“My passion to write music arises out of a most basic human desire to touch other human beings. I compose because it gives me such pleasure to enable others to laugh, to dance, to feel tender, to be entertained. If music doesn’t communicate to an audience, why write it?”

– Paul Salerni

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQY7g66fuC5BYMUAQ-oMNhQ

Or if you weren’t able to attend, you can watch my 70th birthday concert at Merkin Hall here:

 

Here are some specific compositions you might enjoy:

L’acquabelle di fontanelle (variations on an Abruzzese folk song performed by the Trio Sallese):

Regimen Sanitatis Salerni, song of advice for a healthy diet

A Bethlehem Carol:

 

 

Various press notices:

 

“But overall, it is not the craft of composition that stays with the listener, but what I would call the art—the emotional and spiritual content of these genuinely lovely pieces. It is, as Salerni promised, music that sings and dances.” -Henry Fogel, review of “Touched” CD in Fanfare

“His music ‘pulsated with life, witty musical ideas and instrumental color.'” -Philadelphia Inquirer

“…impressive was Mr. Salerni’s ‘Bad Pets,’ three playful cabaret songs based on Mr. Gioia’s sly ‘Alley Cat Love Song,’ Mark Doty’s frisky ‘Golden Retrievals’ and Robert Frost’s placid ‘Cow in Apple-Time.'” – The New York Times

Please read Fanfare review of Touched-Henry Fogel

 

 

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