![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He explained up front that the period from 1915 to 1955 was a time when popular music was piano-oriented pianos being the instrument of home entertainment before the era of radios and TVs. However, Hindin was to take us on a trip further back in time, to the waning days of Vaudeville and the time of mass Jewish immigration (1890-1920).Ī 1924 recording of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra set the stage for a deep dive into Hindin’s subject. Since Dylan is a Jew, I expected he would be featured in some way during this presentation. ![]() When one brings up “the great American Songbook” it immediately brings to my mind what Dylan’s exploration of that genre was labeled when he came out with his triumvirate of albums, Shadows in the Night (2015-ten songs made famous by Frank Sinatra), Fallen Angels (2016) and Triplicate (2017). For anyone interested in the cultural evolution of music, it was a fascinating delve into how traditional Jewish melodies worked their way into America’s popular music culture. In this case it was brought to us by the Mordechai Kaplan Fund, RBC Wealth Management and North Shore Band. The program was at Temple Israel where the pianist, Wisconsin native and New Yorker Bill Hindin performed and presented “The Great Jewish American Songbook.” This is a show he’s presented numerous times around the U.S. So I went solo to join an audience of about 70 people. The friends I invited to accompany me all declined so as not to miss one minute of sunlight before cold temperatures set in. So what did I do? Attended an afternoon concert, of course. 15 was a perfect fall day – temps in the low 60s, blue sky, sunshine spotlighting leaf colors at their peak. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger-and their true enemy-closer.Sunday, Oct. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter-the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart.ġ947. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything-beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses-but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.ġ940. “The reigning queen of historical fiction” - Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue ![]()
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