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  • Jackie Robinson

    April 15, 2023

    On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He played first base. In  subsequent years he was the game's premier second baseman. The first black player in the major…

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  • Lera Auerbach’s Symphony #6 at Carnegie Hall (Wednesday, April 19, 2023) [by David Lehman]

    April 15, 2023

    Lera Auerbach's Symphony #6 at Carnegie Hall (Wednesday, April 19, 2023) "Vessels of Light" for violincello, chorus, and orchestra American premiere Presented by the American Society for Yad Vashem and Yad Vashem A Concert…

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  • Lullaby [Itzik Manger – Trans. by Lera Auerbach]

    April 14, 2023

    Itzik Manger (1901-1969) was widely considered as a poet with a unique style among his peers. In the 1930s, he moved to Warsaw and later to Paris, escaping Nazi persecution. After the war, he continued…

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  • Breakage and Repair [by Lera Auerbach]

    April 13, 2023

    In early 2020, Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remembrance Center commissioned me to write a large symphonic work for cello, choir and orchestra related to Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania during…

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  • La Biennale de la danse du Val de Marne 2023 #2: I got that hip hop feeling [By Tracy Danison]

    April 13, 2023

    “C Off the square. "C A R C A S S” by Marco Da Silva Ferreira. Photo © Jose Caldeira For La Biennale de danse du Val de Marne 2023 the energy- in-creativity exemplified…

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  • “deflated at dusk” by Rebecca Jessen [Introduced by Thomas Moody]

    April 12, 2023

    Rebecca Jessen is a Brisbane based poet whose first poetry collection Ask Me About the Future (UQP, 2020) was shortlisted for the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for…

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