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MAY 13 at CORNELIA ST CAFE: DANIEL NEER SINGS MUSIC BY ELLEN MANDEL!! Celebrating the release of our new CD: THE CAT AND THE MOON!! info on my calendar page! LOTS OF NEW SONGS!!! PLEASE JOIN US!!!
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CHARLIE GIORDANO, who plays with BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, played accordion on my LULU SUITE!! Listen on my music page! *********************************************************************************************************************************************
DANIEL NEER sang music by ELLEN MANDEL at NEW GALLERY CONCERTS in Boston, Andrea Clearfield Salon in Philly, and Carnegie Concerts in Nyack!! HUGE SUCCESSES!!!
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My talented actress friend DEE NELSON got on Broadway in THE HEIRESS!! My song GRAY ROOM, to a poem by Wallace Stevens, perfectly protrays Catharine Sloper, the heroine, at the end of the play. Sung by PAMELA BOB, who was AMAZING in the hilarious show SILENCE. Listen on my music page---Ms. Bob sings other songs too!!
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TODD ALMOND sings songs by ELLEN MANDEL to poems by e.e. cummings, Seamus Heaney, WB Yeats and others---- CDs available at St Mark's Bookshop (NYC), Politics and Prose (Wash DC) and Toadstool Bookshop (Peterborough NH), and at CDBABY.com, or directly through this website!
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THE FIRST OF ALL MY DREAMS:
"WONDERFUL" Sarah Cahill of KALW (San Francisco public radio)
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A WIND HAS BLOWN THE RAIN AWAY:
All Things Considered, NPR: "A striking collaboration: the playful poetry of e.e. cummings set to music by New York composer Ellen Mandel and sung beautifully by Cincinnati tenor and actor Todd Almond. I wish I could give it to every poetry lover I know." ************************************************************************************************************************************
NY TIMES, Margo Jefferson: "Mandel's settings of poems by E. E. Cummings are ardent and spiky, refreshingly organic."
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Compulsive Reader blog RAVES about THE FIRST OF ALL MY DREAMS and A WIND HAS BLOWN THE RAIN AWAY--- see links
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AESOP'S FABLES, THE TOYMAKER'S APPRENTICE, RUMPELSTILTSKIN, THREE PIGS, and LITTLE RED!
Original cast albums now available!
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Ellen Mandel songwriting workshops after performances of Toymaker's Apprentice, Songs in the Key of Giggles, and Rumpelstiltskin: Go to the music page to hear the songs we wrote!!
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