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A Stellar Video of My Song – by Christine Lavin
Published in the Times of Israel, June 2020: Local folk singer pens ode to female astronomer Sandy Cash combines her scientific and songwriting skills, earning recognition from fans around the globe by Jessica Steinberg See the original article here. See the video of “More Than Meets the Eye” here: As a folk singer, songwriter, science…
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Next to Normal – Aren’t We All?
As a musical-theater-loving American who moved to Israel in her mid-20s, my mind is a cultural time-capsule – full of the song-and-dance extravaganzas that made headlines back when I was a student. This nostalgic mindset isn’t mine alone – it also characterizes Israel’s many English-language theater groups, who regularly choose to mount productions of shows…
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A Musical Editorial
The “Times of Israel” recently picked up a song from “Voices From the Other Side” as a “top op” (op/ed) to share with their readers. This song is a dark satire about the State of Israel’s ongoing struggle with Western public opinion. Audio and video at the link: Song of Zion The struggle goes on.…
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A Review to Write Home About
When Norm Mast, co-host of The Back Porch radio show broadcasting out of Indiana, named my new disc one of the best of 2012, I thought I couldn’t be more pleased. But I am. He just wrote to tell me WHY. And I quote… Hi Sandy, Al Kniola forwarded your email to me re: our…
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Elsa Einstein Explains
A song from “Voices From the Other Side”. Video shot at the Tel Aviv Folk Club. I was inspired to write this song after reading Walter Isaacson’s wonderful biography of Albert Einstein. At one point, he describes how Albert and Elsa (his second wife) were visiting at the Pasadena laboratory of Prof. Edward Hubble (after…