"Unforgettable
and unmissable.

Broadway musical theater at its white-hot best.
This is a show that must be seen."

—Clive Barnes, NY Post

she can stand quite nicely alongside
Marta Sebestyen and Kristy McColl,
and that's exalted company. Her a capel-
la reading of "Mayne Yunge Yorn" is
worth the price of the album.
And the Flying Bulgars are in top
form as well, particularly trumpeter
David Buchbinder and drummer Bucky
Berger, both of whom can take you
seamlessly from Bukovina to Birdland
and back again in only a few measures.
A terrific set and a lot of fun.
***x:xx:x

Tsufit: Under the Mediterranean Sky
(Hummingbird Productions)
Imagine a female Jewish Loudon
Wainwright III and you have some idea
of what this Canadian singer-songwriter
is like. After an unpromising start — an
unconvincing cover of Leonard Cohen's
"Dance Me to the End of Love" makes
her sound like the little girl playing
dress-up in Mommy's clothes, and a
medley of Israeli peace songs is insipid
— this suddenly turns into a collection
of very clever, witty and often biting
originals about love, marriage and fami-
ly, delivered with skill and individuality.
On the evidence of her debut set,
Tsufit has the makings of a genuine,
funny and original voice.

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kaataiositeu D
"Theatrical perfection.

Ruth Wieder Magan: Songs to the
Invisible God (Sounds True),
This is quite simply one Of the most
remarkable albums of Jewish music I
have ever heard. Wieder Magan has a
haunting voice somewhere between
mezzo and contralto; on this recording
she sings a cappella versions of-folk and
cantorial settings of various sacred texts
in a medieval monastery in Ein Kerem.
The result is haunting, moving,
sometimes scary. If you have been look-
ing for a Jewish recording that would be
the equivalent of the various "Chant"
sets that have been all the rage for the
past couple of years, this is it. The clos-
est to a mystical experience I have had
listening to music since the first time I
heard Coltrane's A Love Supreme, the
Faure Requiem or the choral movement
of Beethoven's Ninth. Astonishing.
*****

***** ...Excellent; a must-buy
Very good; you'll
x:x***
probably want to own this
Good; buy if this
x:xx:x*
genre ofmusic pleases you
Fair; only for collectors
x:x
of the artist's complete works
Poor; not even at gunpoint
No stars ...There oughta be a law

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Incredibly, Patinkin leaves you wanting more. Bravo!"

—Jacques le Sourd, Gannett Journal News

"The most scintillating vocal performance
on the New York stage right now!"

—Fintan O'Toole, Daily News

"A haunting theatrical experience
performed in Yiddish."

—Michael Sommers, The Star-Ledger

Inspired and emotionally supercharged."

—Stephen Holden, The New York Times

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1999

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