A Sampler from Brite Records

©2002, 25:12, $15.00 + $3.00 postage/handling, available by email at mandelandlydon@earthlink.net or by snail mail to Brite Records, 311 East 9th Street, #2F, New York, NY 10003. (Make check payable to Ellen Mandel, and be sure to include a shipping address.)

CVNC has just received an advance sampler CD containing nine songs featured by Alan Cheuse in his holiday show on NPR's "All things Considered," subsequent to his attendance at a live performance of the works which generated the CD, and whose full version, with six more songs and full liner notes (and texts, we hope), will be available in March.

We will wait - as hard as it is to do so! - until then to give a full review, but suffice it to say that we have here significant new compositional and performance talents, in the classical arena in any event, for the artists are both well-established in the (musical) theater world.

Marvin J. Ward