Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Watch: Katy Perry Roars for Hillary Clinton at DNC

Thursday night saw Hillary Clinton make history as the first female candidate to clinch a presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention—and pop star Katy Perry was there to help her celebrate. The singer roused Democatic delegates with two songs suited for such an occasion: the anthemic 2013 hit “Roar,” and the first live performance

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

TICO concludes 2016 concert season with a flair

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — A full house in the Cohen Social Hall of Tifereth Israel Synagogue greeted the matinee Pops Concert by the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO) on Sunday, July 17.  The program of short works featured several wonderful highlights. It began and ended with two sprightly Sousa marches, the unfamiliar Free Lance

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Meet the Opera Singer Who Could Be Georgia’s Next PM

On the opera stage, he has led Attila’s Golden Horde into battle and seized the Russian throne from its hapless tsar. Now Paata Burchuladze prepares for a role he hopes will let him change his home country of Georgia for the better and quite a few of his countrymen are backing him. “I played so

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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Debut illustrator thrills as book sells at Comic-Con

Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photo by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – In the guise of an anonymous sales lady tending a display of books at Comic-Con, Sara Ann Varon watched as people laughed while they thumbed through copies of Bacon and Sausage. Varon was the illustrator of the children’s book written by Gabriel Smith. 

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori

College art head resigns over offensive poster of Shaked

The head of the Art Department at Shenkar College has resigned, after a nude portrait bearing a facial resemblance to Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked was censored for a senior project art exhibit. The portrait initially went viral, later being censored by Professor Yuli Tamir, the Head of Shenkar College, who reasoned that it could lead

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Anthem outburst is what happens when social media opens up ‘the conversation’ to morons

If Remigio Pereira’s performance the other night at Major League Baseball’s all-star game in San Diego is not a sign of the coming apocalypse, it’s at least one of the madness currently sweeping the planet. Pereira is – was? – one of The Tenors quartet, formerly The Canadian Tenors, and he had a pretty dishy

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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions

Santana thumbs nose at BDS to appear in Tel Aviv

The legendary Grammy-award winning guitarist Carlos Santana is scheduled to appear in Park Hayarkon is Tel Aviv on July 30, Yediot Aharonot reported. When asked what his stance is regarding the anti-Israel BDS movement, that encourages the boycott of Israeli businesses and often pressures artists not to perform in Israel, Santana stated that “I prefer

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Maestro: Music, mysticism of Leonard Bernstein

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — One man and a piano. For most, this would be a scene in a hotel lounge with patrons coming and going. But not for virtuoso Hershey Felder who completes this year’s Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival playing at the Lyceum Theatre. Hershey Felder is well known

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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Online auction of Judaica set for July 14

JERUSALEM (Press Release)– The Jewish Jerusalem Fine Art Store, http://www.tjjfineartstore.com, will be holding an art auction, featuring the works of eight outstanding Jewish artists, at the Leonardo Plaza Hotel in Jerusalem on July 14, 2016. Proceeds of the auction will benefit Deaf youth in Israel through the International Young Israel Movement (IYIM) Judaic Heritage program

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

IDF commander jailed for inviting rapper to army party

An IDF Company Commander was sentenced to a week in a military prison for inviting controversial Israeli rapper Yoav Eliasi to perform for his soldiers, it has been revealed. Eliasi – more widely known by his stage name “The Shadow” (Ha-Tzel) – has in recent years become something of a social media pundit, with his

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Tseitlin, Gerpe, Farmer: an impressive musical trio

By Eileen Wingard ENCINITAS, California — Michael Tseitlin, San Diego County’s highly respected violin pedagogue and organizer of the Virtuosi USA Concert Series, introduced one of its programs at the Encinitas Library on June 25, featuring Violinist Pasha Tseitlin, Pianist Nic Gerpe and Bassoonist Judith Farmer. Pasha Tseitlin, son of Michael and Irina Tseitlin, plays

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Bavaria accused of funneling stolen art back to Nazis

NEW YORK (WJC)- World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said this week that he is dismayed by an investigation alleging that the German state of Bavaria had sold or given Nazi-looted art to high-ranking Nazi officials, rather than returning the art to its rightful Jewish heirs. The investigation by the London-based Commission for Looted

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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts