New Music from Alicia Svigals Kadya Molodovsky For her LABA project, Svigals wove together her original settings of poetry and Biblical texts in Yiddish, Hebrew and English to create a musical work that speaks of fertility, fear and longing; and the double-edged helix of inheritance across generations of women. Here are studio-recordings of two of
Nadav Lev on Life in the Children’s House Share Come see Lev perform a brand-new work inspired by the nightwathers of his youth on 1/25 at the 14th Street Y. I was raised on kibbutz in central Israel where I lived, until age 11, in a communal lodging area known as the beit ha’yeladim (children’s
On hunger, desire and rock and roll by Stephen Hazan Arnoff http://vevo.ly/eDnhbM Share Ruth lives in the age of Judges. “Joshua Judges Ruth,” the title of a 1992 Lyle Lovett album, aptly summarizes this age by reciting the New Testament order of the books preceding her story as a kind of ancient J’accuse. Early in
On Dylan’s Angelinas and Isaiah’s Fast by Stephen Hazan Arnoff There are two Angelinas in Bob Dylan’s musical canon. Each offers an approach to human ambition and humility in the face of divinity, and each remains partly hidden in broad daylight for many years. The first figure is the namesake of “Farewell, Angelina.”
A musical exploration of time slowing down By Amir Shpilman http://yourlisten.com/LABA/hedef When we fast we choose to deny our physical needs in order to focus on our spiritual ones. When we fast we crave oneness, oneness with ourselves and oneness with others. When we fast we hope that allowing ourselves to feel weaker will somehow
On Dylan’s “John Wesley Harding” and Fortune’s Wheel Stephen Hazan Arnoff Share John Wesley Harding may have been Bob Dylan’s most highly anticipated album ever. Released in 1967 at the end of twenty months of public silence that included a motorcycle crash, it was also the most stylistically unexpected work of Dylan’s career. The album featured
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On the Interesection of Food and Power in Dylan’s Desire and Genesis 27 By Stephen Hazan Arnoff Share Like desire itself, Bob Dylan’s album of the same name carries more than it can handle. Desire traverses climates of stifling heat as well as the cold of “pyramids all embedded in ice.” It pulses with violence
A new song about an old problem by Clare Burson http://yourlisten.com/LABA/share-share-share Share Not having read or thought much about the story of Jacob and Esau since I was 9 or 10 years old, re-reading the story now, as an adult and as a mother, I was struck most by what terrible parenting Isaac and Rebecca exhibit in
A look into the bleuprint of life on the road by Stephen Hazan Arnoff During the years that I banged out a modest living as a musician playing bars, frat houses, weddings, coffee houses, college lawns, the street, and summer festivals on the part of the bill when sometimes the cotton candy machines were not