Green Sneakers
For Baritone and String Quartet
Text by Ricky Ian Gordon
Published by Theodore Presser Company
Duration: 60 min.
Voices: Baritone
Instrumentation: Empty Chair, String Quartet, and Piano
Premiere: July 15, 2008; Vilar Performing Arts Center; Jesse Blumberg, baritone; Miami String Quartet; dir. Ricky Ian Gordon
Commission: 2008 Commission for the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival
Purchasing & Rental: Theodore Presser Company
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The Advocate (Jase Peeples, 19 February 2013)
artsBHAM (Michael Huebner, 12 March 2016)
Catskill Chronicle (Barry Plaxen, 18 October 2012)
Denver Post (Sabine Kortals, 11 July 2008)
Leonard Link (Arthur S. Leonard, 23 December 2009)
My Big Gay Ears (Joseph Dalton, 10 February 2010)
New York Times (Stephen Holden, 7 April 2013)
Opera Today (Wes Blomster, 22 July 2008)
Philly.com (David Patrick Stearns, 10 January 2010)
Qmetropolis.com and Qonstage.com (Bruce-Michael Gelbert, 19 December 2009)
SF Classical Voice (Jason Victor Serinus, 19 February 2013)
SF Examiner (Robert Sokol, 16 February 2013)
Southern Jewish Life (1 March 2016)
StageandCinema.com (Grant Barnes, 11 March 2013)
Opera Birmingham
2016 Production
Mathew Worth, Baritone; Tyson Deaton, Conductor; John de Los Santos, Director
Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival
Premiere Production, 2008
