Los 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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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson LEWES, England–I’d often heard about Glyndebourne, the country estate where operas are presented at a very high artistic standard, but never dreamed I would actually be able to attend a performance myself. It wasn’t even quite clear to me where it was, somewhere out in the country outside London. It sounded like
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By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California –Marc-Andre Hamelin was one of the stars of the La Jolla Music Society’s 2016 Summerfest this past month. The entire concert on August 24 featured the Montreal native in multiple roles, as a piano virtuoso, a chamber musician and a composer. I was familiar with Hamelin’s name from the
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyInbar Tabib was born in Israel to a Yemenite/Persian family. Her father was disabled as a young child, and both her parents served as role models for coping with challenges. When she was 5, her family relocated to Chicago, where she spent the rest of her childhood. Although Inbar grew up in a traditional home
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson LONDON, England –Proms? What Proms? Anyone looking for an uplifting musical experience should steer clear of the famous Prom concerts in London’s Albert Hall. The hall itself is enormous and impressive, seating several thousands at a time. In addition, especially cheap tickets are sold as standing room only in the center of the
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsThe decision of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to stop standing for the national anthem has provoked a lot of debate, to say the least. It’s also re-opened a discussion about whether “The Star-Spangled Banner” is actually racist. Francis Scott Key wrote his famous poem, “The Defence of Fort McHenry,” after witnessing the failure
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