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For Gershwin’s early life and compositions through Rhapsody In Blue, please see our George Gershwin - An American Rhapsody, In Blue (Part I). Swanee had made Gershwin independent, as had many hit songs and musicals by him and Ira. This left him free to...
by Tippy and Dad
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on Thu Nov 06, 2025 at 04:00 PM PST
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Welcome to Dvar Torah/ A Song of Zion , our periodic check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily ...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Oct 02, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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George Gershwin was born ‘Jacob Gershwine’ Sept. 26, 1898 in a 2nd-floor Brooklyn Apartment. His parents were refugees from Imperial Russia, where persecution of Jews had been increasing under the autocratic Czar Alexander III. His father Moishe...
by Tippy and Dad
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on Thu Oct 09, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Mon. Sept 22 erev Rosh HaShanah 5786 Archive: SOUNDS OF THE HIGH HOLIDAYS — posts by ramara including amazing shofar service, Avinu Malkenu, Kol Nidre... Two versions of Kol Nidre: ….vocal…. ...orchestral…. Archive: Or Even Higher, a...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Sep 18, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Aaron Copland was born on November 14, 1900 in Brooklyn, to conservative Jewish parents from Russian Lithuania. They were active in the Kane Street Synagogue and were Democrats. The introverted and bookish Aaron would become more staunchly Leftist. His...
by Tippy and Dad
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on Thu Aug 07, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Arnold Schoenberg was first of all a magisterial composer who wrote just gorgeous Classical and Romantic music, before developing his Expressionistic style. But since the latter made him famous, students and the public are often exposed to his more...
by Tippy and Dad
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on Thu Sep 04, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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During his lifetime, Aaron Copland was known as “The Dean of American Music.” This title has withstood the test of time and he stands firmly as one of the most influential composers and teachers in American musical history, and probably THE most in the...
by Tippy and Dad
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on Thu Jul 03, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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... Copland was an ardent progressive, even before going to Paris to study with the great Nadia Boulanger, where he met many of the leading Leftists of his time from Picasso to Gide to Hemingway to all the French Composers. An advocate of Roosevelt and...
by mettle fatigue
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on Mon Jun 30, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Welcome to Dvar Torah/ A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews are welcome but we ask that they listen more than speak. No...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Jun 07, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Welcome to A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews are welcome but we ask that they listen more than speak. No squabbling,...
by Tippy and Dad
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on Thu May 08, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Welcome to Dvar Torah / A Song of Zion, our intermittant check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews are welcome but we ask that they listen more than speak....
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu May 01, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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The Dura-Europos synagogue was an ancient Jewish former synagogue discovered in 1932 at Dura-Europos, Syria. The former synagogue contained a forecourt and house of assembly with painted walls depicting people and animals, and a Torah shrine in the...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Apr 12, 2025 at 05:17 PM PDT
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Background music for reading, if you like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBoTwm5Rfk8 from JIMENA’s Passover & Mimouna guide: — SO much more at the link!! e.g., the unique Libyan Bsisa ceremony, which honors the central role of women during Passover,...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Apr 03, 2025 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Welcome to A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews are welcome but we ask that they listen more than speak. No squabbling,...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Mar 06, 2025 at 03:30 PM PST
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Greetings folks! � Welcome to A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews ...
by Navy Vet Terp
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on Thu Feb 06, 2025 at 03:00 PM PST
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Once again as a final send off of the individual hostages, a crowd ominously surrounds them for one final sadistic parting jab. At least that is how various hostages have described their feelings of being threatened by the mob seeing them off. Ten down...
by prgst
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on Fri Jan 31, 2025 at 08:31 AM PST
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From RNS Nov 2023 “Gentile musicians help preserve Bosnian Sephardic Jewish tradition: A cadre of Bosnian musicians have realized that with the death of Ladino music's most famous singer-songwriter (Flory Jagoda), an essential part of Bosnian culture...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Jan 02, 2025 at 04:00 PM PST
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Julie Benko from “Funny Girl” combines “Tomorrow” with Cantor Azi Schwartz singing the blessings for lighting the Chanukia. JTA article here. . “Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” The Invincible Strategy. ...“Evil is not overcome...
by mettle fatigue
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on Wed Dec 25, 2024 at 04:57 PM PST
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Well folks, it’s been a rough 24 hours. I was hoping to write a lovely profile of our next first man. But here we are. Some of us want to speak our sorrow, look at what’s ahead, and mourn what seems inevitably lost. Some like me, se a horrible...
by Eccaba
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on Thu Nov 07, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
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Parsha titles come from the first meaningful words in a given Torah portion, a sort of bookmark, “this week’s readings start here”, with no sure sign of subjects involved. In the case of Parashat Chayei-Sarah (Bereishit/ Gen. 23:1 to 25:18, haftarah 1...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Dec 05, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
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