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ELLEN MANDEL and ROB GILDON WILL PERFORM MANDEL'S SONGS AT THE KILKENNY ARTS FESTIVAL THIS AUGUST 10 and 11, 2010!! http://www.kilkennyarts.ie/events/details/to-an-isle-in-the-water/
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LINCOLN CENTER INSTITUTE'S ART SONG PROGRAM features Steven Herring singing Ellen Mandel's setting of "when faces called flowers" July 2010 through June 2011! See links for complete program!
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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: "Her settings of poems by E. E. Cummings are ardent and spiky, refreshingly organic."
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VILLAGE VOICE, Leighton Kerner: "Freshly inventive and emotionally on-target composer Ellen Mandel's music is remarkable for compositional resource, and apt theatricality. So attention should be paid as she branches out now with musical settings of e.e. cummings poems. a wind has blown the rain away is the title of the CD. Todd Almond sings them, with the composer at the piano.”
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Ellen Mandel has written music for over fifty plays, and has released three CDs, A WIND HAS BLOWN THE RAIN AWAY, fifteen of her E.E. Cummings songs sung by Todd Almond, THE FIRST OF ALL MY DREAMS, Almond sings Mandel’s settings of poems by E.E. Cummings, Seamus Heaney, William Butler Yeats and others, plus jazz songs with both music and lyrics by Mandel, and EVERY PLAY'S AN OPERA, collected theatre music.
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CD's at cdbaby.com, and at St Mark's Bookstore (NYC), Politics and Prose (Wash DC) and Toadstool Bookshop (Peterborough NH), or directly from Ellen Mandel through this website!