Praise for TING TWUSTERS

From THE JOURNAL OF SINGING:

“Dramatically  different… These pieces are gems indeed…TING TWUSTERS: TEN TONGUE-NUMBING NUMBERS, for voice and piano by Mary Feinsinger, a composer/lyricist at the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York City, is wacky and wonderfully witty. Feinsinger has created a jazzy, inventive, and clever set of ten short pieces out of some very funny and well-known tongue twisters…            The vocal lines and rhythmic settings of the texts show a keen sense of the tactile feel for language. The piano parts are inventive and have melodic, rhythmic and harmonic independence that translates what might be a diction exercise by a lesser composer into something much more intellectual and artistic. Though they are terrific teaching pieces for students, their sophistication would provide a hilarious contrasting set on any recital and are guaranteed to get a hail of hollers rather than a smattering of snickers from the audience.” (Sharon Mabry)

“These ten short songs are settings of familiar, and not so familiar, tongue twisters. It is a clever idea, and the songs are amusing and light. The vocal lines are syllabically set, often using the “patter song” device of rapid delivery of words on a single tone, an approach perfectly suited to saying a “ting twuster” as fast as possible. The piano parts are mostly supportive of the voice, occasionally descriptive of the text, and straightforward in general. Most of the songs are quite easy, though two or three have rhythmic intricacies. These would be cute encore songs where something light, fast, and funny is needed, or choices could be made for a short group. ”  (Judith Carman)

Praise for KOL DODI:

“…I am taking the opportunity to thank you for Kol Dodi. What a superb collection! Many thanks on a beautiful job!” –Cantor Judy
Daniel, Columbia MD

“The music is strikingly lovely. — Rabbi  Jim Cohn. Greenville, SC

“Mary Feinsinger has done four settings from the "Open Door" Haggadah -- and her Miriam Han'viah is terrific -- we just performed it tonight, and my congregation loved it.”—Cantor Susan Cohen DeStefano,  Englewood NJ

“I just love your music!!”
Cantor Karen  Dworsky ­—Thousand Oaks, CA 

“I received lots of wonderful ideas and many, many referred to your work. 
… I am a fan and have sung a number of your pieces for the High Holy Days etc.  —Cantor Lisa B. Segal, Brooklyn, NY

“… I sang your "Arise and Come Away" from the Kol Dodi
anthology with flute and guitar at a wedding this past Sunday.  It was so lovely -- thank you!