It is a stunning modern masterpiece, a work of profound musical and emotional depth.”[8] Her Piano Concerto was written for pianist Alexander Paley and premiered by the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in 1996.
Said Steve Schwarz, in Classical Net, the Concerto "speaks with what I'd call a depth of discourse...it bespeaks a maturity of mind and culture found in few composers.
Beauty Intolerable: A Songbook based on the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay includes 14 songs and two rounds by this American iconic poet.
It can be heard on a 2021 album released by Albany Records[13] and starring singers Dawn Upshaw, Stephanie Blythe, Sidney Outlaw, Deanne Meek, Lucy Fitz Gibbon, pianists Gilbert Kalish, Warren Jones, and other musicians.
Spend some time with Edna and Sheila and Sappho and the rest.”[14] In 2021, Silver completed an opera based on Khaled Hosseini's novel A Thousand Splendid Suns with a libretto by her long-time collaborator, Stephen Kitsakos.