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The Schmooze Out and About: Greil Marcus on Bob Dylan; Eli Wallach at Home
Can Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim create a classical music revival? Greil Marcus talks about 40 years of writing about Bob Dylan. An exhibit of Palestinian art opens in Jaffa. Israeli film ambassador Meir Fenigstein doesn’t think Israel will receive an Oscar nomination this year. Neither does The Arty Semite. Christopher Glazek rips into…
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The Schmooze Biggest Bob Dylan Memorabilia For Sale
Bob Dylan fans have a new piece of memorabilia to consider buying: the building which housed the synagogue in which 13-year-old Bobby Zimmerman – who was called to the Torah as Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham – celebrated his bar mitzvah, back in 1954. The Hibbing, Minn. building was converted from a synagogue to an apartment…
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Opinion Tunes for Atonement I: Kol Nidre and Father of Night
We’re back for Week 2 of our High Holy Day songfest as promised, this time in two parts. Part One includes Bob Dylan, Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt and Joe Cocker, plus the legendary Cantor Moishe Oysher, Jerry Lewis (in a serious moment, sort of), Larry David and the Red Army Chorus performing with the Leningrad Cowboys….
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The Schmooze Talkin’ Bob Dylan Bootleg Blues
Last week, Columbia Records announced that it will be releasing the ninth volume of Bob Dylan’s long-running Bootleg Series on October 19. Titled “The Witmark Demos, 1962 – 1964,” the new collection will consist of 47 demo recordings Dylan made for his music publisher, the eponymous M. Witmark & Sons. In addition, Columbia will release…
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The Schmooze This Klezmer Kills Fascists
“The politics these days are the worst I’ve ever seen,” lamented Robert Kaplan of the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring. He was introducing The Klezmatics before they hit the stage at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park Bandshell on August 3 for the second show in the Music For a Better World series, which culminates on August 15 with…
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Books And Dylan Saw That It Was Good
Children’s books written by celebrities are pretty conventional these days. So it’s strange that Bob Dylan — who’s gotten nothing if not weirder over the past few years — is publishing one. But in reality, Dylan’s latest children’s book was already written, back in 1979. According a recent press release, “Man Gave Names to All…
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Life Dylan: Surfing Post-Irony or Has He Just Lost It?
For decades people have fought to claim Bob Dylan’s legacy as their own. Jews, Christians and old african-american Blues Men. Actually only in Dylan’s own mind have the latter actually joined the fray, but his contribution to American culture has been so incisive that many people have identified and so varied that it has been…
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