Grammy Winner James Ehnes in Candid Interview on Art & Fine Living with Jona

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Canadian violinist James Ehnes was the honoured guest on radio show Art & Fine Living with Jona, produced and hosted by Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom, a mere 24 hours after receiving the coveted Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra. The winning album of violin concertos by Walton, Korngold and Barber, was recorded with Bramwell Tovey and the
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

During the interview, Ehnes professed his joy and surprise at having won the coveted prize for the first recording executed with Maestro Tovey. He spoke candidly about many aspects of his life and career in music, recounting his childhood interest in the violin and the incident the night before his first professional appearance, at sixteen, with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra . He talked about his relationship with his current manager, whose former client was the legendary pianist Glenn Gould, and elaborated on the Walton violin concerto. The first movement of the Walton concerto and the Barber concerto were featured on the show as well. The entire interview can be accessed online on the host’s page of archived programs.

Over the past six years, Jona Rapoport’sunique show has evolved from four separate programs dedicated to the arts to its present format.  Ms Rapoport combines enlightening interviews with artists, presenters and trend-makers from around the world, with a lively presentation of music and updates on upscale lifestyle trends. Her guests have all expressed strong support and admiration for her tireless efforts and scope.

Previous guests on the show include: Cinema: Mike Newell, George Weiss; Photography: Varda Pollack-Sahm;  Dance: Callye Robinson,Lina Cruz, Margie Gillis, Shen Wei; Visual Arts: Boaz Kaizman, Sandra Grant-Marchand, Joanne Lamoureux; Classical Instrumentalists: Violinist Jonathan Crow, Pianist Lang Lang, Violinist Gil Shaham, Cellist Denise Djokic, Cellist Yuli Turovsky, Violinist Sophie Dugas, Violinist Jonathan Crow; Composers: Thomas Beveridge, Ofer Ben-Amots, Lori Laitman; Classical Vocalists: Bass Denis Sedov, Soprano Hasmik Papian, Soprano Natalie Dessay, Soprano Manon Feubel, Mezzo Michèle Losier, Tenor Ben Heppner, Tenor Richard Margison, Tenor Frederic Antoun, Tenor Marc Hervieux; Specialists: Michel Beaulac (Opera), Pierre Vachon (Opera), Chantal Lambert (Opera); Jazz/World: Carol Welsman, Sophie Milman, Harry Connick Jr, Alain Caron, Walter Blanding, Imani Gonzales, Sean Lennon; Conductors: Yuli Turovsky, Jacques Lacombe, Rolf Bertsch, Yannick Nezet- Seguin, Ascher Fisch; Theatre: Vittorio Rossi, Peter Hinton, Quincy Armorer, Daniel Brooks, Caroline Cave ,Mark Watty, Roy Surette; Travel: George Deeb, Marian Marbury; Fine Living: Publisher and antique expert,Terry Kovel.

http://www.radio-shalom.ca/showemission.php?ID=1015

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A Living Lens: The Never-Before-Seen Forward’s Archives

  Sunday, September 30 at 2 pm
Booksigning to follow
$12 | $10 members | $8 students
Call 312.322.1743 or email rsvp@spertus.edu

For the first time in its 110-year history, the archives of the Jewish Daily Forward were opened to create this newly released photographic chronicle of Jewish life. The Forward’s Samuel Norich shares images (and the stories behind them) from Lower East Side pushcarts, a shtetl beauty contest, and labor rallies to unexpected gems such as Harry Truman’s haberdashery, Rabbi Schachter-Shalomi explaining Kabbalah to the Dalai Lama, and a New Orleans synagogue flooded by Hurricane Katrina.

Samuel Norich is executive director of the Forward Association, and publisher of the Forward and the Forverts. He currently serves as vice president of Ameinu (formerly the Labor Zionist Alliance) and on the boards of the American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters Museum, the Jewish Labor Committee, and the Claims Conference. He is a graduate of Columbia University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at the University of Wisconsin.

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“LAST DAYS OF THE FOUR SEASONS”

A new photo-documentary exhibit exploring the final years of a unique Catskills bungalow colony built by and for Holocaust survivors has just been completed and is being prepared for publication and touring.

 Through lush large format photographs, audio oral histories and text, it takes a counter-intuitive upbeat approach as it explores the lives of the lodgers of this thirty-year old yet nearly extinct community.  Set against the backdrop of the fading Catskills colonies of yesteryear, it addresses themes of Holocaust survivors, positive living for the elderly, and the Jewish American experience.

 For more information on the exhibit, or the artist , Rick Nahmias, please contact info@rcnphoto.com.

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How does it feel to be called a JAP?

I will be presenting the interactive piece acciones plásticas for the first time, at the 2007 SAIC Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition.
Please take this as an opportunity to let your voice be heard.

PROVE THAT THESE ARE IN FACT STEREOTYPES!!!

I welcome anyone who would like to offer a response online, either written or in the form of a video blog. Remember that the acciones plásticas videos are not the stereotypes themselves, they are women who have be affected by their presence. Read the rest of this entry »

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Traces of Memory, by Chris Schwarz

The British photojournalist, Chris Schwarz has been working in Poland since the 1980s. In 2004, he founded the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow - an educational centre and exhibition space devoted to Jewish culture and civilization in Polish Galicia. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography

visit the San Francisco´s Contemporary Jewish Museum

This exhibition features thirteen emerging and mid-career artists who were commissioned by the Museum to create ten projects focusing on different Jewish communities in the United States. Through the works of these photographers, the exhibition addresses issues relevant to Jewish and non-Jewish audiences, as it looks at real and constructed boundaries between people. Using Jewish culture as a lens, The Jewish Identity Project examines the hybrid and complex racial, national and cultural identity of contemporary Americans. Read the rest of this entry »

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Jewish-Now, at Berlin Museum

The Jewish Museum Berlin is extending the special exhibition “Jewish – now. Photographs and Interviews” for almost 4 weeks until 25 February 2007. In various series of photographs, students intensively explored a theme with which they were unfamiliar at the outset: Jewish life in Germany today.

The exhibition, which presents two projects completed by students from the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz (communication design) and the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld (photography and media studies), shows work which reflects considerable openness and curiosity, but also sensitivity. Read the rest of this entry »

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Saul Bass @ the SKirball in Los Angeles

SAUL BASS
The Hollywood Connection
January 4–April 1
Ruby and Hurd Galleries
Free
www.skirball.org
 During his distinguished career, graphic designer Saul Bass (1920–1996) became a legend for conceiving the now-iconic logos of such companies as AT&T and United Airlines. Bass is also recognized for transforming motion-picture title sequences from static typography into an art form. This exhibition focuses on Bass’s work for the American film industry. On view are posters, soundtrack-album covers, Bass’s storyboard of the famous shower scene in Psycho (1960), and continuous screenings of a montage of selected film titles edited by Bass and his wife, Elaine. The documentary Why Man Creates (1968), for which Bass won an Academy Award, will also be screened in the exhibition.
 
It was award-winning filmmaker Otto Preminger who offered Bass his first opportunity to design a title sequence—for the film Carmen Jones (1954). From this groundbreaking early experience, Bass would come to work with such illustrious filmmakers as Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Martin Scorcese, all of whom valued Bass’s creative use of animation, live action, and dynamic typography. Bass—who, beginning with Spartacus (1960), collaborated with his wife, Elaine—produced more than fifty title sequences for such celebrated films as The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), Vertigo (1958), Exodus (1960), Grand Prix (1966), and Cape Fear (1991).

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