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Home News and events About me Biography, background, press, and tidbits both musical and nonmusical My musicals Five shows I've written, including one that ran Off-Broadway in 2006 and one currently in development The Chagall Suite A commissioned 8-movement piano piece inspired by Marc Chagall's artworks, and a tribute to Chagall and Elvis Listen Hear my music on this site and buy my recordings Musical direction See my ideas regarding musical direction, see my resume, or let me coach you for auditions and give you accompaniment tracks to practice with Transcription services Send me a recording to create sheet music from, or have me transpose or arrange a song or instrumental work Travelogues Read accounts of my long-term trips and my experience on the Fosse tour Mailing list Subscribe to receive news and travelogues | NewsJune 16 and September 15 | The Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus: "From Varshe and Vilne to Vashington Heights"Binyumen Schaechter, conductor | Seth Weinstein, pianistSongs on the theme of Jewish immigration, sung in Yiddish, with brand-new choral arrangements and different takes on familiar songs including "To Life" from Fiddler on the Roof, Little Buttercup's song from H.M.S. Pinafore, "Di goldene land," and Neil Diamond's "America." Song introductions and English supertitles will keep you fully engaged, even if you don't know a word of Yiddish. We'll end with a choral adaptation of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," with a Yiddish translation that promotes the "melting pot" idea — a century after the Immigration Act of 1924 subsequently turned away so many Jews trying to escape the Holocaust.
January 7 | Jodi Keogan at the Collier County Public Library in Naples, Fla.Jodi Keogan, soprano | Seth Weinstein, pianistA concert of opera, musical theatre, and film, with a little Spanish and Italian to round things out.
The Abecedarian Walks | Updates on Instagram and TwitterMy endeavor to walk the perimeters of 26 islands, one for each letter of the alphabet. Recent walks: Diners of New Jersey
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(October 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)
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