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The Silent Spring Project is a musical, visual, audio, and theatrical performance that explores, through music, the impact of mankind on the environment. Five pieces composed by Mark Fromm were recorded in their original versions on Trillium Ensemble’s debut album Silent Spring. Tonight’s show integrates those recordings with live performance and sung, spoken, and whispered texts, creating a narrative that juxtaposes Buckminster Fuller's ideas about the future of humanity with Rachel Carson's warnings about releasing too many man-made chemicals into the environment.

A Citizen of the 21st Century Looks Back (2009)
Deus Ex Machina (2006)
Borealis (2005)
e to the x (2013)
Silent Spring (2013)

Texts used with permission from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), Buckminister Fuller’s Utopia or Oblivion (1969), and John Keats’ La belle dame sans merci (1884).

Performed by the Trillium Ensemble:
Elise DePasquale flute, alto flute, bass flute, contrabass flute
Rachael Stutzman Cohen, clarinet, bass clarinet
Katherine Palumbo, piano and voice

Mark S. Fromm, composer
Don Maue, sound engineer
Jason Allison, sound production/editing

Paul Kruse, Video Editor
Jeremy Fleishman, Videographer
Renee Rosensteel, Photographer
Lisa Liebering, Scenic/Costume design
Antonio Coloratuolo, Lighting Design

Funded By:
New Hazlett Theater, CSA Performance Series
Pittsburgh Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency
Puffin Foundation

Special Thanks:
Flute Academy of Pittsburgh
HearCorp and Dave Bjornsen
Patricia M. DeMarco, Talk Back Host/Rachel Carson Scholar