Welcome to my new site! I have refreshed my site to include all the information that you could get before, including my bio, gig calendar and information about Mix n’ Match music, and now I have a blog to boot! All here, at the new and improved sudhalter.com. Thanks for taking a look around, and I hope you will come back often and see what I’m up to.
PLEASE NOTE that the audio files are currently disabled, but will be working shortly. In the meantime, for audio, go to www.myspace.com/carolsudhalter, or call me for copies of the classical samples.
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December 2, 2009 - New CD is nearly ready – just waiting for shipment from Rome. “Carol Sudhalter: TheOctave Tunes“. 7-page booklet, 13 tunes including 2 Christmas songs. Vito Di Modugno special guest on Hammond Organ. Order from this site until the album goes on sale at CD Baby and other sites, in a month’s time.
September 6, 2009 – Spent a rather horizontal summer paying my full attention to some minor but annoying medical problems that were interfering with blowing the horns, reading music, touring. One doesn’t often think about all the weeks of preparation and follow-up that this type of decision involves: visits to doctors, blood and other workups, prep actions, follow-up meds and eyedrops, rest, rest, rest. So, voila, summer’s gone. It was exactly the right time to do all this (assuming that there will be other summers). It all turned out perfectly.
The good news that came out of all this ‘free’ time was that I edited and mixed all tunes on my new CD, to be mastered and produced by Alfa Music, Rome, in the next months. It will be out before December and will be a great Christmas gift. Special guest of note, Vito Di Modugno, Hammond organist. Other hints: vocalist Marti Mabin sings four beautiful tunes including one for Christmas, and another fine vocalist, Elena Camerin, sings a special tune in Spanish. That’s all I’ll give out for now…except you can put in an advance order if you drop me a line at carolsudhalter@hotmail.com
March 16, 2009 – Long weekend in Elkins, WV with my own band.. Most fulfilling, enjoyable and other worldly. We played at the Randolph County Community Arts Center, some great arrangements by Joe Tranchina, great trombone playing by Chris Rinaman, the whole band was swinging and happening. We went through about 18 tunes, Cole Porter, Arlen, Kern, some Latin ballads and uptempos, then announced our farewells and took a few bows. The audience was standing and applauding heartily. Then as if by some cue, with no trace of ”encore’ or ‘bis’ etc., everyone quietly sat down again. We were captive, understanding immediately that they expected another tune. So we played one, then they were happy. Then came the exquisite dinner the volunteers cooked for us, with taboolie, Indonesian rice salad with water chestnuts and other crunchies; chicken pot pie; and a variety of other dishes, something for every taste, and with the most perfect fluffy and wonderful textures.
Feb. 26, ‘09: I have had the great pleasure of spending a day with saxophonist/clarinetist Roz Cron, who played all her life on a horn purchased from my Dad some 70 years ago.
