Now on the Witches of Lublin homepage:  The first 10 minutes of the show (with a "dummy" copy of my intro - I just recorded the real one this week, and it hasn't been mixed in yet)!  Just click & hear.

More of my endless blabbing about this project (including those Pesky Promos) here and here.

More and more stations signing up to carry this Passover ( Read more... )

Some historical background for our new audio drama, The Witches of Lublin,  that served as the writers' springboard for creating our fictional story:

Women Klezmers:

"Despite the weight of Jewish custom against women playing music in public, daughters and wives played with their fathers and husbands and women performed on their own. Some of the ( Read more... )

...well, the first 10 minutes of it, anyway.  I am thrilled beyond belief, and hope you like it.  To listen:

Just click on over to public radio's PRX page for The Witches of Lublin.

I'm afraid you must sign in to PRX to be able to listen to the whole 10-minute segment.  But PRX is pretty cool; you might end up enjoying surfing there! ETA:  You can ( Read more... )

Sue & David are still working mixing (and created SFX, and editing, and timing and refining) The Witches of Lublin, but meanwhile I just wrote and recorded a bunch of promo spots for stations to air in the days leading up to the broadcast.  I'll put a couple of them below for you to enjoy. Meanwhile, I know you're dying to appreciate the Finer ( Read more... )

Many thanks to wonderful you in Rochester, NY, who wrote to your local station WXXI to let them know about  our new audio drama, The Witches of Lublin!  The program director there hadn't known about the program - and thanks to your letter, she's now asking about airing the show in April!

My producer is laughing at me because I'm surprised that this ( Read more... )

The Witches of Lublin:  a new musical audio drama written by Ellen Kushner, Yale Strom (who's also our music director & composer & violinist) & Elizabeth Schwartz!  Long in the making, and now recorded and preparing for release to public radio stations nationwide as a
free Spring Holiday Passover radio special!

We're in Post Production right now ( Read more... )

Remember right before your parents' parties, where any time you reached your hand out to something in the 'fridge, your mom shouted, "Don't touch that -- it's for Company!" ?  (Man, I hated Company.  They got all the good stuff - howcome we never got confetti pasta salad, or little parfait puddings?)

Well, right now my 'fridge is full of Cheeses of ( Read more... )