By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The idea came to me when the announcer on the radio said that the next item in the music program would be one of Mozart’s ‘Haydn Quartets,’ i.e., quartets composed by Mozart and dedicated to and inspired by Haydn. I had known about the relationship of mutual admiration between […]
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — A highlight of the Hanukkah week in San Diego was the Broken Consort concert December 4, at Smith Hall, on the campus of San Diego State University. The program was entitled, “Shimmering Lights,” and was based on the newly released album by klezmer violinist Yale Strom, his wife, vocalist
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By Mimi Pollack TIJUANA, Baja California, Mexico — Social classes are very defined in Mexico, so many times opportunity depends on what class you are born in. There is a woman in Tijuana who is determined to bring music into the lives of all children, no matter what their background is. When you first meet
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International, Mimi Pollack, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree… By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson SAN DIEGO — The words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem could well apply to San Diego’s stately Balboa Park, with its landscaped grounds, and 17 museums dedicated to different subjects, as well as centers for music, theater, recreational activities, and of course
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA
National broadcast planned of concert for Tree of Life Synagogue massacre victims PBS will broadcast nationally WQED’s locally-produced Tree of Life: A Concert for Peace and Unity, a free community event, presented and hosted by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to honor the Tree of Life Synagogue victims and first responders. The performance, featuring Itzhak Perlman at Pittsburgh’s Heinz
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASDSU Jewish Studies Program sponsors Chanukah concert Dec. 4 San Diego State University’s Jewish Studies Program will present a Chanukah concert, “Shimmering Lights,” featuring Yale Strom’s Broken Consort at 7 p.m., Dec. 4, in the Smith Recital Hall. Strom, who serves as artist in residence for the Jewish Studies Program, says the concert will include
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar, USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The vivacious pianist, Ines Irawati, welcomed the overflow crowd in Monique Kunewalder’s living room before her partner for the Piano Duo Recital, Daniel Wnukowski, introduced their first selection, Dance Macabre by Saints-Saens. This transcription for two pianos from the orchestral original was carried off with crackling demonic fervor, and Wnukowski’s
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Patrick Henry High School’s new PHAME Auditorium was the setting for the first of the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra’s (TICO) recent pair of concerts, Sunday, November 4 and Tuesday, November 6. I heard the Tuesday evening performance at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, but I learned from others that the excellent
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Although many composers in the past have imitated the sounds of water in their music, such as Vivaldi in The Four Seasons, Beethoven in the Pastorale Symphony, Mendelssohn in the Fingal’s Cave Overture and Respighi in the Fountains of Rome, never has a basin of water been incorporated
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
A Tragic Fate: Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art (2017) by Nicholas M. O’Donnell By Herbert I. Lazerow SAN DIEGO — This is a terrific book that everyone should read. Nicholas O’Donnell’s book begins by describing as the paradigm case Camille Pissarro’s Rue St. Honore, apres-midi, effet de pluie, sold by the German
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel ENCINITAS, California — You’re just in time for a Chanukah treat with the release of the new CD album, “The Festival of Lights.” It blends popular Chanukah Hebrew folk songs and Jamaican reggae musical styles with singers and an eclectic group of instruments: Horns , Piano, Percussion, Guitar, Saxophone, Trumpet,
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –In some cases, sculptures are grouped to tell a story, but at other times their storytelling groupings are accidental. You’ll find both sets of circumstances outside the San Diego Museum of Art. For example, two Jewish artists who immigrated to the United States from the Czarist Russian Empire have
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — On the third Friday evening of each month, the Shir Chadash (New Song) Band leads services celebrating Shabbat at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. The young mother whose alto voice provides the harmonies to the Shabbat melodies is an example of religious mobility. Just hearing that her name is “Christina
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David Ogul, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Often you will meet women who either are in their second careers, or have become very proficient at their hobbies, at the Artisan Festival sponsored annually by the Women of Temple Emanu-El. On Sunday, I found that to be the case when I interviewed artist Enid Texler and
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