Les Block, our music maven
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR It’s hard to know where to start when writing a remembrance of Les Block, a multifaceted musician, ...
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Gershwin and his friends
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR A conversation with Les Block, our local music maven, wends through time and space, and touches on ...
Music leads the way to romance
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Regarding the concept behind his new album, Notes from New York (Impulse!), pianist Bill Charlap mentions that ...
Ira Gershwin penned lyrics that endure
Don’t miss Words By: Ira Gershwin and the Great American Songbook, by Joe Vass, onstage at Park Square Theatre Reviewed ...
Park Square presents 'Words By… Ira Gershwin'
Park Square Theater presents Words By... Ira Gershwin and the Great American Songbook, which runs through Dec. 29. This is ...
Max Raabe’s gonna party like it’s 1929
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Singer Max Raabe stands erect before the microphone, garbed in a tuxedo and tails with his blonde ...
Famous Jews in American music — from Irving Berlin to Matisyahu
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR It’s hard to imagine American popular song without the contributions of Jewish composers and lyricists. Names like ...
Jews wrote a big chunk of the Great American Songbook
David Lehman, the author of seven volumes of poetry, examines what is Jewish about American popular song, and how Jewish ...
