Posts Tagged “Roger Bennett”
KQED Radio interviews Johnny Mathis about recording Kol Nidre along with Idelsohn Society co-founder Roger Bennett. Listen to it here.
The Black Sabbath exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum is closing later this month (March 22nd). Now is your last chance to see this amazing exhibit. More info on how to visit is here…
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May 12–September 5, 2010 To create this multisensory exhibition, guest curators Roger Bennett and Josh Kun embarked on a far-reaching journey, scouring the country to collect thousands of vinyl LPs from attics, garage sales, and dusty archives. Pieced together, these scratched, once loved, and now forgotten audio gems tell a vibrant tale: the story of …
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On the 1961 album Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos, an all-star lineup of New York jazz musicians mashed up Jewish and Latin styles under the fake name Juan Calle & His Latin Lantzmen. Before a tribute concert this weekend at Lincoln Center, composer and pianist Arturo O’Farrill and music historian Roger Bennett join us to …
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Roger Bennett and Josh Kun are the authors of “And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost.”
Our book is the product of five years of obsessively collecting vinyl from across the country — a work of passion that …
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Growing up in Liverpool, England, in the 1980s, Roger Bennett was not a traditional Jew. In his adolescence he was as likely to be found on Saturday mornings at soccer games as at synagogue, and had a bar mitzvah immediately followed by a punk-rock theme party.
But while he was being introduced to A Flock …
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