Eileen Reynolds
By Eileen Reynolds
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News How an Anti-Terror Program Became a Jewish Earmark
Examining the grants program provides a window into Jewish organizational and political power. It is this power that allowed a small community to create and maintain a government program tailored specifically for its needs and catering almost exclusively to its members
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The Schmooze Monday Music: The Klezmatics at 25
Courtesy of GAT publicity The Klezmatics are 25 this year (where does the time go?), and to mark the anniversary, they’ve released “Live at Town Hall,” a two-disc recording of a performance given in New York five years ago. That concert, itself an exuberant 20th anniversary celebration, was recorded in conjunction with “The Klezmatics: On…
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The Schmooze Video: The Rosh Hashanah Rock Anthem
Remember that peculiar Kia commercial with hamsters dancing to LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem”? Not exactly an instant classic — but the Shmooze does appreciate Aish.com’s new Rosh Hashanah-themed remake of that song. With lines like “Three times a day I’m shucklin’ shucklin’, shucklin,” and “Stand up, sit down, pass the prayer books around,” the tongue-in-cheek…
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The Schmooze Monday Music: Saxophonist Unearths New Aaron Copland Score
“You may find it implausible that we are announcing a world premiere by the venerable (and dead) American composer Aaron Copland,” boasts the press release for saxophonist-composer Christopher Brellochs’s new CD, “Quiet City.” Implausible, yes, and perhaps only half true. The piece in question is the score Copland wrote to accompany an Irwin Shaw play…
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The Schmooze Out and About: Philip Glass Signs a Book Deal; Was Wagner So Bad?
Woody Allen casts Rome’s real-life paparazzi as themselves. Washington Post music critic Anne Midgette defends Steve Reich’s controversial ‘WTC 9/11’ album cover. Ralph Branca’s mother was Jewish. So what? David P. Goldman wonders whether Wagner’s music should be banned in Israel. Meet Leah Caras, creator of Yaldah, a glossy teen magazine for Orthodox girls. Khaled…
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The Schmooze When It Comes to Gay Rights and Klezmer, the Musical Is Also Political
Photo by Angela Jimenez. At a July 26 concert at 92YTribeca in celebration of New York’s first legal same-sex marriages, the singer-guitarist Nedra Johnson struggled to find the words to describe the relationships between love, politics and the blues. In an age in which sex and marriage are subjects of legislative debate, she reasoned, performing…
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The Schmooze Monday Music: Do You Know Where the Party’s At?
Purgar Peter It would not be hard to make a party game of picking out the global influences in the New York-based band Hazmat Modine’s new album, “Cicada.” There’s a Latin groove here; a klezmer-ish flourish there; a hint of Jamaican rocksteady; an intermittent country twang; whole tracks featuring a West African brass band. Music…
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The Schmooze Celebrating Gay Marriage at ‘The Greenwich Village Follies’
Photo by Peter James Zielinski There are times when a trip to the theater is more than just an evening out — times when there’s something in the air (fairy dust? a benevolent ghost?) that transforms a merely great performance into the kind that makes all your hairs stand on end. June 26, for those…
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