King of Prussia, PA – In the aftermath of a great personal tragedy, Ricky Ian Gordon found solace in Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America, befriending the playwright to produce this touchingly beautiful setting. At the request of legendary soprano Renée Fleming, Night Flight to San Francisco (Harper's Monologue from "Angels in America") (111-40236 — $9.95) will also be scored for soprano and orchestra for a string of concerts in 2012. An orchestral accompaniment is available on rental from the publisher.

Ricky Ian Gordon was born on May 15, 1956 in Oceanside, NY and raised on Long Island. In love with poetry and fascinated, from an early age, by all forms of Opera and Music Theater, he attended Carnegie Mellon University as a piano major, but soon realized that his true vocation was as a composer. After college he settled in New York City and quickly emerged as one of the most successful writers of a kind of vocal music that straddles the world of theater and art song. His unusual ability to find the musical core of a poem or lyric and express that essence in an appropriate musical style, has given his songs great appeal to singers of all styles and persuasions. Mr. Gordon’s songs have been performed and or recorded by such internationally renowned singers as Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Audra MacDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Andrea Marcovici, Melanie Helton, Harolyn Blackwell, Betty Buckley, Margaret Lattimore, Stephanie Novacek and Mary Philips, among many others. For more information, visit: www.rickyiangordon.com.

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