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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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