Neva Small has had an eclectic career as a Broadway, Hollywood, and recording performer. Her CD My Place In The World, with arrangements and orchestrations by Fred Barton, is a career retrospective including many rare songs never before recorded. Neva, with her producer Walter Willison, combed her archives and uncovered many hidden treasures, including rare archival recordings, which were re-mastered and included along with the newly-recorded Broadway and off-Broadway repertoire.
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"...A beautiful and beautifully orchestrated recording."
– Stephen Schwartz
"..Small's voice is just as big, powerful, and distinctive as ever." – Ken Mandelbaum, Broadway.com
"The CD is bursting with rare theater songs – many of which have never been recorded before – and will be of great interest to fans of musicals and vocals alike." – Steven Suskin, Playbill.com
"...How well she cooks up this baker's dozens of songs. Neva Small continues to possess a real theater voice, and there's no greater compliment than that!" – Peter Filichia, Theatermania.com
"Neva Small has a vocal vitality all her own, and a superb way of interpreting a song and making it sound as if no one else could perform it as well." – Jeffrey Lyons |
"Neva Small is a great singer, and always has been. Her CD My Place In The World is a wonderful presentation of Neva's talents. Singing/acting some truly wonderful and mostly unknown songs, Neva gives full value to the lyric and the beauty of these unknown melodies. A truly beautiful presentation and most enjoyable recording." – Larry Blank, composer/arranger
