It was a pleasure to fill in for colleague John Prestianni at the West Side YMCA for The Kids Company’s production of Annie Jr. Luminaries in the audience have included Judd Hirsch. Â The young actors from Kids Company are multi-talented and a joy to work with!
It was a pleasure to play piano for Donna Seife’s 50th birthday party. Donna’s son Matthew was a student at the Neighborhood Playhouse Jr School. I played requested songs as well as a few songs by heart and some rock songs – CROCODILE ROCK! Yeah!!!
Steven had the pleasure of serving as Music Director for Paul Russell’s sixth installment of Access to Agents. Â Two of the actors are former student- Chris & Kayla- Very exciting to see how far they’ve come as performers. Â The Agent night is November 1st.
It was a hoot! Â August 24. Â Christine Pedi invited me to a dress rehearsal of Andrea Martin’s one woman show with Seth Rudetsky playing piano. Â I was fortunate enough to participate in a game and got to “sort of” greek dance with Andrea on stage.
Fall cleaning in 70 degree weather can unearth some treasures. Â So proud of this song , written with Jane Brody Zales, circa 1996 for a possible revue sung by the incomparable Joyce Nolen.
When It’s Right (1996) © Silverstein/Zales
Steven worked as Assistant Music Director and Pianist for one week on The Fartiste, at Sophias in NYC. Â Much good luck with the show!
Steven had the privilege of playing New York, New York for the super-talented Ariel Tyler Page at the famed La Cirque restaurant in NYC. This was part of an event produced by the amazing Sally Allen of The Water Coolers. Â There was some fun dancing and an impromptu version of Irving Berlin’s God Bless America sung by the employees of Genworth Financial.
Written in 1996 with lyricist Stephen Cole, I wanted to add some 21st century technology with the help of Christian Castro and garage band. Â I also wanted to comfort my friend Irene who was going through “family issues.” Enjoy! Â Â Sales Pitch 9-9-11