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Composer’s hit musical spells success ‘B-E-E’
William Finn, composer, lyricist and creator of the hit musical, \”The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,\” says his own surname is the result of a misspelling. \”When my great-uncle came from Russia, he kept saying he was looking for someone named Fein, so the genius at Ellis Island gave him the name Finn,\” he breezily explains from his Manhattan apartment.
Steve Reich’s non-requiem for Daniel Pearl
When Judea Pearl asked composer Steve Reich to create a piece of music that would commemorate the life of his son, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, he knew what he did not want the music to be.
Music lovers get presents for composer Reich’s birthday
Steve Reich, composer, turns 70 and wonders what all the fuss is about.
Holiday tunes for when you haven’t got a prayer
The High Holidays provide some of the greatest frissons one can experience in a synagogue. And the music is, indeed, a big part of those rising chills.
A friend remembers culture booster John Rauch
John Rauch, the founder of The Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity, whose recent death at the age of 75 is a blow to the Los Angeles Jewish cultural scene; Barbara \”Bobbi\” Asimow died Aug. 22 of cancer at 63.
Richard Wagner’s Day of Reckoning
Was Richard Wagner, Hitler\’s favorite composer, a classical anti-Semite and proto-Nazi or has conventional assumption given him a bad rap?
Show Celebrates Spectrum of Arlen Songs
It\’ll be nostalgia time at the Ford Amphitheatre when Harold Arlen\’s greatest tunes come alive again for the concert \”The Wonderful Wizard of Song.
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