Last week in Toronto (1996), arts journalists were given an exclusive first peek at four stage numbers from Ragtime, the musical-in-progress that Livent Inc. is developing from the best-selling 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow. Given that the show isn’t set to open at North York’s Ford Center until next January, the pieces seemed surprisingly polished.…
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RebbeSoul’s music is soulful, spiritual
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The first time you hear RebbeSoul will be a revelation; at least it was for me. Within minutes of sliding his new album into the CD player, I realized that here was a type of contemporary Jewish music I had rarely heard before. Melodious and musically rich, Change the World With A Sound does more…
Moonlight, Romance & Jewish Songwriters
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“There may be trouble ahead,” begins Irving Berlin’s famed 1936 song, Let’s Face the Music and Dance, and if you are a fan of the classic American songbook and singers, you can easily hear Fred Astaire singing that line in your head. The song is remarkable, according to author David Lehman, because it puts all…
