Las Vegas (dpa) – If Bob Dylan was impressed by his recent Nobel literature prize win, he certainly did not let it show onstage in Las Vegas on Thursday. The 75-year-old rock legend took the stage for a previously planned show at the Cosmopolitan casino’s Chelsea music hall with not a word to the crowd
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USABy Eileen Wingard ENCINITAS, California — Cantor William Tiep, of Temple Solel, is to be commended for having the temple cosponsor a concert of Jewish Music, presented last Saturday evening by the Grossmont Symphony Orchestra and Master Chorale, in the temple’s Social Hall. The program, scheduled between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, featured a varied
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyBob Dylan was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday morning. Dylan was awarded the prize “for having created new poetic expressions within the American song tradition.” The American musician had long been rumored to be considered for the prize, but literary watchers considered his name among those in the
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “It’s not the roar that makes the lion, it’s the pride.” Singer-songwriter Ben Scheuer has a one-man musical autobiography now playing at the Old Globe. Through story and song, Ben takes us on a deeply personal musical journey chronicling his life. His first ballad is a charming tale
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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & BroadcastNEW YORK — It’s Thursday evening and Matthew Miller is exhausted. He woke up early in the morning prepared to take on a full schedule of appointments and interviews as Matisyahu, but ended up spending most of the day as Dad, having spontaneously accompanied his son’s kindergarten class on a field trip. By sunset he
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USALos Angeles (dpa) – Music icons Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Neil Young, The Who and the Rolling Stones will perform starting Friday at the Desert Trip festival in California, the first-ever modern-day music festival to feature some of the top acts of the 1970s on one stage. The festival is being staged over
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAItalian police proudly unveiled two Van Gogh paintings recovered during a mafia raid. The masterpieces, stolen more than a decade ago in Amsterdam, were found in a house linked to an international drug trafficker in Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples. Valued at 89 million euros, both paintings were said to be in good condition and
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By Eileen Wingard ENCINITAS, California — Mechiah: Jewish Classical Music to Soothe the Soul is the title of the concert which will be performed at Temple Solel between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, on Saturday evening, October 8, 7:00 p.m. The 70-piece Grossmont Symphony Orchestra and 40-member Master Chorale, under the direction of Dr. Randall Tweed, will be presenting
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CalendarOne of the grand ladies of the Grand Ole Opry has slipped away. Country Music Hall of Fame member Jean Shepard died Sunday, Sept. 25 at age 82. Jean Shepard was born Ollie Imogene Shepard on Nov. 21, 1933. Signed to Capitol Records in 1952, Shepard brought a liveliness to country music that paved the
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAWhat critics and fans are calling Leonard Cohen‘s darkest song yet has turned out to be a bright spot in a Montreal cantor’s career. “You Want It Darker” — the first track released this week from the 82-year-old Cohen’s new album of the same name — features the voice of Cantor Gideon Zelermyer of Congregation
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International, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — The Beatles: Eight Days a Week–The Touring Years, a documentary directed by Ron Howard, opened this past Friday. The film covers the years 1962-1966 as the Beatles performed more than 800 live concerts around the world. What Jewish-related event took place during the Beatles 1964 tour of America? A. The Beatles
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Trivia, Humor & SatireThe Beatles’s legacy looms so large over the music industry that, despite proclamations from the likes of Oasis, no other musical act will likely ever be bigger than the Fab Four. But, as it turns out, few other acts can claim to be louder than The Beatles either. Data shared exclusively with Newsweek suggests that
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Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy David Amos SAN DIEGO — This has been a busy, but fascinating summer for us. In celebration of my 75th birthday and of our 50th wedding anniversary, we and the immediate family went on a cruise of the Baltic Sea, and many of its fascinating ports of call. The week before this cruise, we
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Travel and FoodBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — One of the cultural attractions provided by the La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest is the plethora of free offerings, which are designed to engage the community. During the three weeks of the festival, there were five open rehearsals at Sherwood Hall; three encounters, at the Athenaeum Music and
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