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• Choir: MidAtlantic Chamber Choir
• Piece: Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought, No. 5 Sonnet 130
• Composer:  Steven R. Gerber
• Conductor:  Jason C. Tramm
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Contemporary, neo-Rennaisance
• 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
  5. Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
  
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  BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
  
  My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
  Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
  If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
  If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
  I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
  But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
  And in some perfumes is there more delight
  Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
  I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
  That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
  I grant I never saw a goddess go;
  My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
  And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
  As any she belied with false compare.
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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