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Jorge Drexler, the Philosopher King of Latin Pop, Plays The Town Hall

Jorge Drexler in 2018 (AEG/Golden Voice)

Jorge Drexler is a Jewish Uruguayan, Academy Award ("El Otro Lado del Rio") and Latin Grammy Award-winning , singer-songwriter. That's a mouthful, but Drexler has a lot to say. After the Chilean Nobel-prize winner Pablo Neruda, Jorge Drexler is our favorite poet in Spanish. Both write of the inner life with the richest metaphors. Jorge Drexler in New York City The … [Read more...] about Jorge Drexler, the Philosopher King of Latin Pop, Plays The Town Hall

Remember Leonard Bernstein, Composer of “West Side Story”

Leonard Bernstein rehearsing at Carnegie Hall around 1946-48 (PD/William Gottlieb/Library of Congress)

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was an American composer and conductor, one of the giants of 20th century music. He was a classical artist, but in true New York style, mixed classical music with jazz and Broadway. Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on August 25, 1918. Incidentally, that was during the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918-1920. He was one of the artists … [Read more...] about Remember Leonard Bernstein, Composer of “West Side Story”

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Frédéric Zaavy

Frédéric Zaavy bracelet detail (courtesy Taylor & Dubler)

Frédéric Zaavy was an extraordinary Parisian jeweler whose short career launched him into the stratosphere as the lead designer of the legendary house of Fabergé. We are literally made of stardust. The more we learn about the tiny universe smaller than the atom, and the great universe where stars are born, the more we understand that everything in nature is connected, … [Read more...] about Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Frédéric Zaavy

Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything at the Jewish Museum

Leonard Cohen. Courtesy The Jewish Museum.

Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything is an exhibition of contemporary art inspired by the great poet at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan's Upper East Side, Thursday-Tuesday,  April 12 to September 8, 2019. From $8 The exhibition features works by twelve artists and eighteen musicians from ten countries. Leonard Cohen "Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your … [Read more...] about Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything at the Jewish Museum

Chuck Schumer U.S. Senator from New York

Charles "Chuck" Schumer | courtesy U.S. Senate

Charles E. Schumer Charles "Chuck" Schumer is the senior U.S. Senator for New York State. Schumer was elected in 1998. He is up for reelection in 2022. Schumer is a Democrat. He is the leader of the U.S. Senate's Democratic Caucus. The "Minority Leader" does not serve on any committees. Chuck Schumer's New York City Office Charles E. Schumer 780 Third Avenue, Suite … [Read more...] about Chuck Schumer U.S. Senator from New York

‘Modigliani Unmasked’ explores questions of identity

Amedeo Modigliani, Unfinished Portrait of Paul Alexandre, 1913. Oil on canvas. 31½ x 25¾ in. Private collection on long-term loan to the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen

Modigliani Unmasked is an exhibition of Italian-Jewish artist Amedeo Modigliani's early drawings at the Jewish Museum in the Upper East Side from September 15, 2017 - February 4, 2018. Amedeo Modigliani Amedeo Modigliani (1884 - 1920) was a Sephardic Jew born in Italy. Sephardi are the old Jewish culture of Spain and the Mediterranean. Sephardi were expelled from Spain … [Read more...] about ‘Modigliani Unmasked’ explores questions of identity

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe asks one of the big questions of our time. Zweig was looking for his answer to “the most simple and vital question of all: a peaceful co-existence in today’s world, despite all our differences of race, class and religion.” The Austrian-Jewish writer was one of the great international authors of the 1930s. When Europe began to self-destruct, … [Read more...] about Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

Conductor Saul Zaks embraces the ends of the world (Interview)

Saul Zaks by Jørn Sønderborg

Saul Zaks is a Latin Grammy-nominated conductor from Argentina, who lives and works in Denmark. In 2016 Zaks' Sax to Tango (ZOHO Music) earned a Latin Grammy nomination for "Best Tango Album." The album features famous Tangos by Astor Piazzolla, Pablo Ziegler, and others. Zaks conducted the University of Southern Denmark Symphony Orchestra, with saxophone soloist Julio Botti. … [Read more...] about Conductor Saul Zaks embraces the ends of the world (Interview)

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Ailyn Pérez in "Florencia el el Amazonas" (Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera)

Mexican Opera “Florencia en el Amazonas” Stars Ailyn Pérez in Spanish at the Metropolitan Opera

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Arturo O'Farrill and Juan Gutiérrez "Navidad Nuyorkina" (Hostos Center)

Los Pleneros de la 21 Celebrate 40 Years with Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra “Una Navidad Nuyorkina” at Hostos

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Papo Vázquez (artist/Hostos)

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Ballet Nepantla "Nacimiento" (Nina Galicheva/BN)

Ballet Nepantla “Nacimiento” is a Holiday Folkloric Ballet About The Birth of the Mexican People From Indigenous and Spanish Roots

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