tag:ellenmandel.com,2005:/blogs/news-56e3e166-018e-4847-aa3a-133021340408?p=3News2021-09-20T13:34:17-04:00Ellen Mandelfalsetag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946422020-01-28T20:14:57-05:002020-01-19T09:48:15-05:002014 HIGHLIGHTS!!!!
<p><em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color:#ff0000">2014: WHAT A YEAR!!! </span></em></p>
<p><em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color:#ff0000"><em><span style="color:#ff0000">J</span></em>AN: E.A ROBINSON celebration at Cornelia Street Cafe: World Premiere of Mandel's three new songs to Robinson's poems sung by extraordinary DANIEL NEER!! </span></em></p>
<p><em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color:#ff0000">MANDEL and JESSICA CRANDALL perform Mandel songs at Andrea Clearfield Salon, Philadelphia </span></em></p>
<p><em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color:#ff0000">APRIL: DANIEL NEER and ELLEN MANDEL concert at Roe-Jan Library, Hillsdale NY----WONDERFUL!!!!! </span></em></p>
<p><em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color:#ff0000">APRIL: at Cornelia St Cafe, ELLEN and JESSICA CRANDALL perform Mandel's Shakespeare songs and jam with Sonnet Man rapper Devon Glover! </span></em></p>
<p><em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color:#ff0000">MAY: SEAMUS HEANEY Celebration at Cornelia St Cafe: ELEANOR TAYLOR sang Mandel settings!!! </span></em></p>
<p><em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color:#ff0000">AUG-SEPT: A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE: was a monster hit AT THE PETERBOROUGH PLAYERS!!! Bridget Beirne as Patsy, and I was musical director/pianist of a great band!!!</span></em></p>
<p><em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color:#ff0000">Sept 16: WORLD PREMIERE OF HAIKU NYC: my song cycle to Daniel Neer's Haiku!! </span></em></p>
<p><em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color:#ff0000">OCT 6: PAMELA BOB at 54 Below sang music of Ellen Mandel and Michael Lydon!! </span></em></p>
<p><em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color:#ff0000">NOV: KAREN RICH sang my four brand new settings of poems by Charlotte Mew at Cornelia Street Cafe </span></em></p>
<p><em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color:#ff0000">DEC: ELLEN MANDEL AND THREE SWINGING SIRENS amazing great show at Cornelia Street Cafe. All music by Mandel, trios, duets, lyrics by Glyn Maxwell, WB Yeats, e.e. cummings, and Mandel herself! A SMASH HIT!!! </span></em></p>
<p><em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color:#ff0000">DEC: UNDER MILK WOOD with songs by Ellen Mandel presented by Phoenix Theatre Ensemble!!! ******************************************************************************************************************************</span></em></p>
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<p><em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color:#ff0000">DON JUAN IN HELL, with music by Ellen Mandel, gets RAVE REVIEW in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, NYITA BEST REVIVAL!!!! *******************************************************************************************************************************</span></em></p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946452020-01-08T19:00:00-05:002020-01-19T09:48:16-05:00AWARDS and nominations
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color:#ff0000"><strong>MANDEL received a <strong>Scenie Award</strong></strong><strong> </strong>for her music for TOP GIRLS at Antaeus<span style="color:#ff0000"> </span></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="color:#ff0000"><strong><em><strong><span style="color:#ff0000"><strong>plus award </strong></span></strong></em>nominations: </strong></span></strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="color:#0000ff; font-style:italic">DEATH OF A SALESMAN</span><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="color:#3366ff">,</span> </span><span style="color:#0000ff; font-style:italic"><span style="color:#0000ff; font-style:italic"><em><span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="color:#0000ff; font-style:italic"> </span><span style="color:#0000ff; white-space:nowrap"><em><em>DRAMA DESK </em></em></span><span style="color:#0000ff"><em><em>nominee for </em></em><em><em>Best Revival</em></em></span><span style="color:#0000ff"><em><em>: </em></em></span></span></em></span></span></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color:#ff0000"><span style="color:#0000ff; font-style:italic"><span style="color:#0000ff; font-style:italic">Sound design by Ellen Mandel </span></span><span style="color:#0000ff"><em><em> </em></em></span></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color:#ff0000">NYIT Awards: Music/Sound Design </span></em><em style="color: #ff0000;">for Phoenix Theater's Don Juan in Hell and Medea</em><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="color:#0000ff"><em> </em></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="color:#0000ff"><em>NH Theatre Awards:</em></span></span><em><span style="color:#0000ff"> <em><span style="color:#0000ff">Sound design/original music: </span></em></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color:#0000ff">Measure for Measure, The Voysey Inheritance and <span style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#0000ff">Charley's Aunt, </span></span></span></em><em><span style="color:#0000ff"><span style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#0000ff"> </span></span></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color:#0000ff">Musical Director: Patsy Cline</span><span style="color:#0000ff"> </span></em><span style="color:#0000ff"><em><em><br></em></em></span></p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946442018-11-09T19:00:00-05:002020-01-19T09:48:16-05:00more highlights
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color:#3366ff"><span style="color:#800080"><span style="color:#0000ff">ELLEN MANDEL </span></span></span></em><span style="color:#0000ff"><em>WITH JESSICA CRANDALL </em></span><span style="color:#0000ff; font-style:italic">AND MICHAEL LYDON</span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color:#3366ff"><span style="color:#800080"><span style="color:#0000ff">AT CORNELIA STREET CAFE </span></span></span></em><span style="color:#0000ff; font-style:italic">in AUGUST 2018 was a total SMASH!!!</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="color:#ff0000">SONGS ON A SUMMER NIGHT JUNE 26! </span></strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="color:#ff0000">JESSICA CRANDALL sang songs by ELLEN MANDEL </span></strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="color:#ff0000">with special guest violinist MELANIE HASKINS!!</span></strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="color:#ff0000">A GREAT SHOW!</span></strong></em></p>
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<strong><span style="color:#ff00ff"><em>Danielle Buonaiuto sang Mandel's</em><em> HAIKU NYC</em></span><span style="color:#ff00ff"> </span><span style="color:#ff00ff"><em> at Old Stone House Nov 2018!!!</em></span></strong><span style="color:#ff00ff"> </span>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color:#3366ff"><strong><span style="color:#800080"><span style="color:#ff0000">THE LITTLE FOXES at the Antaeus Theater in L.A.</span></span></strong></span></em> <em><span style="color:#3366ff"><strong><span style="color:#800080"><span style="color:#ff0000">fall 2018 featured music by Ellen Mandel--Ellen's third collaboration with Cameron Watson and Jeff Gardner</span></span></strong></span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#ff00ff"><em><span style="color:#ff00ff"><a style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.dellarteopera.org/" data-imported="1"><span style="color:#ff00ff">dell'Arte Opera Ensemble</span></a></span> commissions new music from Ellen Mandel for their 2019 season!!! Dell'Arte commissioned</em><span style="font-style:italic"> Mandel's art </span><span style="font-style:italic">song "Le Chat" to a text by Charles </span><span style="font-style:italic">Baudelaire in 2016 and in 2017 they commissioned a different Charles Baudelaire "Le Chat" which they premiered</span></span><span style="font-style:italic; color:#ff00ff"> in their WILD THINGS recital!!! </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style:italic; color:#ff00ff">BOTH of Ellen's "Le Chat" songs were performed at this recital!!!! </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="color:#ff0000"><em>PICNIC</em></span><strong> </strong><span style="color:#ff0000"><strong>IN L.A. at the ANTAEUS THEATRE COMPANY </strong></span></strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="color:#ff0000"><strong>music by ELLEN MANDEL</strong></span></strong><span style="color:#ff0000"> <strong>featured in many rave reviews!!! </strong></span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color:#ff00ff">CHARLIE GIORDANO, of BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Band, plays accordion on my LULU SUITE</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#ff0000"><em><strong>Ellen Mandel created wall to wall music and sound for The Gambler for Phoenix Theatre Ensemble!!</strong></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="color:#333399">PAMELA BOB sings my song <strong>GODOT'S BLUES</strong></span></strong></em><span style="color:#333399; font-style:italic"><strong> <br></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#333399; font-style:italic">Listen on the music page,</span><span style="color:#333399; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic"> </span><em><span style="color:#333399">buy the download on the products page!!</span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#333333"><em><strong><strong>Super soprano LISA FLANAGAN sang SONGS BY ELLEN MANDEL</strong><strong> </strong></strong></em><span style="font-style:italic">at Cornelia Street Cafe!! </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-style:italic; text-align:center"><span style="color:#ff00ff"> SWINGING SIREN SONGS Jessica Crandall and Ellen Mandel rocked a full house at Cornelia St Cafe!!</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Peterborough Players (NH) presented PUSS IN BOOTS, </em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>by Kathy Menino, music and lyrics by Ellen Mandel summer 2011!</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The Public Theatre of Maine presented The 3 Little Pigs, </em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>by Kathy Menino, music and lyrics by Ellen Mandel in Nov 2010!</em></p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946432016-12-30T19:00:00-05:002020-01-19T09:48:15-05:002016 HIGHLIGHTS
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#ff0000"><em><span style="color:#3366ff"><strong>ARTURO UI, one of 2016's Top Ten Theatre Guide shows!!!</strong> </span></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#ff0000"><em><span style="color:#3366ff">Mandel composed and played the music live, created sound design, did live Foley effects, and even played a couple of roles!!</span></em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#ff0000"><em><strong><span style="color:#3366ff">Ellen Mandel performed with Michael Lydon and Jessica Crandall </span></strong></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#ff0000"><em><span style="color:#3366ff">at Roe-Jan</span></em></span><span style="color:#3366ff; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic"> Community Library April 2016!! a smash success!!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#ff0000"><em><strong>Killer singers Lisa Flanagan and Steven Herring sang Mandel's art songs </strong></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#ff0000"><em><strong>at Cornelia Street Cafe in April 2016!!! </strong></em></span><span style="font-weight:bold; font-style:italic; color:#ff0000">FABULOUS!!</span></p>
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Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946412014-05-20T20:00:00-04:002020-01-19T09:48:15-05:00SOME 2013 HIGHLIGHTS
<p>Mandel's music at CORNELIA ST CAFE!!! ELLEN MANDEL BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION, with Daniel Neer and Jessica Crandall plus actors Paul Hecht and Kim Sykes, THE CAT AND THE MOON, CD release concert and STANLEY KUNITZ celebration with DANIEL NEER, W B YEATS Celebration, with tenor MICHAEL SLATTERY and violinist Urara Mogi!
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DANIEL NEER also sang music by ELLEN MANDEL at NEW GALLERY CONCERTS in Boston, Andrea Clearfield Salon in Philly, and Carnegie Concerts in Nyack!!</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946392012-10-27T20:00:00-04:002020-01-19T09:48:15-05:00HENRY V at Ark Rep: music by Ellen Mandel
<p>Arkansas Rep's September production of Henry V, directed by Robert Hupp, featured new original music by Ellen Mandel!</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946382012-10-27T20:00:00-04:002020-01-19T09:48:15-05:00PRESENT LAUGHTER summer 2012
<p>FOUR SONGS by ELLEN MANDEL in PRESENT LAUGHTER at the PETERBOROUGH PLAYERS, WERE GREAT HITS!! HILARIOUS SHOW, BRILLIANT CAST, GREAT DIRECTION, FABULOUS MUSIC AND SINGING!!!!!! Ellen performed, arranged, and musical directed Gus Kaikkonen's adaptation of LITTLE MEN, also at the Players.</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946372012-10-27T20:00:00-04:002020-01-19T09:48:15-05:00MUSIC by ELLEN MANDEL in RECENT SHOWS
<p>RECENT SHOWS with music by Ellen Mandel: RUTHERFORD AND SON at the Mint Theatre, RUMPLESTILTSKIN and THE TOYMAKER'S APPRENTICE, books by Kathy Menino, music and lyrics by Ellen Mandel at the Wild Project, AGAMEMNON HOME, by Glyn Maxwell, and ART, produced by Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, and SONGS IN THE KEY OF GIGGLES, a program of Ellen's songs for Puss in Boots, Three Pigs, Toymaker's Apprentice, and Little Red.</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946402012-08-27T20:00:00-04:002020-01-19T09:48:15-05:00THOMAS HARDY SONGS by Ellen Mandel
<p>THOMAS HARDY Celebration and OGDEN NASH BIRTHDAY BASH at Cornelia St Cafe, with Paul Hecht, Bob Kaliban, Dee Nelson, Sandra Shipley and Paul O'Brien, and Daniel Neer and Jessica Crandall singing new songs by Ellen Mandel to Hardy's and Nash's poems!! FABULOUS EVENINGS! Ellen has written 5 Thomas Hardy settings!</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946362011-11-21T19:00:00-05:002021-05-16T13:13:51-04:00PUSS IN BOOTS SMASH HIT at PETERBOROUGH PLAYERS!!
<p>PUSS IN BOOTS, with music and lyrics by Ellen Mandel, book by Kathy Menino, was a smash hit at the Peterborough Players this summer! Artistic director Gus Kaikkonen directed an excellent cast---we added a Supremes-like Greek chorus and a big song and dance number, leading to a vibrant finale filled with counterpoint and fun!</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946352010-10-26T20:00:00-04:002020-01-19T09:48:15-05:00Irish Times interviews Ellen Mandel about Seamus Heaney
<p>The Irish Times - Friday, September 3, 2010
What Heaney means to me
ELLEN MANDEL
Jazz pianist and theatre composer
“There’s one poem at the moment I love, love, love: I set it to music, because it just pulled me right in. It’s from Clearances , and starts: ‘When all the others were away at mass. . .’ He describes a Sunday morning when everybody else is out of the house. He’s there with his mother, peeling potatoes. They sit at a table, doing this work, and kind of dreaming. It’s very, very quiet: there’s just the little ‘plop’ of the peeled potatoes as they drop into the cold water, one by one.
“Then it switches to the parish priest at his mother’s bedside, going hammer and tongs at the prayers for the dying. Some people are listening and some are responding, but the poet goes back in his memory to the two of them peeling potatoes, and the last line is: ‘Never closer the whole rest of our lives.’ In my own life, when my mom was ailing, I would sit with her at her little kitchen table – and then when she really was not able to handle her accounts and bills, her younger brother, my uncle, would sit with me at the table, doing that work for her. I became very close with my uncle because of that, so when I saw that poem I thought of it immediately.”</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946342010-04-17T20:00:00-04:002020-01-19T09:48:15-05:00Mandel and Almond concert
<p>Ellen Mandel and Todd Almond gave a sold out concert in Oakland April 18----several world premieres of songs with music by Mandel!! Audience loved it!!</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946332010-03-27T20:00:00-04:002020-01-19T09:48:15-05:00Ellen with lead singer of the Crystals
<p>Ellen rocks out on piano with La La Brooks, lead singer of the Crystals, doing And Then He Kissed Me!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaJ74hnSZxw</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946292009-11-22T19:00:00-05:002020-01-19T09:48:14-05:00MANDEL SONG IN CONCERT for the RAIN and the CLOUDS
<p>MANDEL's song setting of E.E. Cummings' A WIND HAS BLOWN THE RAIN AWAY was sung by Alexandra Seandrou in her concert SONGS FOR THE RAIN AND THE CLOUDS November 22nd, at St. Marks Church in the Bowery. The songs included German Lied, French Melodie, American and Greek Repertoire: Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Debussy, Faure, Mandel, Lydon, Theodorakis, Kraounakis and Kypourgos.</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946282009-10-24T20:00:00-04:002020-01-19T09:48:14-05:00Brass Butterfly
<p>Music by ELLEN MANDEL featured in a reading of THE BRASS BUTTERFLY, Oct 24 at the Wild Project, NYC.
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Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946312009-10-23T20:00:00-04:002020-01-19T09:48:14-05:00Premieres of new Mandel songs to Wallace Stevens and e.e. cummings
<p>Premieres of two new songs by ELLEN MANDEL set to poems by Wallace Stevens and e.e. cummings sung by Pamela Bob Oct 19 at Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC!</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946272009-09-19T20:00:00-04:002020-01-19T09:48:14-05:00SUMMER 2009
<p>ELLEN MANDEL created music for HEARTBREAK HOUSE and ANNE OF GREEN GABLES at the Peterborough Players, and performed her five new Ogden Nash settings at Cornelia Street Cafe in NYC this summer!
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Music by ELLEN MANDEL featured in THE BRASS BUTTERFLY at the Wild Project, NYC
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Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946302009-06-22T20:00:00-04:002020-01-19T09:48:14-05:00Mandel's music at Juilliard a hit!
<p>LOVE'S LABOURS LOST, with songs by ELLEN MANDEL,was a hit at the JUILLIARD SCHOOL in May! Ellen composed 10 songs and some instrumental music, and performed as the show pianist. The young actors perform the songs beautifully, in a finely crafted production directed by Gus Kaikkonen.
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Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946262009-05-31T20:00:00-04:002021-08-15T12:00:07-04:00Mandel Music and Lyrics for PUSS IN BOOTS and LITTLE RED
<p>LITTLE RED, by Kathy Menino, MUSIC and LYRICS by ELLEN MANDEL was produced at the Public Theatre of Maine in May, and PUSS IN BOOTS! A musical comedy version of the fable with MUSIC and LYRICS by ELLEN MANDEL, and a witty book by Kathy Menino had a sold-out NYC run FEB 28 to MARCH 14!
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Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946322009-05-16T20:00:00-04:002021-09-20T13:34:17-04:00PAMELA BOB records MANDEL and LYDON songs
<p>Vocalist and actress extraordinaire PAMELA BOB is recording the MANDEL and LYDON SONGBOOK!</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946192008-12-05T19:00:00-05:002020-01-19T09:48:14-05:00NEW CD is out!!
<p>Brite Records has released THE FIRST OF ALL MY DREAMS, a new CD of songs by Ellen Mandel to poems by E.E. Cummings, Seamus Heaney, William Butler Yeats, Glyn Maxwell, and others, including some jazz songs with lyrics and music by Mandel.
One of the songs on the CD, "Human Beings Suffer," based on a passage from Seamus Heaney's THE CURE AT TROY is one of the favorite poems of such figures as Bill Clinton and Elizabeth Edwards. It ends with "HOPE" and "BELIEVE"----perfectly in tune with President-Elect Obama's philosophy.
It's great when poetry feels so relevant!</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946252008-08-22T20:00:00-04:002020-07-02T22:54:38-04:00CINDY REILLY a HUGE HIT!
<p>CINDY REILLY, a musical version of Cinderella, music by Ellen Mandel, book and lyrics by Kaikkonen and Swartz, was a smash hit at the Peterborough Players (NH): "Cindy Reilly has all the quality of a Broadway musical...a brilliant update of the old classic...THE MUSICAL NUMBERS ARE ASTOUNDING, WITH THE MUSIC WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ELLEN MANDEL. Claire Philippe's voice is incredible as she sings her opening theme, "To Fly," and closes with "Find Your Own Voice." The song "Front Desk," performed by Philippe and Darnell Benjamin, could have been heard on any Broadway stage. Elizabeth Hallacy, as Mrs Scrubb, sings a hilarious and literally show-stopping symphony of a spell "Alacazabra."...CINDY REILLY IS A HIT.</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946202007-12-18T19:00:00-05:002021-04-21T13:00:28-04:00THE SNOWFLAKE THAT COULDN'T MELT
<p>Ellen Mandel wrote music for this wonderful new story by Daniel Pociernicki, and the two recorded the story with music in April in NYC.
It's the tale of Shimmer, an especially beautiful snowflake, and his adventures as he floats to earth.
Daniel Pociernicki presented THE SNOWFLAKE THAT COULDN'T MELT as a storytelling with music in December in San Francisco.</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946232007-11-05T19:00:00-05:002020-01-19T09:48:14-05:00Todd Almond and Ellen Mandel make their European debut at Castalia Hall, Callan, Kilkenny, Ireland!
<p>Here's big news!!!
Todd Almond and Ellen Mandel in concert
Sunday October 21, 2007 4 PM
Castalia Hall
Camphill Ballytobin, Callan, Kilkenny, Ireland
Extraordinary tenor Todd Almond and composer Ellen Mandel performed Mandel’s settings of poems by Seamus Heaney, E.E. Cummings, and others in concert at Castalia Hall, Camphill Ballytobin, Callan, Kilkenny, Ireland, Sunday October 21, 2007.
The concert included the World Premiere of Mandel’s Three Songs to Poems by William Butler Yeats and jazz songs with both music and lyrics by Mandel.
Mandel has visited Ballytobin and Callan many times, and she and Todd are thrilled to be making their European debut at Castalia Hall.</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946242007-09-21T20:00:00-04:002020-01-19T09:48:14-05:00Mandel created music for three shows at the Peterborough Players this summer
<p>Ms. Mandel created music for The Heiress, directed by Jonathan Bank, and A Doll's House and The Long Christmas Dinner, both directed by Gus Kaikkonen.
For A Doll's House, Ellen wrote a new tarentella for piano, that was played live by Todd Almond in the show.</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946222007-01-21T19:00:00-05:002020-01-19T09:48:14-05:00Mandel created music for MADRAS HOUSE
<p>Ellen Mandel composed music and created sound design for the Mint Theatre production of MADRAS HOUSE directed by Gus Kaikkonen. She worked with Kaikkonen recently on Antigone for the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, and Fallen Angels for the Peterborough Players</p>
Ellen Mandeltag:ellenmandel.com,2005:Post/61946212006-11-20T19:00:00-05:002020-01-19T09:48:14-05:00Ellen's spiritual songs available for weddings, church services and other events
<p>Numerous brides and grooms, as well as ministers and church musical directors have programed performances of my songs as part of their sacred events. This is a great honor and makes me very proud.
They've asked for performances of my settings of "i thank You God" and "i am a little church(no great cathedral" by E.E. Cummings, "Human Beings Suffer" by Seamus Heaney, "Inside My Heart" by Daniel Pociernicki, and "Traveler's Prayer" which I translated and adapted.
If you have a special event coming up and would like to program my music, please feel free to e-mail me, and we'll figure out how to get the music to you and your event.</p>
Ellen Mandel