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Libretto by Royce Vavrek
Gertrude: Stephanie Blythe
Alice: Elizabeth Futral,
Picasso: Theo Lebow
Conductor: Michael Christie
Director: James Robinson
Morning Star
Libretto by William Hoffman
Fannie: Jennifer Zetlan
Irving: Theo Lebow
Pianist: Marcus Kuchle
Conductor: Christopher Allen
A Coffin in Egypt
Libretto by Leonard Foglia
Frederica von Stade
Houston Grand Opera
All I Ever Known
from Rappahannock County
A Theatrical Song Cycle about the Civil War
Libretto by Mark Campbell
Aundi Marie Moore, soprano
Rob Fischer, conductor
Kevin Newbury, director
Hallie Ann
from Rappahannock County
A Theatrical Song Cycle about the Civil War
Libretto by Mark Campbell
Aundi Marie Moore, soprano
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 (soprano)
Keith Lockhart (conductor)
Moon River
Eve Gordon
December 27, 1920-June 27, 2012
mother of Ricky (playing piano)
My People
Text by Langston Hughes
Harolyn Blackwell, soprano
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, soprano
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, soprano
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, soprano
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 for 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, soprano
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