Eileen Wingard

Eileen Wingard

Eileen Wingard, a retired violinist with the San Diego Symphony, is a freelance writer specializing in coverage of the arts.

Alhambra Sephardic Music Ensemble here Sept 15

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The name, Alhambra Sephardic Music Ensemble, evokes visions of the Moorish citadel, the Alhambra, which still stands in all its radiant glory in Granada, Spain. There, In the 11th century, the Jewish Talmudic scholar, poet and statesman, Samuel Hanagid served for thirty years as minister to the Berber […]

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Eileen Wingard, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Rabbi/ Cantor Arlene Bernstein’s spiritual journey

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As Arlene Bernstein became less and less “observant”of halacha in her religious practice, she became more and more deeply involved in Jewish life.  Today she is a cantor as well as a rabbi.  And for the next year, she is serving as the Acting Senior Rabbi of the

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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Donald H. Harrison, Eileen Wingard, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA

TICO marches out its 2019 concert season

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO) concluded its season with an entertaining Pops Concert under the direction of its founder and conductor, David Amos, and featuring soprano Victoria Robertson. The first half of the program began and ended with two unusual selections, Sousa’s The Fairest of the Fair March,

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

La Jolla Music Society sets innovative programs

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — It must have been a challenging task for the La Jolla Music Society to find a successor for Summerfest’s former director, violinist Cho-Liang Lin. Taiwanese-born Lin was not only a brilliant violinist with a successful career as a performer, but he proved himself to be a gifted administrator

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

LJFCC’s extensive music collection available for loan

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Books, sheet music, phonograph records and CDs are all part of the Jewish music collection of the Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family JCC.  After long years of sorting and cataloguing, Ted Parker and I have completed the task of organizing this wonderful collection, now available to

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

Radzynski excels in La Jolla violin recital

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — David Radzynski, concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, gave an engaging recital Tuesday evening, June 17, in the sanctuary of Congregation Beth El, under the auspices of Mainly Mozart and the American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Collaborating at the piano was the Los Angeles-based pianist, Mark

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Seven ‘Women of Valor’ saluted at Jewish Arts Festival

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Celebrating its tenth anniversary as an annual part of the Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival, this year’s Women of Valor featured seven outstanding local Jewish women, Jaqui Silver, Pianist and Educator; Allison Price, Philanthropist and Body Builder; Theresa Dupuis, Chair of San Diego Jewish Federation’s Women’s Philanthropy;

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Eileen Wingard, Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Radzynski recital set for June 18 at Beth El

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — David Radzynski became the youngest concertmaster of a major symphony orchestra when, in 2015, the 28-year-old violinist was selected to fill that post in the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO). Up until then, Radzynski had never played in a professional orchestra, but his formidable talents, honed in the United

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar

Biblical Exodus inspires ‘Journey to Freedom’ oratorio

By Eileen Wingard ALISO VIEJO, California — The manuscript of Journey to Freedom languished for decades at the bottom of a pile of Dr. Bernard “Barney” Gilmore’s scores. It was not until after UC Irvine Music Faculty Professor Gilmore’s death, that his wife, while organizing his music for the archives at the UC Irvine Library,

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Eileen Wingard, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

TICO features works of Dvorak, Alfven, Stern

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — David Amos did unusual programming at TICO’s recent concert at Tifereth Israel Synagogue by opening with the longest work of the evening, Dvorak’s New World Symphony. However, the orchestra musicians seemed warmed up enough to plunge into this iconic music and bring forth the familiar melodies with all the

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

Florida shooting survivors appeal for gun laws

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California –Two remarkable young people, Sofie Whitney and Brendan Duff, both alumni of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were at the Lawrence Family JCC last Sunday evening, talking about the shooting at their high school on February 14, 2018.  They were interviewed by Jordan Harrison, senior director

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Eileen Wingard, San Diego County, USA

JCC poetry program features compassion and whimsy

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The Exhibit on Aging served as a fitting backdrop to the Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices program, held in the Gotthelf Gallery of the Lawrence Family JCC Thursday, May 2. The forty plus people who gathered were well-rewarded with inspiring poems by three senior citizens. Janice Alper and Dr. Irvin

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, Irv Jacobs, MD, San Diego County