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• Choir: MidAtlantic Chamber Choir
• Piece: Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought: 4. Sonnet 9
• Composer:  Steven R. Gerber
• Conductor:  Jason C. Tramm
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: Classical, Contemporary
• MidAtlantic Chamber Choir Personnel:
  Jason C. Tramm, Conductor
  
  Soprano
  Paige Porter
  Veronica Shea Salkin
  Samantha Ferrara
  Hillary Baboukis
  
  Alto
  Kimberlee Korzelius
  Sophia Morte...  moreMidAtlantic Chamber Choir Personnel:
  Jason C. Tramm, Conductor
  
  Soprano
  Paige Porter
  Veronica Shea Salkin
  Samantha Ferrara
  Hillary Baboukis
  
  Alto
  Kimberlee Korzelius
  Sophia Mortensen
  Irene Lyristakis
  
  Tenor
  Rider Foster
  Zachary Morehouse
  Jose Daniel Mojica
  Charles Bryan
  Kevin Courtemanche
  
  Bass
  Christian Arencibia
  Peter Lamendola
  Devin McGuire
  Skyler Klein
  
  Video/Audio Engineering: Quinton Tramm
  David Winkler, Producer
  Recorded: June 4, 2022
  Broadway Presbyterian Church (Manhattan)
  
  From Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
  4. Sonnet : Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye
  
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  BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
  
  Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye,
  That thou consum’st thy self in single life?
  Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die,
  The world will wail thee like a makeless wife;
  The world will be thy widow and still weep
  That thou no form of thee hast left behind,
  When every private widow well may keep
  By children’s eyes, her husband’s shape in mind:
  Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend
  Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;
  But beauty’s waste hath in the world an end,
  And kept unused the user so destroys it.
  No love toward others in that bosom sits
  That on himself such murd’rous shame commits.
  
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  Steven R. Gerber, Biography (1948-2015)
  Steven R. Gerber was born on September 28, 1948 in Washington, D.C. He held degrees from Haverford College and from Princeton University, where he received a 4-year fellowship. Steven's music composition teachers include Robert Parris, J. K. Randall, Earl Kim, and Milton Babbitt.
  
  His early works were in a free atonal style, incorpor...    less