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Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 05/04/2023

ArtistTitleAlbum (* = New Release)
Stanley SilvermanTrio No. 2, Reveille III. Guajira y FugaThe Kalichstein-Laredo Trio - In Celebration*
Stanley SilvermanTrio No. 2, Reveille VI. Closer Les Folies d_AlThe Kalichstein-Laredo Trio - In Celebration*
StratospheeriusSpain (feat. Rachel Flowers & Alex Skolnick)Behind the Curtain Live at Progstock*
StratospheeriusHeavy Shtettle (feat. Alex Skolnick)Behind the Curtain Live at Progstock*

Today on Captain Phil's Planet we'll welcome the legendary Stanley Silverman as we discuss the new CD IN CELEBRATION The Piano Trios of Stanley Silverman performed by The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio in the 3 pm hour. I'll be joined by WUSB DJ Gisele Schierhorst and WWFM DJ Ross Amico.

Then in the 4 pm hour welcome back Joe Deninzon to discuss his brand new live CD Stratospheerius Behind the Curtain Live at Progstock.
Tune in at 90.1 fm WUSB Stony Brook or stream at
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For over 50 years Stanley Silverman has enjoyed a varied and rich career in both the classical and popular musical worlds, and in theater and film. He has done a great deal of work on and Off-Broadway with such stage luminaries as Arthur Miller, Richard Foreman, Mike Nichols, Arthur Penn and Anthony Burgess. He was the conductor of the Joe Papp/Lincoln Center production
of Threepenny Opera (Tony and Grammy nominees) and directed the 1983 production of Virgil Thomson’s The Mother of Us All. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his orchestrations for Paul Simon’s musical The Capeman.
Silverman’s music has been performed by Pierre Boulez and the New York Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the BBC Philharmonic, Richard Stoltzman, Tashi, James Taylor, Sting, Paul Simon and Elton John. His music has been performed at international festivals such as the Autumn Festivals of Paris and Madrid, the Stratford Festival of Canada, the RSC, the Royal Exchange, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, and the Delphi Festival of Greece. Film scores include Simon, Eyewitness, I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can and Nanook of the North.
Silverman has won Obie, Drama Desk, Naumburg, and Koussevitsky Foundation Awards, and has been nominated for a Tony Award. He arranged James Taylor’s album Hourglass which won the Grammy Award as the Best Pop Album of 1998 and served as arranger for the Rainforest Fund Benefit Concerts produced by Trudie Styler and Sting.
He was twice commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has received two Guggenheim Fellowships as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Silverman was honored in 2004 by the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education, and by the Stratford Festival of Canada in 2013. In 2018 Silverman received a Zubin Mehta Lifetime Achievement Award. www.stanleysilverman.com

Led by electric violinist/vocalist Joe Deninzon, who has been called The Jimi Hendrix of the electric violin, Stratospheerius has showcased their “frenzied melange of progressive rock, jazz fusion and funkabilly” throughout the world. The New York-based group has opened for Martin Barre, Alex Skolnick, John 5 & The Creatures, Gary Hoey, Mike Stern, Tim Reynolds, Mickey Hart, and John Scofield, among many others. The group’s influences include Yes, Spock’s Beard, Muse, Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and King Crimson. Stratospheerius was a winner of the John Lennon International Songwriting Competition the Musicians Atlas Independent Music Awards. They have been featured in Progression, Relix, Downbeat, and Jazziz, among other publications. Check out the new Stratospheerius double LIVE CD/DVD/BLU RAY: “Behind the Curtain (Live at ProgStock)!”
https://stratospheerius.com/