Common Ground Coffeehouse @ The First Unitarian Society opens its 11th season with an evening with Rob Morsberger. Morsberger is a singer-songwriter and classically-trained composer. His album, “The Chronicle of A Literal Man”, was featured on PRI/NPR, and received raves in USA Today, The Boston Globe and Boston Herald, and more. Writing in the Herald, renowned rock critic Kevin Convey stated that the “album is the kind of hyperliterate, pop-inflected singer-songwriter outing that went out of style when Warren Zevon died. And….he can write a hook that could make angels weep.” As a sideman/arranger, he has worked with Patti Smith, My Morning Jacket, Crash Test Dummies, Marshall Crenshaw, Jules Shear, Loudon Wainwright III, Dan Zanes, and The Roches. Scoring/arranging credits include Boardwalk Empire, Masterpiece Theater, NOVA and Frontline. He was composer for the award-winning PBS series NOVA scienceNOW for its first five seasons. Two new albums are now slated for release on 9/18/12: Rob’s sixth album, ‘A Part Of You’, and ‘Midnight Garden’, a collaboration with Crash Test Dummies’ Brad Roberts. This work premiered in a live performance at Tarrytown Music Hall in June, 2012 Rob also premiered, with Jon Herington, a commisioned song, ‘Mystic Redemption’, in Mystic, CT. The town on Stonington, CT has named May 31st Rob Morsberger Day in recongnition of this performance and song.
