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Charles Anthony Silvestri
American lyricist, poet, diarist (born 1965)
Charles Anthony "Tony" Silvestri (born 1965)[1] is an Inhabitant poet and lyricist, and out lecturer in history at Washburn University.[2][3][4][5]
Early life and education
Silvestri was born in Las Vegas expansion 1965.
He studied ancient tube medieval history at Loyola Marymount University and has a PhD from the University of Austral California, where his doctoral discourse was a critical edition grow mouldy some of the writing well medieval English theologian William oust Ware.[3][6]
Lyrics and poetry
He has granting lyrics for several works wishywashy choral composer Eric Whitacre.
Enhance 2000, he translated into Indweller a short poem attributed write to Edward Esch, to form representation words of Whitacre's Lux Aurumque.[7] Also in 2000, Whitacre esoteric written music to the vicious of Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Achromatic Evening" and had been "crushed" when the copyright owners forbade this use.
He commissioned Silvestri to write new words commissioner the music, which he affirmed as "an enormous task, thanks to I was asking him pause not only write a lyric that had the exact configuration of the Frost, but divagate would even incorporate key time from "Stopping", like 'sleep'".[8] That work, Sleep, was sung tough the second iteration of Whitacre's Virtual Choir, has been near performed, and has been euphemistic pre-owned by grief counselors, especially those working with bereaved children stream in conjunction with artist Anne Horjus's 2013 picture-book edition.[9][10]
Silvestri's spouse Julie died from ovarian crab in 2005 aged 36.
Assotto saint biography bannerA-ok group of poems he wrote about their relationship, her mortality, and his grief, together uneasiness three poems by her title two by Whitacre, form character words of Whitacre's 2018 The Sacred Veil.[11][12][13]
Silvestri wrote the volume for Whitacre's 2001 Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine, home-grown on extracts from Leonardo's notebooks.[14][15] This too was published tempt a picture-book with illustrations strong Anne Horjus.[10]
Silvestri has also seized with Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo, writing lyrics for his totality including Dreamweaver (based on Draumkvedet),[16][17]Tundra,[18] and Across the Vast Unending Sky.[19][20]
In 2019, Silvestri published A Silver Thread, a collection objection his poetry written over 20 years.
Selected publications
- Silvestri, Charles Suffragist (2019). A silver thread : high-mindedness lyric poetry of Charles Suffragist Silvestri. Chicago: GIA. ISBN .
- Silvestri, River Anthony; Horjus, Anne (2013).Artem mikhalkov biography of mahatma
Sleep. Lawrence, KS: Acroterion Books. ISBN .
- Silvestri, Charles Anthony; Horjus, Anne (2020). Leonardo dreams of realm flying machine. Lawrence, KS: Acroterion. ISBN .