Reclaiming a musical heritage, one CD at a time
2004-11-27
To date, 30 recordings are out, and over 20 more are still to come, in the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music’s unprecedented multi-year project of research and recording. All are on the respected Naxos label’s “American Classics” series.Continue Reading
Celebrating Judaism through dance
2004-11-27
“The People of the Book are really dancers,” said Judith Brin Ingber, a dance historian from the University of Minnesota. Ingber came to Seattle for the UW World Series premiere of Klezmerbluegrass, a new choreography by the Paul Taylor Dance Company and commissioned by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.Continue Reading
Where histories intersect — on film
2004-11-27
Katinka Kraft, originally from Berlin, is the granddaughter of a Nazi soldier. Michal Blum is a fourth-generation Jewish Seattleite who grew up with Temple B’nai Torah. The two met seven years ago while studying performing arts at Fairhaven College in Bellingham. They became friends and began talking about doing aContinue Reading
Fall books: Big books for gift giving
2004-11-13
Books that are especially large or expensive, or have unique subject matter, are rarely purchased on a whim, but they make good gifts. Following are a selection of new releases you might consider as gifts or a special treat for yourself.Continue Reading
Juggling humor and bowling pins
2004-11-13
Greg Bennick is well-versed in keeping all of the balls in the air at once. It’s not just that he is well organized – he has been operating his own one-person business since he was a young teenager, by literally keeping all his balls in the air – Bennick isContinue Reading
Living legend Mort Sahl talks to Seattle
2004-10-30
Waiting for him to take the stage, the audience was reminded that the person they had come to see is literally a living legend. A slide show projected on a home movie screen flashed pictures of the young comedian talking politics in front of a crowd of ‘50s hipsters inContinue Reading
Pulitzer-winning composition headlines Music of Remembrance
2004-10-30
In early November, communities around the country and the world will observe the sixty-sixth anniversary of Kristallnacht, but only the Seattle observance will be marked by a concert. Since 1998, Music of Remembrance has been committed to the preservation and performance of Holocaust music and to the commissioning of newContinue Reading
Caouette’s Journey to Hell and Back
2004-10-30
LOS ANGELES – When gay Jewish filmmaker Jonathan Caouette was a preteen in Houston, he attended sock hops at the Baptist church near his home. Invariably, church elders warned he was destined for hellfire: “And I would tell them that I was possessed by the devil,” Caouette, 31, said.Continue Reading