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Oh How Good
It was a long day
By the time we got to the performing
I was bone tired exhausted
But hearing Daniel Rein's music ring out in the synagogue
To a full congregation
And seeing two women weeping
In the final moments of the Sacred Service
The way the audience was so still
You could feel it was something special
All those tricky rhythms and tempo changes and dynamic surges every other measure
Just the epic demanding sing of it
Totally worth it
Seeing Jez and Margo sitting in the same row as David and Katherine
Front and center
Found family with chosen family
Knowing Aaron was there too
Oh how good it was.
By the time we got to the performing
I was bone tired exhausted
But hearing Daniel Rein's music ring out in the synagogue
To a full congregation
And seeing two women weeping
In the final moments of the Sacred Service
The way the audience was so still
You could feel it was something special
All those tricky rhythms and tempo changes and dynamic surges every other measure
Just the epic demanding sing of it
Totally worth it
Seeing Jez and Margo sitting in the same row as David and Katherine
Front and center
Found family with chosen family
Knowing Aaron was there too
Oh how good it was.
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The Game of Life
Aaron was working on a presentation for school
The pedagogy of luck
At 3am I had an epiphany
It should be like The Game of Life!
So I made a graphic
And it was a little tricky
But I figured it out
It was nice to be able to help
To feel a part
Because often our worlds
Seem very far apart
But here we are
The actor and the philosopher
Playing the game
Together
The pedagogy of luck
At 3am I had an epiphany
It should be like The Game of Life!
So I made a graphic
And it was a little tricky
But I figured it out
It was nice to be able to help
To feel a part
Because often our worlds
Seem very far apart
But here we are
The actor and the philosopher
Playing the game
Together
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The Web
I was doing research on websites
And found a domain I wanted
But someone already owned it
I googled their name
And discovered someone else with the same name
Who recently, was the top fundraiser for the Leukemia Society
Thank you, stranger.
And found a domain I wanted
But someone already owned it
I googled their name
And discovered someone else with the same name
Who recently, was the top fundraiser for the Leukemia Society
Thank you, stranger.
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Central Synagogue, NYC
What a thrill
To stand in such a beautiful space
To be in awe of the architecture
The mosaics and the stained glass
To breathe in the history
And to have the privilege
To sing gorgeous music there.
To stand in such a beautiful space
To be in awe of the architecture
The mosaics and the stained glass
To breathe in the history
And to have the privilege
To sing gorgeous music there.
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Work, work, work.
The satisfaction of
Getting it done
Doing the thing
Shopping cooking prepping
Editing publishing organizing
Scheduling
Going to bed exhausted
But gratified
You did the thing.
Getting it done
Doing the thing
Shopping cooking prepping
Editing publishing organizing
Scheduling
Going to bed exhausted
But gratified
You did the thing.
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Fosse Fosse Fosse
(The Revival of Dancin' on Broadway)
The athleticism
The exuberance
The sexiness
The skin tight costumes
On taut athletic sensuous bodies
The sparkles
The music
The choreography
So very Fosse
But remixed, turned on its head
Made relevant for 2023
The joyful fun quirky sexy angular fluid unexpected satisfying thrill of it
The unapologetic pride of it
The way the dancers look like they’re having the time of their lives
The way they dance full-out for a full two and a half hours
With a myriad of costume changes
While singing their hearts out
Grips your heart your throat your soul
How do you do that 8 times a week?!
They must take hour long ice baths
The physio bill must be astronomical
You think about the collective number of years
These athlete performer superstars
Have spent in class
Twenty performers all in their twenties, maybe thirties if they’re lucky
Probably dancing since before they could walk
In class since three or five or seven
Say twenty years on average
Four hundred collective years of skill
On rapturous virtuosic display
What a thrill to see it.
The exuberance
The sexiness
The skin tight costumes
On taut athletic sensuous bodies
The sparkles
The music
The choreography
So very Fosse
But remixed, turned on its head
Made relevant for 2023
The joyful fun quirky sexy angular fluid unexpected satisfying thrill of it
The unapologetic pride of it
The way the dancers look like they’re having the time of their lives
The way they dance full-out for a full two and a half hours
With a myriad of costume changes
While singing their hearts out
Grips your heart your throat your soul
How do you do that 8 times a week?!
They must take hour long ice baths
The physio bill must be astronomical
You think about the collective number of years
These athlete performer superstars
Have spent in class
Twenty performers all in their twenties, maybe thirties if they’re lucky
Probably dancing since before they could walk
In class since three or five or seven
Say twenty years on average
Four hundred collective years of skill
On rapturous virtuosic display
What a thrill to see it.
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Leopoldstadt
I haven’t been inside a Broadway theatre
Since they lifted the vaccine mandate almost a year ago
It felt strange being in a crowded room
Full of unmasked people
(I wore my mask)
But the play
Oh the play
So beautifully realized
So devastating in its poetry
So heart wrenching in its reality
The story of families
The stories of family
A red photo album
Containing the images and
Names of people
Remembered and forgotten
Vienna in 1900
The constant interweaving of
Christianity and Judaism
Art and music and literature and science
A star of David on the Christmas tree
Hiding the matzoh
Vienna in 1924
The simple choreography of a shawl
Depicting the passage of time
Already a war has deprived a generation of their youth
Already a war has made the youth restless for joy
Vienna in 1938
Brutality
You cannot watch
You cannot look away
Vienna in 1955
Remembering
Reckoning
The haunting ghosts
The luck of where you ended up
What you escape
What you survive
How to go on after all of that
The strangeness of hearing St Patrick’s Day bagpipes from 8th Avenue
The collective silence of a thousand people holding their breath
The quiet sobs as the lights go to black
The privilege of story telling
The privilege of making art
The necessity of story telling
The necessity of art.
Since they lifted the vaccine mandate almost a year ago
It felt strange being in a crowded room
Full of unmasked people
(I wore my mask)
But the play
Oh the play
So beautifully realized
So devastating in its poetry
So heart wrenching in its reality
The story of families
The stories of family
A red photo album
Containing the images and
Names of people
Remembered and forgotten
Vienna in 1900
The constant interweaving of
Christianity and Judaism
Art and music and literature and science
A star of David on the Christmas tree
Hiding the matzoh
Vienna in 1924
The simple choreography of a shawl
Depicting the passage of time
Already a war has deprived a generation of their youth
Already a war has made the youth restless for joy
Vienna in 1938
Brutality
You cannot watch
You cannot look away
Vienna in 1955
Remembering
Reckoning
The haunting ghosts
The luck of where you ended up
What you escape
What you survive
How to go on after all of that
The strangeness of hearing St Patrick’s Day bagpipes from 8th Avenue
The collective silence of a thousand people holding their breath
The quiet sobs as the lights go to black
The privilege of story telling
The privilege of making art
The necessity of story telling
The necessity of art.
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Forward March
If I’m honest
Today felt hard
Emotionally exhausting
Even work was draining
But here I am
Keeping on
Keeping on.
Today felt hard
Emotionally exhausting
Even work was draining
But here I am
Keeping on
Keeping on.
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Conversation
That lights a fire
In your belly
That lights a fire
In your belly
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Make Your Own Party
The music of Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler
A celebration at 54 Below
Streamed into your living room in New Jersey
It is delightful
It is fun
It lifts your heart.
A celebration at 54 Below
Streamed into your living room in New Jersey
It is delightful
It is fun
It lifts your heart.