Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Theme Song for ‘The Last Laugh’

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−While Michael Flynn frantically tried to destroy his DVD of From Russia with Love, the San Diego Jewish Film Festival is entertaining audiences day and night at a variety of venues in the city through February 19th.  I had the honor to introduce The Last Laugh, a documentary about comedians and […]

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Lawrence Baron, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Beethoven, Liszt were two TICO audience favorites

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — A large audience welcomed the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO), under the direction of David Amos, for the January 31 concert at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. The program featured two audience favorites, Beethoven’s Symphony #5 and the Liszt’s Piano Concerto #2, with Pianist Peter Vinograde. Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, with its

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Orchestra from Prague delights San Diegans

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO– The soft, rippling notes of the flute, entwined with the clarinet, sang forth with ease and authenticity as the PKF-Prague Philharmonia, under the direction of its French conductor, Emmanuel Villaume, began Smetena’s The Moldau at the La Jolla Music Society-sponsored concert January 25. Shimmering strings entered, overlaying the flow of notes

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

Culture and weather in London, Paris, Jerusalem

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — ‘He who tires of London has tired of life,’ wrote Samuel Johnson, and I dare say he had a point. Even in the dead of winter, when the bone-chilling cold really does chill every inch of bone in your body, the place has its pleasures provided you are suitably

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Artists, writers may have different sleep patterns

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Do you ever dream of becoming the next Picasso? A new study at the University of Haifa comparing art and social science students has found that visually creative students evaluate their sleep as of lower quality. “Visually creative people reported disturbed sleep leading to difficulties in daytime functioning,” explains doctorate

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education

The music world mourns the death of one of the men who made the Allman Brothers Band legendary

Butch Trucks, the longtime drummer for the Allman Brothers Band, has died at age 69. Rolling Stone confirmed the news with Trucks’ booking manager after reports of his death began to circulate on Facebook and Twitter. Trucks was one of the founding members of the Allman Brothers Band and played with the group since its

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials

Closeted composer suffered in Czarist Russia

“Nothing is perfect in Nature. Nature is perfect imperfection.” -PI Tchaikovsky By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO–When Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky listened to birdsong, he noticed that they were just a little less than perfect, but these imperfections made them more beautiful. And so he threw some “wrong” notes into his arpeggios, making them more natural

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

Hershey Felder brings to life composer Piotr Tchaikowsky

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — In The Great Tchaikowsky, Hershey Felder’s latest piece, which is breaking sales records at the Lyceum Theatre in downtown San Diego, Felder does Tikun Olam, working to repair the world, by sensitizing us to the suffering of the gay Russian composer and casting a light on the persecution of the

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

When Jackie Evancho sings at Trump’s inauguration, her transgender sister won’t be present — here’s why

While 18-year-old Jackie Evancho goes on-stage at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, her transgender sister Juliet will be going under the knife. RELATED: Singer performing National Anthem at Trump’s inauguration sees HUGE gains since the announcement According to TMZ, 16-year-old Juliet will be undergoing gender reassignment surgery in Philadelphia on Friday so that she can “finally

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

See People’s Choice Awards 2017 Complete Winners List!

Latinos were shining bright at the People’s Choice Awards 2017 tonight. Our Bronx-diva Jennifer Lopez was honored for her work on “Shades of Blue” with the award for Favorite TV Crime Drama Actress. JLo beat out Lucy Liu, Mariska Hargitay, Pauley Perrette and Sophia Bush. Winning in the Favorite Comedic TV Actress, Sofia Vergara took

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

From Mauritania: A song for breast cancer awareness

Women’s health is an important issue for singer Noura Mint Seymali. Breast cancer awareness, specifically. Noura Mint Seymali is from Mauritania, in West Africa. And she wants to make sure women, especially women in Africa, get their annual screenings. Noura Mint Seymali is pictured here before her evening performance in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in

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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts