Albany Records is proud to announce the release of vocal and choral music by Alan Seidler. Repertoire includes Playthings and In the Arc of Your Mallet featuring Laura Last, soprano; Two Sacred Pieces (Our Fatherand Psalm XXIII performed by The Collegiate Chorale; and The Mystic Trumpeter performed by Laura Last, soprano, Steven Goldstein, tenor, Graham Ashton, solo trumpet, The Collegiate Chorale, and The Orchestra of Our Time conducted by Joel Thome.
Alan Seidler was born in New York City. He began to piano lessons shortly before his seventh birthday and within a few months was composing short piano pieces and songs, imitative of the Classic and Romantic masters he studied. At age 17 he attended The JuilliardSchool, wherehe studied composition with the late Vincent Persichetti and piano with Josef Raieff. After leaving Juilliard, Seidler’s career took a left turn and he soon became one of the pioneers of the Blues and Ragtime revival of the 1970s. Following a short stint on Radio Pacifica WBAI-FM, he was signedto a recording contract by Blue Goose Records where he recorded several LPs on which he both sang and played piano, offering up his zany originals, deceptively old-fashioned musically, but ultra-hip in spirit and lyric content. The most successful of these was The Duke of Ook, which soon became and still remains a cult classic…
