Rock for the Ages
Scott Benarde
August 26, 1999
In 1995, while on the Florida leg of a concert tour, Bob Dylan walked into Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach and attended Yom Kippur services.
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Music
Skirball’s Sephardic Festival
Naomi Pfefferman
July 22, 1999
When you grow up in the States, all you know is Ashkenazi Jewish culture,\” laments Moroccan-Jewish musician Ron Elkayam. \”But that is such a small part of the continuum of Jewish life.\”
Music That Heals
Naomi Pfefferman
July 15, 1999
Whenever John Mauceri conducts the Israel Philharmonic, Israeli reporters ask him why an Italian Catholic is so preoccupied with Holocaust refugee composers.
Taste of KlezMex
Carvin Knowles
July 15, 1999
In spite of thunder, lightning, pouring rain and occasional gusts of unchecked sentimentalism, the Viva Klezmer-L\’Khayim Mariachi concert at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre on Sunday, July 11, was a high-energy, crowd-pleaser that mostly delivered on its promise to explore the intersection of the two forms.
Elias and Company
Naomi Pfefferman
June 3, 1999
You may know Jonathan Elias as the guy who composed the music to Chaplin and 9 1/2 Weeks. Or most of the songs on the Yes album, Union. Or the ditty to the original MTV promo, the one where the astronaut plants the MTV flag on the moon.
Striking a Discordant Note
Naomi Pfefferman
June 3, 1999
Gottfried Wagner was only 9 when he stole a key his father had hidden and slipped into the Festspielhaus, the shrine to his great-grandfather, Richard Wagner.
The Return of Poogy
Jewish Journal
May 13, 1999
The last time Poogy toured here was 1976, shortly before they broke up.
A Note of Appreciation
Michael Aushenker
April 29, 1999
Charles Feldman remembers Los Angeles as a city burgeoning with new synagogues but not a lot of innovative liturgical music at the time he began his career.
Noa’s Universal Appeal
Orit Arfa
April 22, 1999
When Achinoam Nini was growing up in the Bronx with her Yemenite-Israeli parents, her different name, exotic looks and diverse heritage made her feel out of place among her schoolmates.
The Day the Music Stopped
Naomi Pfefferman
March 11, 1999
On a warm summer day last year, Marc Alexander stood before a plaque on the old apartment building at 49 Smoke Street in Berlin, thinking of his grandfather.
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