Eileen Wingard

 By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO–The line outside Smith Recital Hall, on the SDSU campus, curled across the quad as students and adults from the community waited to get in to hear  “Souls On Fire: Music of Spain’s Golden Age.” Twenty minutes after the scheduled curtain time, with extra chairs up front and every seat in

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California–The season’s heaviest rainstorm descended Wednesday evening, January 20, as fifteen people braved the inclement weather to gather at the JCC Astor Judaica Library for the first of three programs by local poets: Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices. Yael Gmach, who was scheduled to sing an original song in French, was stranded

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — For the second year, the Samuel and Rebecca Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center hosted three evenings devoted to the works of local poets: Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices. The second evening, February 24, featured student poets. Six seniors from the San Diego Jewish Academy, Yael Wulfovich,

By Eileen Wingard |SAN DIEGO–Two consecutive Sundays, I heard two great string players. The first, Violinist Itzhak Perlman, renowned, not only for his superb artistry, but for his humanity, performed January 24 at Copley Symphony Hall. The second, Violist David Aaron Carpenter, at the beginning of his concert career, presented a program at the Neuroscience

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO– When my daughter Myla Wingard first encounted Lucas Richman at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, she excitedly informed me that this young man, with prodigious musical talents, was sure to become recognized as a second Leonard Bernstein. Like Bernstein, Richman was a gifted pianist, composer and conductor. Although Lucas Richman is not yet