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Acclaimed lyricist, author, and composer Charles Anthony Silvestri specializes in providing bespoke poetry for choral composers, especially texts in Latin.!
Charles Anthony "Tony" Silvestri (born ) is an American poet and lyricist, and a lecturer in history at Washburn University.
Charles Anthony Silvestri
American lyricist, poet, historian (born 1965)
Charles Anthony "Tony" Silvestri (born 1965)[1] is an American poet and lyricist, and a lecturer in history at Washburn University.[2][3][4][5]
Early life and education
Silvestri was born in Las Vegas in 1965.
He studied ancient and medieval history at Loyola Marymount University and has a PhD from the University of Southern California, where his doctoral dissertation was a critical edition of some of the writing of medieval English theologian William of Ware.[3][6]
Lyrics and poetry
He has provided lyrics for several works by choral composer Eric Whitacre.
In 2000, he translated into Latin a short poem attributed to Edward Esch, to form the words of Whitacre's Lux Aurumque.[7] Also in 2000, Whitacre had written music to the words of Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and had been "crushed" wh