Bob Dylan: In His Own Lyrics
Jewish Journal
October 13, 2005
Nods to religion in Bob Dylan\’s song lyrics.
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My Brilliant Masterpiece
J. Keith van Straaten
September 8, 2005
All the Casanovas open with some killer line.
I stick my foot into my mouth every single time.
If I were a great artist, I would use my expertise,
Turn this foolish scene into my brilliant masterpiece. — Don Conoscenti
That\’s the chorus of a song by a singer-songwriter I stumbled upon while trying to think of something to say to a girl in a music club in Kentucky.
In the midst of wishing I knew what to say, I listened to this troubadour with a whole song about wishing he could know what to say.
Noa Back With New Album, Daughter
Kelly Hartog
November 18, 2004
Renowned recording artist Noa, known as Achinoam Nini in Israel, is currently at home basking in the glory of her latest creation.
And no, it\’s not a new album.
It\’s her daughter, Enéa. \”It means \’her eyes\’ in Hebrew,\” says Noa, who has written a song with the same title.
Mr. ‘Saturday Night’
Michael Aushenker
May 24, 2001
If there are two blockbuster motion pictures that stand as the defining pop-cultural phenomena of the 1970s, they are, arguably, \”Star Wars\” and \”Saturday Night Fever.\” And while \”Star Wars — the Broadway Musical\” is probably not as far-off as we may think, \”Saturday Night Fever — The Broadway Musical\” is already here. As in here … in Los Angeles.
Composing Life
Naomi Pfefferman
November 30, 2000
On the cover of Jack Bielan\’s new CD, \”From the Heart of a Jewish Soul,\” a pianist plays as his keyboard expands and spirals heavenward. Below, the glow from two yahrtzeit candles joins the keys soaring into the clouds.
‘Strange Fruit’ and Stalinism
David Evanier
August 24, 2000
Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
David Margolick, writer of books and articles on legal issues for The New York Times and Vanity Fair, has hit a raw nerve with his haunting book, \”Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights\” (Running Press). The book is an account of the scalding impact of one song – a song about a lynching – on scores of Ameri-can activists, writers, musicians, artists and intellectuals.
The Lady Behind the Dancing Man
Wendy J. Madnick
August 24, 2000
Around the end of August, every year for the past 20 years, the Chabad Telethon comes around. It gets so you can\’t drive anywhere without seeing the purple banners featuring the silhouette of a man wearing tzitzit and dancing joyously to some unheard song.
Being Perfect
Rabbi Steven Z. Leder
March 23, 2000
Consider the lyrics of Cheryl Wheeler\’s song \”Unworthy\”:
Ten Days of Atonement
Jamie Pachino
September 2, 1999
A year after my father\’s unexpected death from a kidney transplant, I returned home.
Six months earlier, my mother had sold our house, the one I had lived in my entire life.
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