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Jewish new year 5786. Melanie Long's An American Voice now streamingStarring Melanie Long, soprano | Seth Weinstein, piano
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When | Wednesday, July 23, 7 p.m. |
Where | Hungarian House 213 East 82nd Street, New York City (Directions via Google Maps) |
Tickets | General admission $38, via OvationTix |
More | LOONY site |
An ebullient and moving mix of charismatic, clever, controlling, and comforting female characters and female lyricists, poets, composers, and arrangers. The concert will feature a 1970s American feminist favorite (in Yiddish, of course) and hits from the Barry Sisters, Adrienne Cooper, Molly Picon, and Sophie Tucker!
Supertitles and a program with translations are provided; no knowledge of Yiddish is necessary.
When | Sunday, September 14, 1 p.m. |
Where | Merkin Concert Hall 129 West 67th Street, New York City (Directions via Google Maps) |
Tickets | $54
reserved seating $40 per ticket for groups of 10: Reserve at (212) 501-3330 |
More | Yiddish Philharmonic
Chorus
site Kaufman Music Center site |
An eight-movement piano suite inspired by Marc Chagall's paintings, drawings, and stained-glass windows. The performance, the first of the Sunrise Theater's 2025–2026 Classical Concert Series, will include a slideshow of Chagall's artworks that highlight the sections' various themes. The event is produced by the Arts Council of Moore County.
When | Monday, October 6, 7:30 p.m. |
Where | Sunrise Theater 250 Northwest Broad Street, Southern Pines, N.C. (Directions via Google Maps) |
Tickets |
$35 (four-concert subscription $115, or $96 for Arts Council members) Tickets available by phone at (910) 692-2787 and at the Arts Council's offices (Campbell House, 482 East Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines) |
More |
The Chagall Suite Arts Council of Moore County site Vivian Jacobson's site |
My endeavor to walk the perimeters of 26 islands, one for each letter of the alphabet.
Ikaria (Abecedarian Walk
#24, April 2025)
Réunion (Abecedarian
Walk #23, October-November 2024)
Fasta Åland (Abecedarian
Walk #22, June 2024)
Yell (Abecedarian Walk
#21, April-May 2024)
Niue
& Dogojima (Abecedarian Walks #19 and #20, February-March 2024)
Quinchao (Abecedarian
Walk #18, December 2023-January 2024)
Usedom (Abecedarian Walk #17,
November 2023)
Jeju & Xiamen (Abecedarian
Walks #15 & #16, August 2023)
Eysturoy (Abecedarian Walk #14, June
2023)
Kangaroo Island & Singapore
(Abecedarian Walks #12 & #13, February-March 2023)
Vieques (Abecedarian Walk
#11, November 2022)
Hiiumaa (Abecedarian Walk #10, June-July 2022)
Isle of Wight
(Abecedarian Walk #9, May 2022)
Bonaire (Abecedarian Walk
#8, February 2022)
Tenerife (Abecedarian Walk #7, January 2022)
Curaçao (Abecedarian Walk #6, November 2021)
Malta & Gozo (Abecedarian Walks #4 and #5, August 2021)
Oahu (Abecedarian Walk #3, May 2021)
Zanzibar
(Abecedarian Walk #2, February-March 2021)
Aruba
(Abecedarian Walk #1, December 2020 to January 2021)
Diners of New Jersey
Walk
(October 2020)
NYC-Boston
Walk (August-September 2020)
The Train to That Thing in the Desert (by train, mostly, from the 2022 Scrabble Players Championship in Baltimore to Burning Man in the Nevada desert)