Silversher & Silversher


Michael Silversher and Patricia Silversher, sometimes billed as Silversher & Silversher, are an American songwriting team known for writing themes and songs for Disney and Jim Henson television series, shows and specials, as well as direct-to-video animated films for Disney, Henson, Sony Wonder, MGM and Warner Bros. They participated on the Grammy Award-winning soundtrack album for the Sony-CTW film The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. They've also been nominated for three prime-time Emmy Awards for outstanding music and lyrics.
Formerly married, Michael Silversher and Patty Silversher continue their collaboration in children's music. They scored the Jim Henson/PBS show "Dinosaur Train" that began to air in September 2009. They wrote songs for "Sid The Science Kid" and they are the music supervisors, composers and lyricists for the Henson, 4Kids and Sprout production Pajanimals, which has been on the air since November 2008.

Songs

Some of their work includes:
Michael Silversher also has a songwriting credit on Raffi's 1994 album Bananaphone, for the song "The Changing Garden of Mr. Bell" which he wrote with singer/songwriter, Janice Hubbard. He was founding musical director and resident songwriter for Robert Redford's Sundance Institute's Children's Theater and Sundance Institute's Playwrights' Lab from 1991-96. He wrote and arranged most of the Mickey Mouse Splashdance album from Disneyland Records' WDL series. He has written operas for L.A. Opera and Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and a musical, The Lively Lad, shown at the Humana Festival of New American Plays. Michael was commissioned by The Kennedy Center to write the music for Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical, in collaboration with author Mo Willems, which premiered in 2010.