[Julie Kane]

Please excuse the auntly/godmotherly pride, but I just have to announce that the CD "Snow White Turns Sixty: Hollis Sings Trumbore" (three art song cycles composed by my 23-year-old niece Dale Trumbore, sung by soprano Gillian Hollis with Dale accompanying on piano) is now out and getting sensational reviews in the classical music press. The first cycle sets several poems by Sara Teasdale; the title sequence, 12 poems about fairy tales by 9 contemporary women poets (including Annie Finch, Barbara Crooker, Diane Thiel, and me with my poem "The Mermaid Story"); and the third, poems by Robin Myers. The CD is available for download on Amazon, CD Baby, and iTunes, or you can order it as a hard copy CD through Dale's website, http://www.daletrumbore.com/Dale_Tru..._Trumbore.html.

Here are links to the reviews from the first two weeks:

Christian Carey, Sequenza 21:
http://www.sequenza21.com/carey/2011...xty-cd-review/

Interview in New ClassicLA:
http://newclassicla.wordpress.com/20...e-turns-sixty/

Ronni Reich, The Newark Star-Ledger:
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/musi...bottoms_c.html

Chip Michael, Interchanging Idioms: Classical Music for the 21st Century:
http://interchangingidioms.blogspot....now-white.html

Chris McGovern, The Glass:
http://chrismcgovernmusic.wordpress....ings-trumbore/

Chamber Musician Today:
http://chambermusiciantoday.com/cd-reviews/

[Tony Barnstone]

From the clips I've seen, it seems a remarkable project. Congratulations!

[Seree Zohar]

Julie
it's lovely to be proud of family achievement! and that's no small one...

is this it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eilWarxUBs and Bluebeard's Wife, and Where's Wolf - lovely!!! Congrats to the Julie-family-artists!

[Julie Kane]

Yes, Seree--"Snow White Turns Sixty" was staged last fall by the University of Southern California Chamber Opera group--its premiere. There are several video clips of numbers from the production on YouTube. The CD, though, is professionally recorded and sound engineered, with an incredible soprano (Gillian Hollis) singing the whole thing.

[Charlotte Innes]

Julie, I've come late to this--I can't believe I didn't know about the USC performance! They do keep things quiet over there. At any rate, many congrats to you and all involved. It all sounds fabulous.

Charlotte