Eileen Wingard

Eileen Wingard

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

Remembering Sandy Lakoff, Founder of UCSD’s Political Science Department

Sandy fostered long-lasting connections to friends around the world such as Jacob Goldberg, who had served as an adviser to Israel’s prime minister, Ehud Barak. That 40-year friendship began when the Lakoffs hosted Goldberg’s lecture at their home on behalf of American Professors for Peace in the Middle East. [Eileen Wingard]

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Recorded Hanukkah Music to Provide Holiday Prelude Dec. 7

Enjoy a prelude to your first night of Hanukkah with Hanukkah Music, part of the series, Treasures from the Music Collection of the Astor Judaica Library. This free program will be held in the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC on Thursday, December 7, 2:00-3:30 p.m. [Eileen Wingard]

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

TICO, Celebrating Golden Anniversary, Has Memorable Concert at the JCC

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, TICO, the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra, under the direction of David Amos, gave a memorable concert at the Garfield Theatre of the Lawrence Family JCC Sunday, November 26.  Because of the configuration of the hall, most of the well-filled audience seats allowed visibility of all the musicians. [Eileen Wingard]

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

‘Fragments II’ a Unique Multi-Sensory Experience

By Eileen Wingard   LA JOLLA, California — Entering the Conrad on Thursday evening, November 16, the audience encountered a stage veiled in a white haze. Before the concert was about to begin, the hall went dark. When the lights came on, a spotlighted figure, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, surrounded by the white haze, unleashed an

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UC San Diego Program to Explore Legacy of Famed Physicist Leo Szilard

By Eileen Wingard   LA JOLLA, California — Szilard Biographer William Lanouette and geneticist Matthew Meselson will celebrate the 125th anniversary of Leo Szilard’s birth and the Szilard archive held in UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives on Thursday, Nov. 2, from 4-5 p.m. online. To register for “Leo Szilard’s Legacy: Science in

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Music of Shabbat to Soothe the Troubled Heart

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — If music can soothe the troubled heart, the music of Shabbat may be particularly effective with its prayer chants for peace, for healing, and for the departed. The next Treasures from the Music Collection of the Astor Judaica Library program will feature the Music of Shabbat and will

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Famous Cantors, Past and Present, Featured in High Holy Day Music at the JCC

High Holiday Music will be featured as the first of a series of three Jewish Holiday Music programs from the Music Collection of the Astor Judaica Library. This free presentation will be held from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon, September 28,  in the second floor library of the Lawrence Family JCC. [Eileen Wingard]

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

Review: TICO’s Annual Pops Concert

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — At TICO’s (Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra) annual Pops Concert, Robert Zelickman was named the orchestra’s assistant conductor. After the concert’s opening two selections, an unfamiliar Sousa March, “Hands Across the Sea,” and a familiar Strauss waltz, “Voices of Spring,” the orchestra was warmed up for Zelickman as he

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Preview: Top Flamenco Artist to Perform in Intersections Concert Series

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — One of the top flamenco artists in the world today, Lakshmi Basile, “La Chimi,” will be featured in the Thursday, July 27, 7 p.m. Intersections Concert Series at Park and Market, curated by Yale Strom. She will be joined by her quintet, Souls on Fire, and by Hot

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

Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra Performs With Outstanding Soloists

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Outstanding soloists graced the last two concerts by the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO). Although unable to attend the April 16 and 18 programs in person, I listened to their recordings and marveled at the brilliant playing by pianist Ines Irawati of Serge Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3

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Poets of the Past Features Meaningful Introduction of Primo Levi by Dr. Andrew Viterbi

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The memorable Poets of the Past program, featuring Italian-born Holocaust poet, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and Belarus-born Yiddish poet, Bertha Kling (1886-1978), was held last month in the Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center. It was particularly meaningful having Dr. Andrew Viterbi introduce the life

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Israeli Maestro Yoav Talmi, Formerly of San Diego Symphony, Turns 80

By Eileen Wingard   LA JOLLA, California — Israeli conductor, composer, and teacher Yoav Talmi’s 80th birthday was celebrated not only in his native Israel on April 28 at Tel Aviv University’s Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, where he heads the conducting department; but he was also feted the following month in Quebec City, Canada, where

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