A few months ago, I got an email from William Bolcom, telling me to run, not walk, to Amsterdam to hear a new opera composed by one of his former students. This marionette opera, based on a lost futurist libretto, was a technical and artistic tour-de-force, and was composed by Dan Moses Schreier.

This summer, I interviewed Dan in New York about his work on and off Broadway.

AMERICAN HIGHWAYS #99: COMPOSER DAN MOSES SCHREIER

PLAYLIST

Theme Music:

Jan Jeroen (J.J.) Spijkervet & Immersive Sound

“American Highways” Jingle

Sounds About Right

composed for Concertzender

Dan Moses Schreier, text by William Shakespeare

“LOVE NOTHING BUT LOVE” from Troilus and Cressida (Delacorte Theater production)

Dan moses schreier, electronics; greg jarrett, keyboard; Victoria Houston-Elem, vocals

Bandcamp released April 28, 2017

Dan Moses Schreier, text by Fortunato Depero

Demolishing Everything With Amazing Speed

Atonal Playground percussion

Abandon 2

Backwards Fields played (Snippet)

Dan Moses Schreier, electronics

unreleased

text by William Shakespeare

“Sigh No More” from Much Ado About Nothing

JESSICA VOSK, vocal; PAUL GEMIGNANI, music director; JUSTIN SMITH, violin; GUY KLUCEVSEK, accordion; ERIC B. DAVIS, guitar; MICHAEL LONG, bass.

https://danmosesschreier.bandcamp.com/track/sigh-no-more

text by William Shakespeare

Baptism, from The Merchant of Venice

Dan Moses Schreier, electronics

Unreleased

 

 

text by Sally Oswald

DISFARMER Suite

Accordion- GUY KLUCEVSEK Violin- JUSTIN SMITH Banjo/Guitar- ERIC B. DAVIS recorded by JOHN KILOGORE at John Kilgore Recording

https://danmosesschreier.bandcamp.com/album/disfarmer-suite

Dan Moses Schreier

the great vowel shift

Jennifer Hough, harpist; William Hayes and Dan Moses Schreier, percussion

Recorded at the McDowell Colony, unreleased

Demolishing Everything With Amazing Speed

Snippet

The Fighting Couple

Buzzheads

Dan Moses Schreier, electronics

Unreleased

Dan Moses Schreier

Busoni Takes Acid – Piano Sonata

Charlie Berigan, pianist

Unreleased (broadcast world première)

David King

Super America

The Bad Plus

E1 Records: EOM-CD-2112

 

BIO

Dan Moses Schreier is a composer and sound designer, best known for his work in the theater.  Mr. Schreier was born in Detroit, Michigan and has made New York City his home since 1976. During his freshman year at the University of Michigan, he studied composition with William Bolcom – and was then hired by Stanley Silverman to work as his assistant on a musical Silverman was composing with playwright Arthur Miller in New York City.

Mr. Schreier continued his studies at Columbia University while continuing to work in the theater.  He has received commissions to compose scores for the Broadway productions of The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino (2011), the world premiere of August Wilson’s Radio Golf (2007), Julius Caesar starring Denzel Washington (2005), The Glass Menagerie starring Jessica Lange (2005). Dance of Death starring Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren (2001), and The Tempest starring Patrick Stewart (1995). For the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, he has been commissioned to compose scores for Troilus and Cressida (2016), King Lear starring John Lithgow (2014) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2007).  With performing artist and puppeteer, Dan Hurlin, Mr. Schreier has collaborated with and composed the scores for Quintland-The Musical for DTW (1989),