CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK After a lengthy recovery, the artist comes back with the most vigorous work he’s made: “It took me a really long time to understand what had happened to me.” By Max Lakin The New York Times July 31, 2022 DETROIT — During the three months last year that the artist José Parlá was in a medically … Read More
Author: Gail Prensky
Opinion — How Cuba’s investment in writers and artists came back to haunt its regime
By Carlos Manuel Álvarez The Washington Post November 11, 2022 Carlos Manuel Álvarez is a Cuban author and journalist. In Cuba, hundreds of innocent people are in prison today because they dared to demand freedom a year ago. The “lucky” ones — including Washington Post Opinions contributor Abraham Jiménez Enoa and art historian Carolina Barrero, the subjects of … Read More
Founder of Violins of Hope Amnon Weinstein Receives French Legion of Honor
CLASSICAL MUSIC NEWS The Tel Aviv luthier has restored the violins of around 120 Holocaust victims since the late 1980s June 2, 2022 The respected Tel Aviv luthier Amnon Weinstein, who repairs and restores violins that were damaged during the Holocaust, has received one of France’s highest honors for his work. Eric Danon, the French ambassador … Read More
#Youth4Disarmament launches Pitching Peace Youth Music Challenge
Calling Global Youth! Check this out…Join the competition. Details below Lijiang Sun’s winning entry for the Disarmament Poster for Peace Contest in 2016 has inspired the design for the Pitching Peace Youth Music Challenge. 24 May 2022 – 12 August 2022 On 24 May 2018, the United Nations Secretary-General published his Agenda for Disarmament, aiming to set our … Read More
Today our friends and participating artists on The Jüdische Kulturbund Project, Namini Panchala with Ajith Kumarasiri, shared a protest song against the government in Sri Lanka. English Translation: Let’s embrace Let’s kiss Let’s celebrate love We are poor We are hungry We may soon end up six feet under We all have a common enemy The army … Read More
What it’s like to be a Russian artist now
‘You breathe the polluted air’: A dancer, director and conductor reflect on what Putin’s funding, and his war, mean for the arts in Russia By Sarah L. KaufmanApril 1, 2022The Washington Post Olga Smirnova and Vladislav Lantratov perform the ballet “Onegin” at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 2013. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters) A couple of months ago, … Read More
‘Concert between explosions’ provides respite in Kharkiv subway shelter
By Meryl Kornfield and Adela Suliman March 27, 2022 The Washington Post Musicians play for people staying in a subway station used as a bomb shelter in Kharkiv on March 26. (AFP/Getty Images) In a Ukrainian city hit hard by Russia’s invasion, five musicians brought their instruments underground — seeking to drown out the thunderous explosions with their … Read More
Before leaving her apartment in Kyev she plays the piano for the last time…
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Newsletter-Winter 2022
BULLETS TO BOOKS Jok Talks in America Jok Abraham Thon and Gail Prensky standing in front of the Gift of Luxembourg. The Luxembourg government bought and donated it to the United Nations in 1988. The sculpture is a memorial for John Lennon and a symbol against violence and war. Jok and Bullets to Books Win Youth Peace … Read More
A Ukrainian girl sang ‘Let It Go’ in a Kyiv bunker. She just performed for thousands in Poland.
By Annabelle Timsit March 22, 2021 The Washington Post Amelia Anisovych, 7, a refugee from Ukraine, sings the Ukrainian national anthem at a fundraising concert in Lodz, Poland, on March 20. (Marian Zubrzycki/AP) A 7-year-old girl who sang “Let It Go” from the Disney movie “Frozen” inside a bomb shelter in Kyiv is now singing for a different … Read More