By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — Mid-City Center is an oasis in the heart of City Heights. It is the main center for the English as a second language, which is part of San Diego Community College District’s Continuing Education Program. The six continuing education centers offer a variety of free classes, including ESL, computer, citizenship […]
Sacha Boutros entertains polyglot SDCE audience Read More »
Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
AFP — When saxophonist Eli Degibri left Israel at the age of 18 to study jazz at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, he knew he’d come back home one day. It took 15 years, which included playing with jazz greats like Herbie Hancock and Al Foster in New York, where he also
Israeli jazz finding its groove Read More »
Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
Thanks to Phil Snyder for finding this video and passing it along. And thanks also too Nina Paley for creating it!
A jazzy Passover~ Go Down Moses Read More »
Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Trivia, Humor & SatireBUENOS AIRES – With his dreadlocks, signature Salvador Dali mustache and huge Star of David necklace, Simja Dujov can be easily spotted on the streets of the Argentinian capital’s artsy Palermo neighborhood. And so can his music, which is a unique blend of klezmer and Latin beats. In a recent interview with The Times of
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — David Amos and the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO) tackled a difficult program when they chose to play an All-Rachmaninoff concert. The post-Romantic music produced by the great Russian composer is complex and challenging. Still, with an excellent piano soloist, SDSU’s piano faculty head, Karen Follingstad, extra coaching of
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) hosts the 23rd Annual Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival from May 27 through July 17, 2016. Following up 2015’s festival, the highest selling in JFest history, the slate of twelve performances happening at eight different San Diego and North County venues features
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & BroadcastA popular Norwegian rap duo was accused of mainstreaming anti-Semitism by using “Jew” and Ariel Sharon as insults in its latest single. Karpe Diem, which has sold hundreds of thousands of CDs in Norway since its creation in 2000, released “Attitude Problems” last week, the online edition of the Verdens Gang daily reported Wednesday. “I
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
By Mimi Pollack LA MESA, California — Herb Alpert and Lani Hall do not rest on their laurels. At 81 and 71, they are still going strong and sound as fresh as ever. As a child in Mexico City in the 1960’s, I remember my older siblings listening to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana’s
Herb Alpert and Lani Hall: A Whipped Cream Life Read More »
Mimi Pollack, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me?” –Hillel By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — If you want to break into showbiz, you have to put yourself out there. You have to stand before judges and audiences with poise and confidence even though your insides are churning with nervous insecurity. That was
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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By David Amos SAN DIEGO — If you ring the doorbell at our home, you will not hear the traditional “buzz” or “ding-dong.” Instead, you will hear Paganini’s 24th Caprice for solo violin. This is by far not an obscure tune. I am sure that you have heard it played in various arrangements and transformations.
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, under their California-bred conductor, Kent Nagano, performed a virtuoso program at the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Music Center last Wednesday evening. Because the printed programs of the sponsoring La Jolla Music Society did not include biographical notes on the performers, Kristin Lancino, the new President and
Montreal Symphony program had French connections Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — I don’t write about every concert I attend, or even every book I read, for that matter. That would be boring and repetitive. However, there are some concerts (and some books) that I feel I really must share with anyone out there who might be slightly interested in
Bach’s ‘St. Matthew Passion’ stirs Jerusalem audience Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Fascinating black and white film footage of New York City accompanied Gotham, by Michael Gordon, the opening work on the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus’ March 12 concert in Mandeville Hall at UCSD. Gordon, a Miami-born Jewish-American composer, has often teamed up with film-maker Bill Morrison to create
Multi-media ‘Gotham’ well received in La Jolla Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsSAN DIEGO (SDJW)– Jonathan Valverde, the pastor’s son with an operatic voice who founded Latinos for Israel, has returned from a trip to Israel where he performed with Israeli signer David D’Or. Valverde was invited there by the Israeli singer after an appearance in San Diego at which Valverde also sang. Here is a video
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast