Curt Leviant
By Curt Leviant
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News YOM KIPPUR
One day, more than two decades ago, I walked into a Jerusalem bookstore — and stepped into a mystery. At the store, I met a man who was shopping named Reb Moshe Ashbel, an elderly, white-bearded Russian immigrant. As we got to know each other, Ashbel told me that he was a Lubavitch Hasid, a…
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News Hearing the Klezmer in Golijov’s Operas
This Summer’s Tanglewood Festival, Sponsored Each Year by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Featured Several Works by Osvaldo Golijov, of Which the Major Contribution Was Ainadamar, An Hour-Long Chamber Opera. Golijov’s Talents for Vocal and Orchestral Composition Were Evident in This Moving and Powerful Work, An Opera That Combined Movement and Dance, Exhilarating Spanish Rhythms and…
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