Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Remembering the Top of the Pops
‘Tonight we celebrate the keyboard and the life of a man who didn’t just play it — he inhabited it,” said composer, conductor, pianist and emcee-tummler Marvin Hamlisch at the 23rd New York Pops Birthday Gala, 88 Keys for Skitch, held May 8 at Carnegie Hall. (Skitch Henderson, founder and musical director of the Pops,…
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News Giving Children at Risk a Future
‘Three hundred thousand young people are seriously at risk in Israel and likely to become part of a criminal underclass unless something is done,” ELEM/America’s president, Ann Bialkin, cautioned at the organization’s May 10 ELEM — Youth in Distress in Israel benefit. “Each year, 23,000 juveniles are referred to the service and account for 45,000…
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News Putting Zorba in His Place
Fran Weissler, producer of “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Annie Get Your Gun,” “Gypsy” and “Chicago,” received the Spirit of Achievement Award on May 2 at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University National Women’s Division-New York Chapter luncheon, held at The Waldorf-Astoria. She recalled: “In 1983, Barry [Weissler, her husband] and I produced…
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News Peace, Love and Understanding
‘We’re in the people business. We stand for diversity,” Antonio “L.A.” Reid said to the crush of guests that he and his wife, Erica, were hosting for the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding’s April 25 benefit. Past foundation honoree Reid, chairman of The Island Def Jam Music Group, added, “Thank you for not spilling anything” —…
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News Keeping Memory Alive
‘In some paradoxical way, we each have come here to be alone — with our thoughts, with the last distant memory of loved ones long gone,” said David Marwell, director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, at a Holocaust Remembrance Day event held April 23 at Hunter College….
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News Hailing an Immigrant Landmark
It was a glorious day as the Circle Line boat looped past the Statue of Liberty and docked at Ellis Island for the April 19 Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards 2006 ceremony. “This is a symbolic journey into the past,” said Cynthia Garrett, superintendent of the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island. “Since…
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News Juilliard Celebrates Its Centennial
So oversubscribed was the April 3 Juilliard School Centennial Gala at Lincoln Center’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater that a number of guests ended up enjoying the concert on screens in the theater’s VIP lounge. Among the attendees were Linda Fierstein, Mary Rodgers, David Judelson, and Barbara Barrie. Between canapés, Barrie told me that being fired…
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News Students Confront ‘Hiroshima’
Because of my wartime survival thanks to one of Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara’s visas (which saved nearly 6,000 Jewish lives), and my 1941 sojourn in pre-Pearl Harbor Japan, Esther Nussbaum, librarian at New York City’s Ramaz Upper School, asked me to be one of the speakers at the school’s March 28 “Book Day 2006.” The…
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