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Holiday music puts the Cha Cha Cha in Chanukah
December always brings a torrent of Christmas-themed recordings by musical artists of all stripes. If you’re at all serious about longevity in a recording career, you record an album of holiday music — the sooner, the better.
Musical Journey in Time
Ah the \’60s. Those were the days when Geula, Aliza and Hedva would prance around in their khaki skirts in the Israeli military band — they were the highlight in entertainment for the young and naive Israel.
Soothing Music Memories
\”What I wanted was music that touches people\’s souls and hearts in many different ways in their time of need,\” Len Lawrence said.
Calendar
Friends of Valley Cities JCC and Westside JCC: 7:30 p.m. Celebrity staged play reading of \”Driving Miss Daisy\”with Charlotte Rae, Charlie Robinson and Alan Blumenfeld. $12-$16. Valley Cities JCC, Sherman Oaks.
7 Days In Arts
Bite off a rose, scoop up your honey and dance on down to the New JCC at Milken.
Mikveh Plunges Into Uncharted Waters
Since the klezmer revival exploded a quarter century ago, the Ashkenazi musical tradition has experienced more variations than deli sandwiches. There has been klezmer-infused jazz, hip-hop, bluegrass and most any other permutation one can imagine. But as klezmer has morphed from shtetl to nightclub fare, one of the most unusual things it has added is women, said musician-scholar Yale Strom.\n\n\”Traditionally, the purveyors of Yiddish songs and culture were women, but that didn\’t occur outside the home,\” said Strom, author of \”The Book of Klezmer\” (Chicago Review Press, 2002). \”Women did not play in klezmer bands because of the Orthodox prohibition against hearing a woman\’s voice and because nice Jewish girls stayed home.\”