"Witches" wins AudioFile Earphones* Award!
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Hot from the "Audiobook Review" pages of AudioFile Magazine:
THE WITCHES OF LUBLIN
Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Schwartz, Yale Strom
Read by Tovah Feldshuh, Simon Jones, Barbara Rosenblat, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Boskey, Joanne Borts, Yelena Shmulenson, Joyce Feurring, Tim Jerome, et al.
In a story at once tragic, mystically uplifting, and historically accurate, Tovah Feldshuh plays a widowed Jewish woman in eighteenth-century Poland who, with her daughters and granddaughter, defies tradition by performing music for non-Jews at a nearby town to earn money for Passover provisions. The all-star cast includes Simon Jones as a tyrannical nobleman and Barbara Rosenblat as the self-righteous wife of a butcher. Neil Gaiman portrays the nobleman’s son, who falls in love with the nightingale-voiced granddaughter (Elizabeth Boskey) and requests that the four women perform at his coming-of-age party. With its powerful performances—woven with Yale Strom’s music, touching script, and outstanding direction, THE WITCHES OF LUBLIN is a story that will leave listeners both haunted and inspired. S.E.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2011]
*Our producer tells me that Audie Earphones are the equivalent of a starred Kirkus review!
You can pre-order the CD here - or wait a couple weeks and it should be up for downloading on Audible.com...
Sorry not to be more scintillating lately - I'm on Week #3 of that kinda-cold-not-quite-flu/all coughing all the time virus that seems to be going around . . . Still managed to have a great Passover with lots of family in town - and plans continue for the Welcome to Bordertown launch this month . . . . Thanks again for all your help getting our Witches on the air -- we're hoping to get even more stations next year, when they see all our cool awards (and we raise a bit more marketing $$) . . . !
THE WITCHES OF LUBLIN
Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Schwartz, Yale Strom
Read by Tovah Feldshuh, Simon Jones, Barbara Rosenblat, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Boskey, Joanne Borts, Yelena Shmulenson, Joyce Feurring, Tim Jerome, et al.
In a story at once tragic, mystically uplifting, and historically accurate, Tovah Feldshuh plays a widowed Jewish woman in eighteenth-century Poland who, with her daughters and granddaughter, defies tradition by performing music for non-Jews at a nearby town to earn money for Passover provisions. The all-star cast includes Simon Jones as a tyrannical nobleman and Barbara Rosenblat as the self-righteous wife of a butcher. Neil Gaiman portrays the nobleman’s son, who falls in love with the nightingale-voiced granddaughter (Elizabeth Boskey) and requests that the four women perform at his coming-of-age party. With its powerful performances—woven with Yale Strom’s music, touching script, and outstanding direction, THE WITCHES OF LUBLIN is a story that will leave listeners both haunted and inspired. S.E.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2011]
*Our producer tells me that Audie Earphones are the equivalent of a starred Kirkus review!
You can pre-order the CD here - or wait a couple weeks and it should be up for downloading on Audible.com...
Sorry not to be more scintillating lately - I'm on Week #3 of that kinda-cold-not-quite-flu/all coughing all the time virus that seems to be going around . . . Still managed to have a great Passover with lots of family in town - and plans continue for the Welcome to Bordertown launch this month . . . . Thanks again for all your help getting our Witches on the air -- we're hoping to get even more stations next year, when they see all our cool awards (and we raise a bit more marketing $$) . . . !
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