
Bric-A-Brac
Ricky Ian Gordon, voice & piano
Video by Sergei Kvitko
Cradle and All
Audra McDonald | Ted Sperling
Desire Rag
John Nauman, piano
Video by Sergei Kvitko
Green Sneakers
Jesse Blumberg | Miami String Quartet
A Horse with Wings
Ricky Ian Gordon, voice & piano
Video by Sergei Kvitko
Blue Griffin’s Studio, The Ballroom, August 2010
I Am Part of Something Now
from Orpheus & Euridice
Elizabeth Futral | Todd Palmer
Directed by Andreas Mitisek | Long Beach Opera
I Never Knew
from The AIDS Quilt Songbook
Kurt Ollman | Ricky Ian Gordon, pianist
Jeffrey’s Birthday: a concert to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
10 March 1997 | Symphony Space, NYC
Joy
Poem by Langson Hughes
Harolyn Blackwell
Ricky Ian Gordon, piano | David Cerutti, viola | Dorothy Lawson, cello | Kenny Dybisz, reeds
Jeffrey’s Birthday: a concert to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
10 March 1997 | Symphony Space, NYC
Commencement Address
University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Friday, April 27, 2018