By Tom L. Freudenheim
SUMMER FILM: ‘Portrait of Wally’ tells the shaggy-dog story of the eponymous 1912 Egon Schiele painting: Its theft by a Nazi art dealer and the owners’ efforts to get it back.
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By Tom L. Freudenheim
After listening to and viewing a rehearsal for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s presentation of “In Seven Days,” the 2008 concerto for piano and moving image by Thomas Adès and Tal Rosner
being performed January 7 and 8 at Avery Fisher Hall, I was ready to become a creationist.
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By Tom L. Freudenheim
Despite my voraciously Jewish eye, checking out museums in France’s Brittany for interesting exhibitions wasn’t likely to yield anything of Jewish Interest. “Brittany and Jews” seemed a stretch — maybe like “the elephant and the Jewish problem.”Read More
By Tom L. Freudenheim
Growing up in the 1940s, when my family members and I were still relatively new Americans, there were various German words I heard often around the house:Read More