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ellenkushnerSue & 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 Points of the Art:
Promotional spots for public radio stations have to be :30 or :60, to fit into those little spots left by carefully-timed NPR breaks, etc.
But really they're just :20 or :50, because you have to leave a :05-:10 music bed for the local announcer to be able to say: You can hear The Witches of Lublin at 5:00 Saturday/tomorrow/today right here on WXXX, 98.6 FM.
Yes, you can grab a few critical seconds by reading extra-fast - or by cutting those fantastic adjectives you know you had no business putting in in the first place.
Yes, it all timed out perfectly when you read it at home/at your desk. That's because you were muttering, not using your Good Radio Voice.
And, really, your :50 copy is more like :30 because you need to leave a few seconds for establishing music at the top . . . and for the clips of the actual actors delivering cool excerpted lines.
MUSIC ESTABLISH
EK: “The Witches of Lublin,” a musical klezmer drama for the Passover season:
MUSIC BEAT
EK: It’s 1797 . . . and three Jewish women are playing in the marketplace!
SFX:Clapping
Rivke: Thank you, thank you kind people...
Sorele: We need that money to pay the Count’s taxes!
EK "The Witches of Lublin" offers a glimpse into lost Jewish women’s lives in Eastern Europe. It’s a story as ancient as myth, and as modern as every family that struggles to hold together in a world of strife and conflicting loyalties . . . as three generations of women discover that music - and love - have a power greater than all of them.
SOFIA: Not all Poles hate Jews.
EK: Featuring original klezmer music by Yale Strom.
MRS. K: There you are, Rivke! Tch Have you been playing music somewhere?
EK: “The Witches of Lublin” stars Tovah Feldshuh [which, against all odds, is pronounced FELD-shoe], and features Simon Jones, Barbara Rosenblat . . . with special guest, author Neil Gaiman. [Complete Cast bios here]
I’m Ellen Kushner; this Passover season, join me for “The Witches of Lublin.”
[:05 MUSIC BED]
:60
MRS. K: There you are, Rivke! Tch! …Have you been playing music somewhere?
That’s what everyone in Lublin wants to know: Has Rivke, a poor Jewish widow, been out playing their joyous music in public with her 2 daughters, when they should be home preparing for the Passover holiday? Well, of course they have! And in “The Witches of Lublin” - starring Tovah Feldshuh as Rivke - we learn what happens in 18th century Poland to women who dare to step beyond the bounds of social norms and into a world of music . . . and of spirit. I’m Ellen Kushner. Join me on this radio station for “The Witches of Lublin,” a moving story of love, family and deliverance for the Passover season.
* * *
I hope your appetite has been whetted. By next week we should have posted on our website a list of stations who plan to carry it . . . And if you'd like to help add to that list by writing to your local station, please click here. It really works: We've had several stations say they were alerted to the show by interested listeners who, my intelligence network revealed, were YOU.
We also, aherm, have bills to pay - and promotional items to print up, and, well, expenses. Please don't break your piggybanks to send us your last $5 - but if you've got a few bucks for a worthy arts endeavor, contributions are tax-deductible, and we'll appreciate it greatly. There are very cool thank you items for generous donors of $250 and up - if that's possible for you, please contact me and I'll fill you in.
Promotional spots for public radio stations have to be :30 or :60, to fit into those little spots left by carefully-timed NPR breaks, etc.
But really they're just :20 or :50, because you have to leave a :05-:10 music bed for the local announcer to be able to say: You can hear The Witches of Lublin at 5:00 Saturday/tomorrow/today right here on WXXX, 98.6 FM.
Yes, you can grab a few critical seconds by reading extra-fast - or by cutting those fantastic adjectives you know you had no business putting in in the first place.
Yes, it all timed out perfectly when you read it at home/at your desk. That's because you were muttering, not using your Good Radio Voice.
And, really, your :50 copy is more like :30 because you need to leave a few seconds for establishing music at the top . . . and for the clips of the actual actors delivering cool excerpted lines.
Fortunately, I am a master at this craft.
That said, not sure which of the many we wrote & recorded will actually make it to air - but here are hot contenders:
MUSIC ESTABLISH
EK: “The Witches of Lublin,” a musical klezmer drama for the Passover season:
MUSIC BEAT
EK: It’s 1797 . . . and three Jewish women are playing in the marketplace!
SFX:Clapping
Rivke: Thank you, thank you kind people...
Sorele: We need that money to pay the Count’s taxes!
EK "The Witches of Lublin" offers a glimpse into lost Jewish women’s lives in Eastern Europe. It’s a story as ancient as myth, and as modern as every family that struggles to hold together in a world of strife and conflicting loyalties . . . as three generations of women discover that music - and love - have a power greater than all of them.
SOFIA: Not all Poles hate Jews.
EK: Featuring original klezmer music by Yale Strom.
MRS. K: There you are, Rivke! Tch Have you been playing music somewhere?
EK: “The Witches of Lublin” stars Tovah Feldshuh [which, against all odds, is pronounced FELD-shoe], and features Simon Jones, Barbara Rosenblat . . . with special guest, author Neil Gaiman. [Complete Cast bios here]
I’m Ellen Kushner; this Passover season, join me for “The Witches of Lublin.”
[:05 MUSIC BED]
:60
MRS. K: There you are, Rivke! Tch! …Have you been playing music somewhere?
That’s what everyone in Lublin wants to know: Has Rivke, a poor Jewish widow, been out playing their joyous music in public with her 2 daughters, when they should be home preparing for the Passover holiday? Well, of course they have! And in “The Witches of Lublin” - starring Tovah Feldshuh as Rivke - we learn what happens in 18th century Poland to women who dare to step beyond the bounds of social norms and into a world of music . . . and of spirit. I’m Ellen Kushner. Join me on this radio station for “The Witches of Lublin,” a moving story of love, family and deliverance for the Passover season.
* * *
I hope your appetite has been whetted. By next week we should have posted on our website a list of stations who plan to carry it . . . And if you'd like to help add to that list by writing to your local station, please click here. It really works: We've had several stations say they were alerted to the show by interested listeners who, my intelligence network revealed, were YOU.
We also, aherm, have bills to pay - and promotional items to print up, and, well, expenses. Please don't break your piggybanks to send us your last $5 - but if you've got a few bucks for a worthy arts endeavor, contributions are tax-deductible, and we'll appreciate it greatly. There are very cool thank you items for generous donors of $250 and up - if that's possible for you, please contact me and I'll fill you in.
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“Bozhe moi I can’t believe my eyes, those are Jewish women playing!”
In 18th Century Poland, women don’t ordinarily play music in public. But “The Witches of Lublin” are no ordinary women. I’m Ellen Kushner; join me for “The Witches of Lublin”, a (new) audio drama for the Passover season starring Tovah Feldshuh…with original music by Yale Strom.