Monthly Archives: November 2009

esther’s song

purim in novem­ber On Thurs­day night, Novem­ber 19, 2009, Deb­bie and I went to see the opera Esther at the New York City Opera in Lin­coln Cen­ter. The opera, the last one by com­pos­er Hugo Weis­gall is based on the bib­li­cal … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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steve’s song

jews and judaism in amer­i­can elite cul­ture .01 On Sun­day evening, Novem­ber 8, 2009 I attend­ed “Steve Reich Talks about his Jew­ish Music at JMF”. I was a bit sur­prised (after being told to reserve my free tick­ets in advance) that there were … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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