"hk" wrote in message
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For a guy like you, who went to Amity Regional, the "artsy-craftsy" public
high school in New Haven County, you seem to have a closed mind on many of
the performing arts. Amity had great theater and music shows, Broadway
musical comedies, folk music festivals, all sorts of good stuff. Didn't
you go to any of them?

Hell, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe were married by Rabbi Robert
Goldberg at a synagogue in Woodbridge!* Just by osmosis you should be more
artsy-craftsy! :)



* Bet you didn't know that.

Nope. I was too busy working at a Mobil station after school, playing
soccer and stealing my parent's car for joyrides before I had my license.
Amity's "artsy-craftsy" culture did nothing for me.

But .... we grow. This weekend we are entertaining some guests from
Israel. My younger son's wife's brother, wife and three teenaged
daughters. Two of the daughters attend a music conservatory in Israel, one
for piano, the other vocals. They have performed at concerts throughout
Isrial and are in the States to perform later this month in Chicago.

Knowing they were coming, we had the baby grand tuned and ready. They
played and sang for us last night, doing some classical stuff and then a
bunch of contemporary American tunes. It was fun to listen to Frank
Sinatra ballads sung in Hebrew.

After their performance, we went upstairs to *my* junk laden music room.
I have a Roland keyboard hooked up to a Leslie speaker system, plus my
collection (still growing ) of guitars. We started jamming a bit, the
pianist on the keys, me on the g'tar and the rest singing. Old fashioned,
American rock and roll is a favorite in Israel I learned, and their family
knew every song and all the words. Quite a blast.

Eisboch