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Richard Foreman and Stanley Silverman Collaborations

Hotel For Criminals, Lenox Arts Center, Lenox, MA, August 14, 1974

Complete recording (1:08:07): MP3

Africanus Instructus, 1986

Cast: Alan Scarfe, Eve Bennet-Gordon, David Sabin, Kate Dezina, Keith David, Tommy Hollis, Susan Browning, Clark Brown and Gerard Gilmore, Charles Richardson and Peter Davis. Orchestra: David Oei, Martha Caplin, Joe Tamosaitis, William Moersch.

  1. Overture (3:55): MP3
  2. Prologue (1:00): MP3
  3. Little Girl (1:36): MP3
  4. A Bird In A Cage Of Gold (3:16): MP3
  5. You Can Look At Me (1:04): MP3
  6. I'd Burn The Wood / Never Sing Fire (3:53): MP3
  7. Story Of My Life (1:48): MP3
  8. Red Telephone (1:03): MP3
  9. It Was As If A Red Telephone (1:09): MP3
  10. Black Max (2:46): MP3
  11. Get Your Fingers Off My Body / Love, A Lady In Her Armor (3:38): MP3
  12. Civilization (2:09): MP3
  13. Three Feet (2:51): MP3
  14. Rhoda Was Wrestling A Lion (3:32): MP3
  15. Hard To Do (1:58): MP3
  16. If A Rug Could Float (1:18): MP3
  17. Flying A Bird (0:48): MP3
  18. The Oh Song (1:13): MP3
  19. Feed A Machine (1:21): MP3
  20. Recit - Then Her Lily White Arms (0:48): MP3
  21. Cure Me, Cure Me (2:47): MP3
  22. Certain Bodies Have No Head (1:55): MP3
  23. Black Max Reprise (1:05): MP3
  24. Take Me Back To Africa (1:12): MP3
  25. Africanus Instructus! (1:07): MP3
  26. I Am Searching For Adventure (2:59): MP3
  27. Exit Music (2:46): MP3

The American Imagination, New York, 1991

Originally produced in 1978 by Stanley Silverman and Richard Foreman. Published by Ben Rena Music Co. BMI New York. Cast: Paul Ukena, Lynn Gerb, Durward McDonell, Lisa Kirchner, Luter Enstad, Robert Schlee, Raymond Murcell, Dennis Urban, William Parry, Carl Tramon, Daniel Tramon, Stephen Hanan, Lee Winston.

Complete recording (46:18): MP3

Love & Science, New York, 1991

Published by Ben Rena Music Co. BMI New York. Cast: Nancy Bergman, Julian Long, Teresa Eldh, Laila Salins, Peter Nichols Davis, Charles Richardson, Michael Willson, Bruce Kolb, Jamie Blachly. Orchestra: David Oei, Martha Caplin, Deborah Wong, Liuh-Wen Ting, Maria Kitsopoulos, Robert Wolinsky, Jim Baker, Robert Elhai.

  1. My Radio (3:58): MP3
  2. Try To Understand (5:22): MP3
  3. Oh Deceiving Lady (2:20): MP3
  4. I Can Hear The Most Beautiful Music (3:41): MP3

Elephant Steps 50th anniversary production, Arcola Theatre, London, 2018

Complete recording (1:19:14): MP3


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Note: Silverman's & Foreman's Elephant Steps (1974) and Doctor Selavy's Magic Theater (2011) are available on commercial streaming services.

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