By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — In the many performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass which I have experienced as a performer or a listener, I have never heard this masterpiece with 250 voices in the choir. That was the size of the choral forces for the March 17, 18 and 19 performances in […]
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsStockholm (dpa) – US rock legend Bob Dylan – winner of the 2016 Nobel Literature Prize – is to accept his diploma and medal this weekend, the Swedish Academy said Wednesday, ending months of speculation about whether he would forfeit the cash prize and medal. The handover will take place in conjunction with Dylan’s visit
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Fleeing From The Fuhrer: A Postal History of Refugees From the Nazis by Charmian Brinson and William Kaczynski; The History Press; © 2011; 191 pages including index; ISBN 9780752-461953; 17.99 British currency. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I must acknowledge cousins Herb and Susie Rheingruber’s kind gift of this book to me;
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish HistoryNathan Fielder pledges $150,000 to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Center at Sunday’s first brick-and-mortar pop-up of jacket company Summit Ice By Yaakov Schwartz Nathan Fielder wears one of his Summit Ice jackets on Conan O’Brien’s show, October 2015. (YouTube) When comedian Nathan Fielder found out that his favorite jacket company paid postmortem tribute to a
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Jewish History, Theatre, Film & BroadcastOh, let your dead revive! Let corpses arise! Awake and sing for joy, You who dwell in the dust… (Isa. 26:19, JPS Tanakh) By Eric George Tauber CARLSBAD, California — When I first read the press release for Awake and Sing! it rang a bell, something from a college textbook about its significance in the history
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By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Once again the Playwrights Project proves that it is not afraid to tackle thorny subjects that most would like to sweep under the rug. Just as the group partnered with the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility to bring us Out of the Yard, last year, they have created
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & BroadcastNew York’s popular bronze ‘Fearless Girl’ statue will continue to defiantly stare down Wall Street’s ‘Charging Bull’ until 2018, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday. The city initially permitted the installation of the statue—funded by asset managers State Street Global Advisors—for one week from March 7 to commemorate International Women’s Day. The plaque
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USARedemption, Then and Now: Pesaḥ Haggada with Essays and Commentary by Rabbi Benjamin Blech; Menorah Books, Jerusalem, © 2017, ISBN 978-1-940516-73-8, p. 310, $24.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Considering the long arc of Jewish history, the Haggada, a book containing the Passover Seder, the traditional ordered meal recreating God’s redemptive acts through the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish ReligionBy Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD — Four of the best actors I’ve seen this century appeared on stage last weekend to present playwright William Mastrosimone’s timely and chilling play, “Cat’s Paw.” The actors are truly amazing, and so is the play. It involves a political activist named Victor (Sean McHugh), the founder of a militant group called
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastLOS ANGELES — Under clear blue skies, hundreds of fans made the pilgrimage Saturday to Forest Lawn’s Hall of Liberty in the Hollywood Hills to pay tribute to actress Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds. “These were my girls …,” Todd Fisher, who helped organize the public memorial, told those who had gathered to
Even though “Criminal Minds” has had a 12-season run on CBS, pulling in sold ratings each week, the show could be coming to an end. On Thursday, the network released its renewal announcement, and the show was not listed among the 16 renewed programs. RELATED: “Criminal Minds” fans finally found out what happened to Thomas
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastWith the release of a new book, Rachel Dolezal is once again embracing the controversy that emerged after it was revealed that the former NAACP leader was not, as she claimed to be, an African-American. Dolezal’s memoir “In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World” was set to be released Tuesday.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USAChuck Barris, “The Gong Show” creator and host who claimed — though never too seriously — that he doubled as a CIA assassin during the height of his game show popularity, has died at his home in Palisades, N.Y. He was 87. The popular game show creator, producer and host died Monday of natural causes,
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAfter tumultuous event at one college, former UN special rapporteur who accuses Israel of ‘apartheid’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ sees premature curtailment of London book tour By Jenni Frazer LONDON — A British campus speaking tour came to an abrupt end on Tuesday for Professor Richard Falk, when Middlesex University canceled his appearance scheduled for Wednesday.
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