Author Archives: dannyashkenasi

About dannyashkenasi

I'm a composer with over 40 years experience creating music theater. I'm also an actor, writer, director, producer, teacher and general enthusiast for the arts.

P&P in CANADA

Posted on October 25, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” plays Thursday Night, 9pm at the Ravenwood Film Festival in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario Click Here for Info and Tickets It’s been a busy October for my horror musical short film Edgar … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres | Tagged Canada, festival, film, musicabre, October, Ontario, Queen of Hearts Club, Ravenwood, Sault Ste Marie, The Pit and the Pendulum | Leave a comment

P&P wins MUSIC AWARD at P2S

Posted on October 21, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” wins Best Music Scoring at the Pitch To Screen Film Awards in New York “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre“, my (deep breath intake) short film musical adaptation of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres | Tagged Andreia Gibau, Awards, cinematography, Dolby Theater, Edgar Allan Poe, Editing, Edward Elder, Film Festival, horror, Jason Chua, Kristiana Roemer, music scoring, musicabre, musical, Pitch to Screen, short film, Stolis Hadjicharalambous, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart | Leave a comment

LA P&P Q&A

Posted on October 17, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

In Depth Q&A about “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” at the LA Indie FilmFest After the well-received screening of my musical short film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” at … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres | Tagged Alexander Chinnici, Bela Bartok, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Edgar Allan Poe, Editing, Edward Elder, Erin Carrere, Henry Borriello, horror, Jimmy McCoy, Kurt Weill, LA Indie FilmFest, Los Angeles, miniature, mirror mask, musicabre, musical, Q&A, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart | Leave a comment

Watch (and vote for!) P&P at P2S!

Posted on October 12, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” screens on-line at Pitch To Screen Film Festival through Monday Vote for its nominations in 3 categories! My short film musical Edgar Allan Poe adaptation (breathe!) “The Pit and the Pendulum – … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres | Tagged Award, cinematography, Edgar Allan Poe, Editing, Film Festival, Jason Chua, music, musicabre, nomination, on-line, Pitch to Screen, Stolis Hadjicharalambous, The Pit and the Pendulum | Leave a comment

P&P in LA this FRIDAY

Posted on October 11, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” screens this Friday in LA, followed by a Q&A LA Indie Film Fest is screening my musical Edgar Allan Poe adaptation this Friday, October 13th, at 7:30pm at The Other Space, 916 … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres | Tagged adaptation, Edgar Allan Poe, Film Festival, FilmFest, horror, indie, LA, Los Angeles, musicabre, musical, Q&A, screening, The Other Space, The Pit and the Pendulum | Leave a comment

P&P wins BEST MUSIC at HAUNTED HOUSE FEARFEST

Posted on October 8, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” won the award for Best Music at last night’s awards ceremony of the Haunted House FearFest at the Midnight Theater in New York City. Here is a video of my acceptance speech: … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres | Tagged actor, Award, best, Best Music, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Elder, ensemble, FearFest, Film Festival, Haunted House, Haunttv, Hudson Yards, Jeremy Parsons, Midnight Theatre, music, musicabre, nomination, Renee Huff, The Pit and the Pendulum | Leave a comment

P&P in HAMBURG

Posted on October 4, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” screens Thursday in the antikyno in Hamburg Schocktober is being celebrated at the independent cinema antikyno in Hamburg, Germany. And this Thursday, October 5, at 7pm they are scheduling their shortfilm-slam Horror … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres | Tagged adaptation, antikyno, applause, Cinema, Edgar Allan Poe, Germany, Hamburg, horror, musicabre, musical, Schocktober, short film, The Pit and the Pendulum | Leave a comment

Catherine Gayer on the Radio

Posted on October 3, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

The German radio station Deutschlandfunk has posted a 55 minute program interviewing the opera soprano Catherine Gayer, and playing excerpts from her fantastic 60+ year career, highlighting her work with contemporary music. Listen to it here. Oh, Catherine Gayer just … Continue reading →

Posted in Beginnings, Chamber Works, Live! On Stage, Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News | Tagged 20th Century, Albern Berg, Alberto Ginestera, Aribert Reimann, Arnold Schoenberg, Berlin, Catherine Gayer, Debussy, Deutsche Oper, Deutschlandfunk, Die Soldaten, Elegy for Young Lovers, Gershwin, Intolleranza, Isang Jun, Leonard Stein, Luigi Nono, music, Opera, perfect pitch, Ravel, Stravinsky, Sylvia Plath, Tadeusz Baird, Webern, Zimmermann | 2 Comments

Love and Hope in Barcelona

Posted on September 30, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” wins Best Experimental Short Film at the Love and Hope International Film Festival in Beautiful Barcelona Above is a video of my acceptance speech upon winning Best Experimental Short Film at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Poe Musicabres, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged Alberto Bellavia, Alfred Hitchcock, Award, Barcelona, Cathedral, Catherine Gayer, Chuti Tiu, Cinema Maldi, Darwin Reina, Dean Addams, Edward Elder, Erin Carere, Experimental, festival, Film Award, flamenco, Gaudi, Gothic Quarter, Internatioal, Jon Vamvas, LHIFF, Love and Hope International Film Festival, Marisa Marti, Museum of Catalan Music, musicabre, Olga Montes, Parc de la Ciutadella, Passeig de Gracia, Plaça d'Espanya, Placa de St Jaume, Placa Reial, short film, Sonia Rescalvo Zafra, Steve Wilbur, tapas, The Pit and the Pendulum, Vincenzo Carubia, Will Grave | 3 Comments

P&P wins L’HIFF Award

Posted on September 24, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

QUICK UPDATE: “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” wins “Best Experimental Short Film” at the Love and Hope International Film Festival in Barcelona. More posts on the festival and fabulous Barcelona to come!

Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres | Tagged a musicabre, Awards Daily, Barcelona, best, Experimental, festival, film, Film Festival, Hope, International, LHIFF, Love, short, The Pit and the Pendulum | Leave a comment

P&P – DAY 9 – The Day the Hair Went Bye-Bye!

Posted on September 14, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Alt Title: The Day the Hair Got Snipped, Shorn and Shaved Off! The announcement, take one (with AD Charlotte Purser): Day 9 in the 10 days shooting “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” was fully devoted to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Beginnings, Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Poe Musicabres | Tagged bald, Beard, Charlotte Purser, Ed Elder, Edgar Allan Poe, Hair, Hair We Share, Han Jang Houston, Henry Borriello, Jimmy McCoy, Kojak, musicabre, Queer Eye, Sami Eddy, shave, Telly Savalas | Leave a comment

The Art of Pompeii

Posted on September 11, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Part 4 of the Pompeii Series Plenty of ancient Roman art was on display in the first three posts of the streets and homes of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But much more art dug up by the archeologists – sculptures and … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged amphitheatre, Ancient Rome, art, brass, brothels, erotica, Herculaneum, maenad, mythology, Naples, nymph, Pompeii, portraiture, pottery, religion, satyr, sculpture, sensuality, still life, wall paintings | Leave a comment

HERCULANEUM

Posted on September 7, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Part 3 of the Pompeii Series Above is the entrance gate into the Herculaneum museum/park, and below is the first view one gets of the ruins walking down the path to the official museum entrance. Herculaneum, like its more famous … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged altars, ancient, Augustales, bathhouse, chariots, Ed Elder, Ercolano, eruption, Herculaneum, Marcus Nonius Balbus, mosaics, museum, paintings, Pompeii, pyroclastic flow, ruins, skeletons, statues, thermopolium, Versuvius, Volcano | Leave a comment

The Homes of Pompeii

Posted on September 1, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Post 2 of the Pompeii Series In the first post we explored the streets of Pompeii, with the temples, the Forum, the amphitheatres, bathhouses and the Coliseum. This time we will look at the homes of the inhabitants of Pompeii. … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged Actaeon, ancient, art, cistern, courtyard, Diana, Ed Elder, erotica, guard dogs, mosaic, museum, Painting, photography, plaster cast, Pompeii, rituals, ruins, skeleton, slave, victims, Villa dei Misteri, Volcano, wall painting | Leave a comment

The Streets of Pompeii

Posted on August 25, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Post 1 of the Pompeii Series Pompeii. I wrote a song about it (for my Mark Twain musical) long before I finally visited it this April. And now finally I am posting my blog piece about the visit – blog … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged ampitheatre, ancient, Apollo, ash, barracks, bathhouse, bodies, chariot, Coliseum, Edward Elder, Forum, gladiator, ISIS, Italy, Jupiter, museum, phallus, photography, plaster cast, Pompeii, pyroclastic flow, ruins, stepping stones, Temple, Thermae, thermopolium, Vesuvius, Volcano | Leave a comment

P&P @ GUTTERCAST

Posted on August 23, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” screens for free on-line this Saturday courtesy of GUTTERCAST Gutterbliss, an art collective in Wilmington, North Carolina, is holding its annual Guttercast film festival at Jengo’s Playhouse in downtown Wilmington this Saturday, … Continue reading →

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