Eileen Wingard

Eileen Wingard

Eileen Wingard, a retired violinist with the San Diego Symphony, is a freelance writer specializing in coverage of the arts.

Remembering Sandy Lakoff, Founder of UCSD’s Political Science Department

Sandy fostered long-lasting connections to friends around the world such as Jacob Goldberg, who had served as an adviser to Israel’s prime minister, Ehud Barak. That 40-year friendship began when the Lakoffs hosted Goldberg’s lecture at their home on behalf of American Professors for Peace in the Middle East. [Eileen Wingard]

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Recorded Hanukkah Music to Provide Holiday Prelude Dec. 7

Enjoy a prelude to your first night of Hanukkah with Hanukkah Music, part of the series, Treasures from the Music Collection of the Astor Judaica Library. This free program will be held in the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC on Thursday, December 7, 2:00-3:30 p.m. [Eileen Wingard]

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Eileen Wingard, Music and Visual Arts, San Diego County

TICO, Celebrating Golden Anniversary, Has Memorable Concert at the JCC

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, TICO, the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra, under the direction of David Amos, gave a memorable concert at the Garfield Theatre of the Lawrence Family JCC Sunday, November 26.  Because of the configuration of the hall, most of the well-filled audience seats allowed visibility of all the musicians. [Eileen Wingard]

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Eileen Wingard, Music and Visual Arts, San Diego County

‘Fragments II’ a Unique Multi-Sensory Experience

By Eileen Wingard   LA JOLLA, California — Entering the Conrad on Thursday evening, November 16, the audience encountered a stage veiled in a white haze. Before the concert was about to begin, the hall went dark. When the lights came on, a spotlighted figure, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, surrounded by the white haze, unleashed an

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Eileen Wingard, Music and Visual Arts, San Diego County

UC San Diego Program to Explore Legacy of Famed Physicist Leo Szilard

By Eileen Wingard   LA JOLLA, California — Szilard Biographer William Lanouette and geneticist Matthew Meselson will celebrate the 125th anniversary of Leo Szilard’s birth and the Szilard archive held in UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives on Thursday, Nov. 2, from 4-5 p.m. online. To register for “Leo Szilard’s Legacy: Science in

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Eileen Wingard, Holocaust, San Diego County