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Forverts in English As the corona crisis continues, our kids could use some Tchaikovsky
Read this article in Yiddish As I arrived in Washington Heights to pick up my 3-year old grandson for my weekly babysitting gig, I decided that this was going to be a different kind of ride. After buckling him in and settling myself behind the wheel, I told him that instead of letting him watch…
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Music How To Listen to Tchaikovsky While Looking Past His Anti-Semitism
Editor’s Note: Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky was born on this day in May 7, 1840. Here’s a look at the brilliant composer’s complicated history: When the conductor Semyon Bychkov arrived at a Russian-style cafe in midtown Manhattan to discuss the upcoming Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky festival at the New York Philharmonic, I handed the conductor a one-page…
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Culture Tchaikovsky’s ‘Great’ Big Jewish Problem
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – While researching his latest one-man show, “Our Great Tchaikovsky,” Hershey Felder — a playwright, actor and composer who has brought the loves, torments and soaring music of some of the world’s greatest composers to the stage — faced a moral question. Does towering talent exculpate a composer, or any artist, for…
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Culture How To Listen to Tchaikovsky While Looking Past His Anti-Semitism
When the conductor Semyon Bychkov arrived at a Russian-style cafe in midtown Manhattan to discuss the upcoming Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky festival at the New York Philharmonic, I handed the conductor a one-page document I’d found that morning that had unveiled a new Tchaikovsky for me. It summarized two boxes at the Columbia University Rare Book…
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The Schmooze Jewish ‘Nutcracker’ Comes to San Francisco
Tired of the same old Nutcracker? Looking for a new — and Jewish — twist on that holiday classic? Look no further than “The Jewish Nutcracker, A Maccabee Celebration” in San Francisco. World Dance Fusion is presenting this holiday season a performance that unites the Tchaikovsky’s score with a fusion of various international dance genres….
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The Schmooze Friday Film: ‘Black Swan’
Excepting the Coen brothers’ “True Grit” remake, or Disney’s blockbusting, multidimensional sequel to “Tron,” is there any film more anticipated this awards season than Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan”? Let’s rephrase that, for the sake of brevity. Is there any non-Jeff Bridges film more anticipated this awards’ season than “Black Swan”? Probably not. Ever since the…
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