RESUMES: Actor - Composer - Teaching Artist - SHOWS: beTwixt, beTween & beTWAIN
- Langston Hughes - Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! -The Tell-Tale Heart - Beyond - The Song of Job
Film/TV:
Normandy (the Great Crusade)
Rote Erde
Kraftprobe
Musicals:
beTwixt, beTween & beTWAIN
The Tell-Tale Heart
Kidnapgirl
Heidi
a.o.
Classical:
Richard II
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
Doctor Faustus
a.o.
Dramas:
Nosferatu
Garbage, The City and Death
Salem
A (A Scarlett Letter Carnival)
a.o.
Comedies:
Only Love Will Do
LibidOff
Selftorture and Strenuous Exercise
Landscape of the Body
Bohemia on Wry
a.o.
for more see resume
in New York:
I Too Sing America
Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!
beTwixt, beTween & beTWAIN
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Song of Job
Beyond - a little night opera
Boroughed Tales - Lucky Hans
When Thou, My Music,
Music Play'st
a.o.
recipient of FringeNYC 06's
Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music and Lyrics
in Germany:
Once Upon a Frog
Gurkenkoenig
Jenseits
Witches
a.o.
Only composer represented twice at the Hamburg Musical Festival
(1997 and 2000)
for more see resume
"moving ... compelling ... haunting ... powerful" - Backstage
Click here for more info / reviews / lyrics
Listen to excerpts here
Watch complete concert performance on YouTube!
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5
Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9 - Part 10
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The Blues According to Langston Hughes
words: Langston Hughes music: Danny Ashkenasi
WATCH THE YOUTUBE SELECTIONS:
Songs from the South - Harlem Dreams
Madam Songs - Civil Rights Suite - Love & Peace
LISTEN TO MORE EXCERPTS HERE!
"It seems that Danny Ashkenasi's ambition is to compose the Great American Literary Songbook and he is up to the task."
- Mark Savitt, Hi Drama!
Listen to 3 songs from the
two women musical comedy
HERE
(includes 105 witchy illustrations!)
Directed and Music Directed most of his own musicals as well as many other productions.
Founded
Fredrick Byers Productions
with his husband Edward Elder, mounting many concerts, workshops, and full productions of musical works in New York.
Resident Artist with the Metropolitan Opera Guild
and
Manhattan New Music Project
Choral Director at the Children's School in Brooklyn
for more see resume
"Billie and Dolly"
includes three of Danny's songs: Keeper of Your Love,
Sweep Me Off My Feet & Mississippi Song
beTwixt, beTween & beTWAIN
"Evocative and exciting ... gorgeous ... beautiful ...
A musical voice that commands attention" - NYtheatre.com
read the rave reviews on the Twainpage
Watch the beTWAIN Mini-Movie Here!
More select beTWAIN YouTube excerpts:
ACT ONE: 1 2 3 4 5 6
ACT TWO: 1 2 3 4
hear more beTWAIN music here
Danny's suite for Harp and Flute
has been released on the cd
Reisen in Fantasie und Gegenwart
recorded by the Duo Elysee
click here for an audio sample
email CDRoloff@gmx.de
to order a cd
a musical play by Herman Melville and Danny Ashkenasi
Listen to musical excerpts here ! (note the icon)
"Once Upon a Frog"
had its German language premiere as "Es War Einmal ein Frosch"
at the Wetzlarer Festpiele July 2009
Listen to musical excerpts here! (note the icon)
by Anne Megyas