Recorded Live at Yamaha Artist Services Studio NY

What they’re already saying about
James Adler’s That Star in the Picture

“James Alder writes beautiful melodies.”

Judith Clurman
Conductor, Essential Voices USA
Faculty, Manhattan School of Music
April 25, 2023
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“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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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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