A song cycle with lyrics by playwright Ellen McLaughlin, feat' vocalist Shara Worden (of My Brightest Diamond) & the chamber orchestra Signal, conducted by Brad Lubman. Inspired by Homer’s epic poem, the Odyssey, Penelope is a meditation on memory, identity, and what it means to come home. The album was released October 26, 2010 on New Amsterdam Records. The subject of the album is a woman whose long-missing former husband turns up at her door, traumatized by two decades spent in an unnamed war. To restore his memory, the woman reads aloud from Homer’s Odyssey. The result i… read more
Recently deemed 'a composer with an enviable knack for crafting moody, strikingly beautiful works' (TimeOut, New York), Sarah Kirkland Snider is a New York-based composer whose music defies easy categorization, drawing on elements of modern classical composition, indie rock, classical cabaret & folk music. Her first album, Penelope, features Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) & the chamber orchestra Signal and has been critically acclaimed by NPR, The Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, Filter, The Utne Reader, Textura, Death and Taxes, Popsh… read more
Recently deemed 'a composer with an enviable knack for crafting moody, strikingly beautiful works' (TimeOut, New York), Sarah Kirkland Snider is a New York-based composer whose mu… read more
Recently deemed 'a composer with an enviable knack for crafting moody, strikingly beautiful works' (TimeOut, New York), Sarah Kirkland Snider is a New York-based composer whose music defies easy categorization, drawing on ele… read more