A WIND HAS BLOWN THE RAIN AWAY is a CD of 15 songs by Ellen Mandel to poems by the great American poet E.E. Cummings. "Ardent and spiky with meter and key changes that felt refreshingly organic." NY Times. "A striking collaboration: the playful poetry of e.e. cummings set to music by New York composer Ellen Mandel and sung beautifully by Cincinnati tenor and actor Todd Almond. I wish I could give this CD to every poetry lover I know." NPR's Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered. E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962) upended modern poetry with his radical concepts. Also a painter, Cummings shaped and scattered his words on the page, to shock and delight his readers. His poems range from sweetly romantic to dark and hauntingly evocative. ELLEN MANDEL has written music for dozens of plays from Shakespeare to Stoppard at New York City's Jean Cocteau Rep, where she is resident composer, and for Riverside Shakespeare, NYC, Peterborough Players, NH,...