Baritone Daniel Neer and composer Ellen Mandel celebrate the release of THE CAT AND THE MOON performing Mandel’s lyrical, jazzy, dramatic, and humorous songs to poems by Seamus Heaney, WB Yeats,e.e. cummings, Thomas Hardy, Glyn Maxwell, and Neer’s Haiku NYC. including Yeats’s sweet “The Cat and the Moon”
“Ardent, spiky, and freshly organic” NY Times
“A striking collaboration” All Things Considered
Ellen Mandel has composed music for over 60 plays, from Shakespeare to Stoppard to improv comedy, Off Broadway in NYC and at many regional theaters. Daniel Neer is a singer and writer with performances at such venues as Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Apollo, the Guggenheim Museum and on Broadway.