Aviv Geffen
Naomi Pfefferman
February 17, 2000
On a starry night in November 1995, tragedy transformed rock star Aviv Geffen into an Israeli Gen-X icon.
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Music
Recreating the World
Tom Tugend
January 13, 2000
An innovative musical service will premiere simultaneously at 40 synagogues in the United States and Canada on Shabbat Shirah, the Sabbath of Song, on Jan. 21.\nEleven Southland synagogues will participate in the event.\n\n
Zen Cowboy
Michael Aushenker
January 6, 2000
There\’s a new singing cowboy in town, and his name is Ken Kunin.\n\”I\’ve been in this crazy industry for about 10 years,\” says the lead vocalist/songwriter. And he\’s about to turn up the heat.\n\nHis band, davis waits, has been receiving radio airplay , including on local outlets KLOS and KTTC; and a cross-country tour in support of their new album, \”the evolution of…,\” will follow after the New Year.
Olmos Connects
Marlene Adler Marks
December 16, 1999
Edward James Olmos wants to connect. Give him a large multi-ethnic crowd — as was on hand Sunday at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles — and he\’ll split himself into pieces finding common links.
Bitton Sings Piaf
Naomi Pfefferman
December 2, 1999
Raquel Bitton was 22, her first love affair over, when she reached into her father\’s dusty old box of 33\’s and pulled out an Edith Piaf album. \”I thought I would never fall in love again,\” says the chanteuse, now 38, who previously had spurned what she perceived as her father\’s \”old-fashioned\” music.\nBut while locked in her room with a broken heart, Bitton avidly listened as the late French icon sang of love and resilience. I thought, \’My God, she is talking about me,\’\” recalls the Moroccan-born Jew. \”And I knew I had found my voice.\”
Symphonic Globe Trotter
Jewish Journal
November 25, 1999
It says something about Gisele Ben-Dor\’s dedication to her profession that when she made her conducting debut with the Israel Philharmonic in 1983, she was nine months pregnant.\nHer concluding piece was Stravinsky\’s \”The Rite of Spring,\” which, in view of her particular condition, was renamed by the orchestra as \”The Rite of the Offspring.\”\n\n
Flash! Handel’s Chanukah Oratorio in Yiddish
Carvin Knowles
November 25, 1999
In a concert entitled \”The Light of Helfman-Generations of Music from the Brandeis-Bardin Institute\”, which celebrates Max Helfman, founder of Brandeis Bardin\’s Summer Arts Institute, the LAJS will inaugurate its sixth season with a performance of Handel\’s triumphant \”Judas Maccabeus\” in a Yiddish translation by Helfman.
Enrico Suavé
Curt Schleier
October 28, 1999
In 1961, a saddened and disheartened 23-year-old Algerian school teacher and musician named Gaston Ghenassia was merely one of the thousands of refugees on a ship bound for France, leaving his homeland in the aftermath of the Algerian Revolution. Little did he know at the time how defining a moment it was to become in his life.
New Year’s Sounds
George Robinson
September 9, 1999
The number \”three\” doesn\’t play an especially important part in Jewish lore and customs. But the pre-High Holy Day musical rush brought to my desk several trios of related recordings, so it\’s fitting to deal with them in groups of threes.
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