Eileen Wingard

Eileen Wingard

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

Jazz from Israel and elsewhere captivates

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO–Mesmerizing strums of the oud opened the first number, a Kurdish melody, in a program at SDSU’s Smith Recital Hall entitled: Desert Caravan: New Jazz from Israel and Beyond. This concert, arranged by SDSU Judaic Studies Scholar-In-Residence, Yale Strom, featured, in addition to his band, Hot Pstromi, the prize-winning Israeli musician, Amos […]

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

TICO concert ‘most satisfying in recent memory’

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra’s recent concert, featuring Dvorak’s Symphony #8 in G Major, was one of their most satisfying performances in recent memory. Dvorak’s engaging melodies sang forth with warmth. The entire ensemble, under David Amos’ capable direction, seemed to feel and understand the music. With the woodwinds

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Danish musicians, Italian conductor, global appeal

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The Italian, Grammy-Award Maestro, Fabio Luisi, newly appointed principal conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, led his forces in an engaging concert of works by Nielsen (1865-1931), Wagner (1772-1822) and Mahler (1869-1911). The program, at the Jacobs Music Center last Thursday evening, was sponsored by the La Jolla

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

Officials urge Jews to be vigilant yet unafraid

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Because of concerns due to the recent bomb threats at local Jewish institutions, the Anti-Defamation League organized a meeting at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center on Sunday evening, to address these issues. Tammy Gillies, Director of the San Diego ADL opened the program with a power point presentation, giving

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Eileen Wingard, San Diego County, USA

Works of Jewish poets of Spain’s Golden Age to be recited and sung

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The next Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices program, will feature the works of three of the leading Jewish poets from the Golden Age of Spain, Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021-1058), Judah Halevi (1085 -1141) and Abraham Ibn Ezra (1092-1167). The free evening, under the auspices of the San Diego Center for Jewish

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego Calendar

Beethoven, Liszt were two TICO audience favorites

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — A large audience welcomed the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO), under the direction of David Amos, for the January 31 concert at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. The program featured two audience favorites, Beethoven’s Symphony #5 and the Liszt’s Piano Concerto #2, with Pianist Peter Vinograde. Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, with its

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Orchestra from Prague delights San Diegans

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO– The soft, rippling notes of the flute, entwined with the clarinet, sang forth with ease and authenticity as the PKF-Prague Philharmonia, under the direction of its French conductor, Emmanuel Villaume, began Smetena’s The Moldau at the La Jolla Music Society-sponsored concert January 25. Shimmering strings entered, overlaying the flow of notes

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

Hershey Felder brings to life composer Piotr Tchaikowsky

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — In The Great Tchaikowsky, Hershey Felder’s latest piece, which is breaking sales records at the Lyceum Theatre in downtown San Diego, Felder does Tikun Olam, working to repair the world, by sensitizing us to the suffering of the gay Russian composer and casting a light on the persecution of the

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

Poets of three nations debut in JCC’s new season

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The ninth season of Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices will open with three featured poets, Samantha Lennon, Marc Rolnick and Ilana Brosh. Tuesday evening, January 17, 7  p.m., these three talented writers will inaugurate the 2017 season of this series in the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC. Samantha

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Songs of Israel, Diaspora featured at concert

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — MAGEVET, Yale University’s A Cappella Jewish Choir, gave a wonderful concert last Wednesday evening at the Lawrence Family JCC’s Garfield Theatre. Even though the shell was not utilized, the fourteen unamplified voices projected with poignant sweetness. Unaccompanied, they created beautiful harmonies and well-graded dynamics, singing an hour and a

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Hadassah honors local ‘Women of Excellence’

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — A video about the advanced research and clinical trials taking place at the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem concluded Hadassah San Diego’s Women of Excellence Luncheon on December 4. The program featured talks by two remarkable local women: Executive Chef of Extraordinary Desserts, Karen Krasne, and retiring San Diego City

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Eileen Wingard, San Diego County

Talented Mormon violinist thrills Jewish audience

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Violinist Jenny Oaks Baker, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was the featured soloist at TICO’s opening programs, Thursday evening, November 17 and Saturday evening, November 19. The large audience in the Cohen Social Hall of Tifereth Israel Synagogue included many members of the Church of Latter Day Saints, of

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