My own piece on Wolf appeared in Jewish Week this weekend but isn't on the
website, so I take the liberty of appending it here.
George (notorious taker of liberties . . . and naps) Robinson
Alas, where is human nature so
weak as in a bookstore?
-Henry Ward Beecher
By George Robinson
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To: World music from a Jewish slant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: Musicians - how useful is Alexander Technique? Feldenkrais?
Would someone be kind enough to explain alexander and feldenkrais to the
uninitiated?
Lorele
George Robinson wrote:
I've done
George Robinson wrote:
I've done Alexander technique, but I'm not an instrumentalist so I'm
not sure how useful my experience would be. I found it enormously
helpful in several ways (not the least of them being that it brought
my height from 5-7-1/4 to 5-8). I'm considering acupuncture
Oooh, this man is evil.
I like that.
George ("a pun is the lowest form of humor,
especially is someone beats you to it" -- Oscar Levant) Robinson
Alas, where is human nature so weak as in a
bookstore?-Henry Ward Beecher
- Original Message -
From:
Jacob and Nancy Bloom
Can we consider this to be . . . wait for it, wait for it . . .
A cimbolic victory.
A drum roll please.
George (No Pun Left Behind) Robinson
Alas, where is human nature so
weak as in a bookstore?
-Henry Ward Beecher
- Original Message -
From: Lori Cahan-Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
There was a profile in the New Yorker last year. You will need to speak to
musicians who have worked with him, since he does not deign to speak to mere
journalists (except for the New Yorker, of course).
George (mere journalist) Robinson
Alas, where is human nature so
weak as in a bookstore?
Khaverim --
It's that time of year -- George is beginning work on the fall arts preview
for Jewish Week.
If you have an event coming up in the New York area, anytime between
September 5 and the end of the year, let me know and I'll try to include it.
Many thanks,
g
Alas, where is human nature
Khaverim --
Yes, there are two of them -- I had the film-related page up and running
a few days ago and now, just in time for Passover, my Jewish page is up.
In fact, it has its very own domain name.
You can find it at:
www.EssentialJudaism.com
Needless to say, it includes an effusive plug for
Wasn't that my uncle Shmuel? It scans better.
George (I didn't have an Uncle Shmuel, but that was my grandfather's name)
Robinson
To announce that there must be no criticism
of the president, or that we are to stand by
the president, right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is
You mean like Cole Porterovsky?
g
To announce that there must be no criticism
of the president, or that we are to stand by
the president, right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public.
--Theodore Roosevelt
- Original Message -
Aha!
So you didn't want to wish all of us a happy
Pesakh!
See who remembers you at Christmas Time,
Lori.
An outraged George Robinson (not to be confused
with the inraged one)
"To announce that there must be no criticismof the president, or
that we are to stand by the president,
Even though it was pronounced Co-en, he was as
Irish as the Blarney Stone (one of my favorite chains of bars).
g
"To announce that there must be no criticismof the president, or
that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally
In fact, in the early days of his career, Berlin wrote in all the various
obnoxious dialect genres that Tin Pan Alley had to offer. If you read
Laurence Bergreen's bio, As Thousands Cheer, you will learn that he wrote
Italian (Sweet Marie, Make-a Ragtime-a Dance With Me) and Irish
(Alexander's
That's a good one.
Here's an Irving Berlin story that was really true, much repeated when Sir
Isaiah Berlin, also Jewish, died.
During WWII, Sir Winston Churchill was so delighted with Sir Isaiah's
reports on current events from the DC embassy that when someone told him
Berlin was back in London
Khaverim --
I'm starting work on a profile of Banai and Bracha who are playing a gig in
NYC in a couple of weeks. There is almost nothing on the 'Net about these
guys or Mashina, their one-time band (at least, not much in English, and my
Hebrew just isn't good enough), but I figure some of you
Uh-oh.
Seems to me we've been down this road already a few dozen times.
George (Put pigeons in coops, not holes!) Robinson
To announce that there must be no criticism
of the president, or that we are to stand by
the president, right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally
the
review will appear soon.
George Robinson
To announce that there must be no criticism
of the president, or that we are to stand by
the president, right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public.
--Theodore Roosevelt
- Original
You can lead a reader to water but you can't make him actually read.
g
To announce that there must be no criticism
of the president, or that we are to stand by
the president, right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public.
--Theodore
Maybe all our recordings/reviews should come with a Surgeon General's
Warning:
Caution: This music may not be what you are expecting or what you like. If
not, tough.
Of course, people still smoke cigarettes and drink while pregnant, so that
may not help either.
George (has never imbibed alcohol
Mazel tov!
(The first rock concert I ever saw was -- shudder -- Iron Butterfly.)
Rock on, sister.
George (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby) Robinson
When I play with my cat, who knows whether
she isn't amusing herself with me more than
I am with her?
--Michel de Montaigne
- Original Message
Does it matter that I've never been to Cleveland and never heard the
station?
Are you paying bribes to those of us who vote?
Answer the second question first.
George (For a price, amigo, always for a price) Robinson
When I play with my cat, who knows whether
she isn't amusing herself with me
Okay, I just voted for your band, Lori, but I gotta say, looking at the
photo of the two DJs, I wouldn't go into a room with them alone. Very
sinister-looking gents.
Are you sure you want to work with these guys?
George (a sinister-looking gent) Robinson
When I play with my cat, who knows
I have a feeling that any e-mail I get from a rock
station in Cleveland will be a step up the evolutionary scale from the spam I
regularly get that involves altering several parts of my body, having sex with
small creatures and acquiring a second mortgage on my home.
George (They're fine at
I don't disagree with anything you have written. I was referring pretty much
to the issue of period instruments and charts.
Of course Wynton knows all and sees and all and is happy to dictate to the
rest of the world what he knows and sees. But that's another story.
I would mildly challenge your
Maybe what we need then is a Jewish music
equivalent of the Historically Informed Performance school of classical music,
using period instruments, period tuning and period charts.
I'm not saying this to be disparaging;quite the
contrary, I find the HIP movement an endless source of
Khaverim --
Better late than never; my most recent record column can be found here:
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=7994
Of course, the fact that I filed it back in January -- no kidding -- isn't
entirely apparent.
George (Timeliness is a virtue) Robinson
It is the
Thought this might be of interest to someone on the list.
George Robinson
It is the duty of the patriotic citizen to
protect his country from its government.
-- Thomas Paine
- Original Message -
From: Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday
You know, I missed an obvious opportunity here. What I should have written
the first time was:
Yeah, Joel. When I wrote the column it was a new CD. That's how long my
editor sat on it.
Ah l'esprit d'escalier.
George (Too often on a staircase) Robinson
It is the duty of the patriotic citizen to
You're fired.
g
Stick around long enough and you'll see it all.That's why you shouldn't
stick around too long.--Earl Weaver
- Original Message -
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 9:33 AM
Subject: RE:Review
I did a feature on Rashanim and also on Shtreiml (both are playing Makor
this week), which can be found at:
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=8313
George (Me, too) Robinson
Alas, where is human nature so
weak as in a bookstore?
-Henry Ward Beecher
- Original Message
Khaverim --
If you haven't gotten in touch with me before about gigs in the NYC area
(including LI and Westchester) in the autumn and would like to be included
in the Jewish Week fall arts preview, time is running out. I have to file
the story September 1, which means I will start writing no
I highly recommend a story in today's Guardian,
which explains the whole mess quite convincingly. http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1027274,00.html
At the very least, until September 10 I will not be
opening any attachments.
George (detached) Robinson
Alas, where is human nature
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