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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

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