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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Yiddish SummerDance
From June ’08 Spotlight: The Maxwell Street Klezmer Dance Orchestra will offer more traditional fun on Thursday, June 19, as part of Chicago’s annual SummerDance series, with support from Yiddish dance maven Steve Weintraub. All SummerDance programs are held in … Continue reading
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Andy Statman/OTSFM
From June ’08 Spotlight: When Andy Statman started his set at the Old Town School of Folk Music on March 30, I’ll confess I was confused. I came expecting Klezmer and I didn’t immediately warm to his clarinet improvisations. But … Continue reading
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Imaginary Coordinates
From June ’08 Spotlight: Spacious and beautifully-designed, the top floor of the new Spertus building is now a “must see” stop on our metro list of culturally-significant destinations. For its inaugural exhibition, Spertus combined two programmatic imperatives. The first is … Continue reading
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Office Tigers
From May ’08 Spotlight: In December, 2006, the Sundance Channel broadcast a fascinating 4-part series called Office Tigers. Although not yet available for purchase, members of Netfilx can now rent it as a re-edited 90-minute documentary. Director Liz Mermin has … Continue reading
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Refaeli Visit
From May ’08 Spotlight: Israeli filmmaker Adi Refaeli headlined two screenings of her award-winning short Empathy on Saturday, March 29 and Sunday, March 30. She also addressed members of Congregation Kol-Ami during Shabbat services on Friday, March 28, and met … Continue reading
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Dancing The Dream
From May ’08 Spotlight: Amit Goldenberg and Ya’ara Dolev, married to each other as well as their art, will present “Dancing The Dream” at the North Shore Center for Performing Arts in Skokie on Monday, May 12. The program, which … Continue reading
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
From May ’08 Spotlight:Susannah Heschel, the daughter of Abraham Joshua Heschel and a highly-accomplished scholar in her own right, began a speaking tour last year in honor of her father’s 100th birthday. Nextbook has scheduled a stop for her on … Continue reading
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CSO’s Thomashefsky Tribute
From May ’08 Spotlight: Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas’s name is typically associated with Grammy Award-winning recordings of Mahler symphonies and other high brow releases from the San Francisco Symphony. But Tilson Thomas is on his way to Chicago this month … Continue reading
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Steal A Pencil For Me
From Apr ’08 Spotlight: When I called Michèle Ohayon to ask about her new documentary Steal a Pencil for Me, she told me: “I thought I was numb to most Holocaust images since I’ve seen them before, but looking at … Continue reading
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Tal Grinfas-David
From Apr ’08 Spotlight: Tal Grinfas-David from Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel came to Spertus on February 24 to lecture on “A Century of Israeli Music.” She began by asking audience members how they defined Israeli … Continue reading
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