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A Wonderful Birthday Celebration!

The two performances of Livin’ It, the collection of 26 of my songs which were performed at Theater555 on W42nd Street on September 11th and 12th were wonderful, and the second was timed to land on my 100th Birthday. It was a terrific way to celebrate. I am very grateful to Denise Puriceli, who’s been such a staunch advocate of my work the past few years, to Mary Kunicki who introduced us, to Eric Krebs the warm generous producer (how often do you hear those words together?) who made this all happen, to Hannah Ryan who worked with Denise to whittle down from a very long list of hundreds of songs to a manageable number and weave them together into a compelling 80 minutes, and to the amazing cast - Erica Spyres, Cassondra James, Sydney Borchers, and Nikita Burshteyn - who did such an amazing job with these songs on just 20 hours of rehearsal! Thank You!

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Lost and Found - "Three Musketeers" for Sesame Street

Back in the early days of Sesame Street I wrote some songs on spec and sent them in hoping that they’d be interested in some of them, or ask me to write for the show occasionally. I never heard from them. This one for three - um, four muppets - still makes me laugh.

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The Richard Mills / Mills Music Demos

I’ve forgotten the circumstances around the making of these two demos, on opposite sides of a slightly scratchy 78 RPM disk, but the label says Richard Mills, Mills Music. It must have been the early 1960’s. I have no idea who the studio singer was, but she did such a great job!

Two Little People, or Its A Miracle was from a very early show I wrote with my husband called Love From Sandy.

David, of course, was for my husband David Dachs.

Click the image above to jump to the recordings, or visit the Recordings page.

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Marvin Rosen, long-time host of Classical Discoveries, says "I hope you will join me this Tuesday morning, August 10, 2021 from 7am till 10am for Classical Discoveries. Here is a list of some of the works and composers to be presented: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra (2007) by American composer, Lee Actor (1952- ) Divertimenti In Italia (String Quartet No. 6) (2012) by American composer, Curt Cacioppo (1951- ) Concertino for alto saxophone and orchestra by Brazilian composer, Radames Gnattali (1906-1988) Moods for violin, viola and cello (2010) by American composer, Julie Mandel, Utopia Symphony for chorus and orchestra (2005) by Russian composer, Vladimir Martynov (1946- ) Plus music by: Priscilla Alden Beach, Betsy Jolas, Max Nagl, Cristina Spinei and others if time allows.

On 103.3FM Princeton NJ. or www. wprb.com Celebrating its 25th year on the air!".

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Clearly intended as special material for a duo like Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, a publisher named Larry Coleman at TRO/Dartmouth that handled my work for a while must have produced this studio-made demo so he could shop it around to artists that might be interested. On the unmarked paper sleeve in barely legible pencil are the names of singers John Gary and Gale Garnett (who both had their share of records and hits), and for some reason also trumpeter and bandleader Al Hurt (I have no idea why, since the track is recorded with just a piano, one of life’s little mysteries). I’m guessing that means that Gary and Garnett are the ones who sang on this demo, and if so, they did a great job! Then it took a day of searching around the house to find the sheet music. Its fun to hear it after all this time! Enjoy. 

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