Alex Weiser

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Weiser's album in a dark blue night, released by Cantaloupe Music in March 2024, features mezzo-soprano Annie Rosen and explores Jewish immigrant New York City through two song cycles. The first, "in a dark blue night," features five settings of Yiddish poetry written by newly arrived immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s which depict the city at night. The second song cycle, "Coney Island Days," sets to music the recorded memories of Weiser's late grandmother, discussing her childhood in the bustling immigrant world of Coney Island in the 1930s and 40s — days at the beach, at the family's knish store, and at the Russian bath.

Weiser has also written three operas that explore Jewish themes: State of the Jews, which is a historical drama about Theodor Herzl,
- - Nechin, Etan (16 February 2025). "'This Book Will Haunt Us': The First English Language Opera About Herzl Takes on His Life and Legacy". Haaretz. Retrieved 17 April 2025. The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language, a chamber opera about Yudel Mark, Max Weinreich, and the famous unfinished multi-volume Yiddish dictionary,
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- and Tevye's Daughters, an opera based on the Sholem Aleichem story Shprintse.
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- Rhodes, Jennifer (13 January, 2025). “I’d like to think that it’s all my canvas” - an interview with Alex Weiser. In Geveb. Retrieved 17 April 2025.

Other works exploring Jewish themes include Weiser's Tfiles Clarinet Concerto commissioned by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews for Andrzej Cieplinski and the Polish Radio Orchestra which draws inspiration from poetry by Kadia Molodowsky, and after shir hashirim for chamber orchestra which takes its inspiration from the biblical Song of Songs.

Common themes in Weiser's work also include death and transience as exemplified by his work Three Epitaphs. Other major works have included shimmer for eight spatially arrayed cellos written for and recorded by Ashley Bathgate as a companion piece to Steve Reich's Cello Counterpoint,
- and water hollows stone for piano four hands, written for HOCKET.

In addition to his work as a composer and at YIVO, Weiser is co-founder and artistic director of Kettle Corn New Music,
- and worked for about five years as the Director of Operations and Development at the /ref>

• and all the days were purple (Cantaloupe Music, 2019)
• water hollows stone (Bright Shiny Things, 2022)
• in a dark blue night (Cantaloupe Music, 2024)

Featured on

• HOCKET: #what2020soundslike (2022)
• Ashley Bathgate: 8-Track (New Focus Recordings, 2023)
• Vertex: joy, too (Navona Records, 2024)

• Artist Page, Cantaloupe Music