Helix Center Winter Roundtables

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 22, 2015 Announcements, Art, Movies, Music, Science News

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Music to Whose Ears II: Embodied Cognition

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 12, 2015 Music

Click Here to Read: Music to Whose Ears II: Embodied Cognition with Nacho Arimany, Edgar Choueiri, Vijay Iyer, Marina Korsakova-Kreyn, Tristan Perich, at the Helix Center on Saturday, January 24, 2015.

Letters to Afar

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 12, 2015 Movies, Music

Click Here to Read: LETTERS TO AFAR: OCT 22, 2014 – MAR 22, 2015, at the Museum of the City of New York, Co-presented by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

The Helix Center Winter 2015 Roundtables

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 6, 2015 Art, Music

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The Helix Center Winter 2015 Roundtables.

Start 2015 Right: January at YIVO!

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 4, 2015 Announcements, Music, Photography, Poetry

Start 2015 right –
at the 4th Annual Winter Program Keynote!

Poets as Smugglers: Sutzkever, Kaczerginski, and How the Remnants of the YIVO Archive Reached New York
Monday, January 5 | 6:30pm | Location: YIVO Institute
YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization Keynote Address

YIVO’s Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar David Fishman tells the dramatic story of how poets Kaczerginski and Sutzkever rescued YIVO’s treasures from the Vilnius Jewish Continue reading Start 2015 Right: January at YIVO!

New albums from saxophonists Dayna Stephens and Walter Smith III

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 27, 2014 Music

Click Here to Read: New albums from saxophonists Dayna Stephens and Walter Smith III By Hiram Lee on the World Socialist Web Site on December 27, 2014.

Dayna Stephens [Photo by Christopher Drukker]

News and Events from YIVO

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 21, 2014 Announcements, Books, Music, Poetry

Registration still open for YIVO Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization — Deadline Extended Through December 31!

Poets as Smugglers: Sutzkever, Kaczerginski, and How the Remnants of the YIVO Archive Reached New York

Monday, January 5 | 6:30pm | Location: YIVO Institute YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization Keynote Address Continue reading News and Events from YIVO

Entering its third decade, the Klezmatics have made klezmer a household sound

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 18, 2014 Music

Click Here to Read: Entering its third decade, the Klezmatics have made klezmer a household sound By Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel on December 17, 2014.

Tracing Rebel Roots of a Guthrie Hanukkah Song

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 16, 2014 Guthrie Centenary, Music

Click Here to Read: Tracing Rebel Roots of a Guthrie Hanukkah Song By J.J. Goldberg on the Forward Mobile website on December 16, 2014..

Click Here to Read: The Woody Guthrie Centenary Category on this website

British and German youth orchestras celebrate 100 years of jazz

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 12, 2014 Music

Click Here to Read: British and German youth orchestras celebrate 100 years of jazz By Barbara Slaughter on the World Socialist Web Site on December 11, 2014.

National Youth Jazz Orchestra of the UK and the Youth Jazz Orchestra of Germany performing