Plug: Girls In Trouble concert, tomorrow (Tuesday)
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lethargic_manI'm just back from almost a week offline, constituting introducing ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aviva_m to Cambridge, and attending Limmud Fest (so I've only skimmed LJ since). Limmud Fest was educational, informative and entertaining (spot the ex-BBC employee :o)), and the Masorti services I organised went extremely smoothly (including my leyning the longest single aliyah in the Torah, and aviva_m (and someone else) leyning for the first time ever.
If I can be bothered, and have time, to type my session notes up, I'll blog them here, but otherwise can I put a plug in here for Girls in Trouble and either DeLeon or the Shuk, I forget which, in concert at the Macbeth in Shoreditch tomorrow (Tuesday) (and, I believe, Stockholm on Thursday).
Girls in Trouble is Alicia Jo Rabin's vehicle for her personal musical midrashim about the darker stories about women in the Bible. For example, in "Mountain" she tells the story of Jephthah's daughter from the daughter's perspective, making it come across as a female equivalent of the Binding of Isaac. (You can hear it at the abovelinked MySpace site.) I also recommend (if you can't make it to the concert, or would like to see what you might be letting yourself in for) watching her live version of "Hunter/The Bee Lays Her Honey", where she uses a little box of tricks to build up a complex layering of violin parts all by herself; the result is most impressive.
aviva_m to Cambridge, and attending Limmud Fest (so I've only skimmed LJ since). Limmud Fest was educational, informative and entertaining (spot the ex-BBC employee :o)), and the Masorti services I organised went extremely smoothly (including my leyning the longest single aliyah in the Torah, and aviva_m (and someone else) leyning for the first time ever.If I can be bothered, and have time, to type my session notes up, I'll blog them here, but otherwise can I put a plug in here for Girls in Trouble and either DeLeon or the Shuk, I forget which, in concert at the Macbeth in Shoreditch tomorrow (Tuesday) (and, I believe, Stockholm on Thursday).
Girls in Trouble is Alicia Jo Rabin's vehicle for her personal musical midrashim about the darker stories about women in the Bible. For example, in "Mountain" she tells the story of Jephthah's daughter from the daughter's perspective, making it come across as a female equivalent of the Binding of Isaac. (You can hear it at the abovelinked MySpace site.) I also recommend (if you can't make it to the concert, or would like to see what you might be letting yourself in for) watching her live version of "Hunter/The Bee Lays Her Honey", where she uses a little box of tricks to build up a complex layering of violin parts all by herself; the result is most impressive.
