Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Art of Yiddish children’s books on exhibit

AMHERST, Massachusetts (Press Release) – The visiting exhibit Through the Yiddish Looking Glass: The Art of Yiddish Children’s Literature is on view at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. The exhibit will be at the Center’s Brechner Gallery through Fall 2018. Through the Yiddish Looking Glass features Yiddish children’s book illustrations, created by artists who […]

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

Yidstock Festival set for July 12-15

AMHERST, Massachusetts (Press Release) —  The seventh annual Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music will feature a headlining performance by David Krakauer’s Acoustic Klezmer Quartet that draws from and emphasizes the beauty of traditional klezmer dance tunes, ritual songs, and reflective melodies, all given the ineffable David Krakauer touch. The four-day festival—July 12 to 15,

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Jewelry supports Holocaust education

JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Press Release) — On weekends as a child, Dana Rogozinski sat with her grandmother, Ella, at the kitchen table playing with beads and baubles. Ella, a Holocaust survivor, was self-taught in the art of stringing pearls and worked as a jeweler for a high-end jewelry store in Jacksonville, Florida.  Her grandmother’s Auschwitz forearm

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Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Interfaith sacred music a hit at TICO concert

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Although I needed to park far up the street because the Tifereth Israel parking lot was full, I was happy to see an overflowing house attending the second of two concerts by TICO (Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra) in conjunction with the East County Mormon Chorale. The program, which opened

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

Ohr Shalom salutes Israel with April 18 concert

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Ohr Shalom Synagogue will celebrate Israel’s 70th Year of Independence with a Yom Hazikaron/Yom Ha’atzmaut Concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 18.   The public is invited to join the Ohr Shalom Synagogue and Beth Am Choirs as they lead the audience on a journey through 70 years of Israeli

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar, USA

Repairing the world with music

SDSU Live Downtown By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — As an artist and teacher, I’ve always been a passionate advocate of arts in education.  I’ve seen from research and personal experience how the arts can really ignite sparks in the mind. Creative energy brings laughter and learning together, generating lifelong memories. An environment that encourages,

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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

World premiere of ‘Unetane Tokef’ April 7, 10

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — A world premiere will be featured at Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra’s concerts Saturday evening, April 7, 8:30 p.m. and Tuesday, April 10,  7:30 p.m. at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. Unetane Tokef  by composer John Michael Luther, will feature the East County Mormon Chorale and  shofar soloist, Steven Ovitsky. Ovitsky, who recorded Hugo Weisgall’s

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Eileen Wingard, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Reno celebrates Israel’s 70th with art, lectures

RENO, Nevada (Press Release) – This year the State of Israel celebrates seventy years since its founding by the United Nations following World War II. To mark this occasion, the Nevada Museum of Art presents exhibitions by Israeli women artists Michal Rovner and Tal Shochat. These contemporary artists create work that are grounded in the

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Science meets art at the Natural History Museum

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jonas Salk, the discoverer of the polio vaccine, was fond of paraphrasing the mathematician Jacob Bronowski on the possible beneficial results from an interrelationship between the sciences and the arts.  Bronowski, who became known to millions of Americans through the PBS television series The Ascent of Man, suggested

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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education

Storyteller pianist Silver to launch music history series

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)—Jacquelyne Silver, who lectures and plays piano, returns to the Athenaeum with a new series. “We have been making music since the beginning of mankind,” Silver says. “It brings us together, quickens our pulses, and is the universal language.” With her pianistic expertise and  storytelling talent, Silver will elucidate upon the

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