That Star in the Picture (Private Links)

Track List

1. What About Tomorrow? for Soprano and Baritone, Piano, and Horn in F (opt.)
   Music and Lyrics by James Adler
   Elizaveta Ulakhovich, soprano * Perry Sook, Baritone  * Kyle Walker, Horn in F * James Adler, Piano

2. Pie Jesu (from Memento mori: An AIDS Requiem) for Mezzo-Soprano, Clarinet in B-Flat, Cello, and Piano
   Music by James Adler
   Traditional Latin Text
   Victoria Livengood, Mezzo-Soprano * Francis Novak, Clarinet * Kyle Walker, Horn in F * Adam Fisher, Cello * James Adler, Piano

3. Beautiful Garden (from Reflections) for Medium-High Voice, Flute, and Piano
   Music by James Adler
   Lyric by James Griener
   Michael Buchanan, Tenor * Denise Koncelik, Flute * James Adler, Piano

4. Growing (from Spirits) for Medium-High Voice, Flute, and Piano
   Music by James Adler
   Lyric by Mae Richard
   Kennedy Kanagawa, Tenor * Denise Koncelik, Flute * James Adler, Piano

5. “Hope” is the thing with features for Baritone, Cello, and Piano
   Music by James Adler
   Lyric by Emily Dickinson
   Perry Sook, Baritone * Adam Fisher, Cello * James Adler, Piano

6. Dreams (from Spirits) for Medium-High Voice, Cello, and Piano
   Music by James Adler
   Lyric by Mae Richard
   Michael Buchanan, Tenor * Adam Fisher, Cello * James Adler, Piano

7. Beyond Night for Lyric Baritone and Piano
   Music by James Adler
   Lyric by Rosalie Calabrese

8. That Star in the Picture for Soprano, Flute, Oboe, Cello, and Piano
   Music by James Adler
   Lyric by Carmel Friedman
   Shana Farr, Soprano * Denise Koncelik, Flute * Brian Shaw, Oboe * Adam Fisher, Cello * James Adler, Piano

Featuring Victoria Livengood in
Pie Jesu; Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

“As usual with this composer, James Adler’s ‘Pie Jesu’ is nothing but beauty. This new chamber music version gives us the warm embrace of horn, cello, clarinet, and piano. Victoria Livengood’s is the voice of comfort, and beauty.”

Christopher Purdy
Broadcast Manager/On-Air Host
WOSU Public Media/Classical 101
April 26, 2023
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Adler possesses a genuine melodic gift. “Pie Jesu,” originally the seventh movement from Memento mori: An AIDS Requiem, works beautifully here in a sensitive arrangement for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, horn, cello, and piano.

Henry Fogel
Fanfare Magazine
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What they’re  saying about
James Adler’s That Star in the Picture

“James Adler writes beautiful melodies.”

Judith Clurman
Conductor, Essential Voices USA
Faculty, Manhattan School of Music
April 25, 2023
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French hornist Kyle Walker, creative consultant Lonnie Park, James Adler, mezzo-soprano Victoria Livengood, clarinetist Francis Novak, cellist Adam Fisher

“Breathing fresh life into the Art Song form, That Star in the Picture proves that excellent words plus passionate music still complement each other just as colorfully as in the days of the Victorian parlor song when a whole story could be told in a song. James Adler has chosen texts by Emily Dickinson and from the poets of today, to weave story-telling with music of the highest order.”

Cordelia Brown
Music Director
Kansas Public Radio
April 28, 2023
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James Adler, soprano Shana Farr, cellist Adam Fisher, oboist Brian Shaw, and flutist Denise Koncelik

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