The White Knuckle Sandwich building, drawn here for a postcard for a gig at the Fez, in NYC.  And here it is in color, for a slide show from our performance at the Kitchen, Millennial Mouthful.

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Anne Shapiro, Jennifer Duffy, and I joined forces in the ’90s as White Knuckle Sandwich. We performed in many theaters and clubs in NYC, including frequent shows at the Duplex and the Fez. We wrote a jingle for MTV, and had a couple of songs in the movie Bad Bride. Our 1999 CD had 22 […]

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This song was first performed as “I’m Sorry Now I Spoiled the Santa Cake.”  At a Christmas party, cartoonist Michael Kupperman and I, under the influence of stimulants, altered a cake depicting Santa Claus in an unflattering way.  Our hostess did not approve.  The song was first performed by White Knuckle Sandwich, with Anne Shapiro […]

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The Oberlin Dance Collective performed at Sonoma State College in 1977.  I sang a couple of songs, and contributed a theater piece, “Hide Hide The Cow’s Outside.”  And it looks as if I lettered the program, too.

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This is a bare little song, on a text I found in an old children’s encyclopedia, The Book of Wonders (1915): Why do we have to die?  Death must come to all things that have life.  All matter in the world is either living or dead.  Inanimate things do not change.  They remain always the […]

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A setting of my translation of a poem by La Fontaine (one of his tales, not one of his fables), for voice and ‘cello. Once Sister Jean had borne a child, Her piety was unexcelled. The other nuns, though undefiled, Had cravings they had not dispelled. “Our Jean,” the Abbess said with pride, “Has set […]

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Do you want to be like the inchworm?  We have a rather glum song here, as befits the subject. The inchworm’s life is mild and meek; His prospects look a little bleak. All day he creeps, and creeps, and creeps, And creeps, and creeps, and then he sleeps. When morning comes, he wakes and eats […]

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This is taken from my 1993 show, Eddie Unchained.  In this selection, Victoria, a caterer, is preparing refreshments for Eddie’s birthday party.  Victoria was played by Ivy Austin; she was accompanied by a string quartet of Robert Zubrycki, Cenovia Cummins, Carol Benner, and Benjamin Whittenburg.

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A setting of a curious nonsense poem, attributed to Richard Corbett (1582-1635).  The accompaniment can be played either by piano or by violin and ‘cello.  Here’s the first bit.

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A querulous little rumination, that begins like this.

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