I have had a life-long love affair with the borough of my birth Manhattan in the city of New York. Here many of my friends live, and here the compositions on this CD originate. Each piece tells its own story. Ms. Silverman holds a BA from Barnard College, an AM from Harvard and a DMA from Columbia. Currently on the faculty of Mannes College The New School for Music, she is a founding member of Music Under Construction and the International Women s Brass Conference. She is the recipient of many awards and commissions and her music has been performed by the Baltimore Symphony and the Brooklyn Philharmonic among many other orchestras and chamber ensembles.