The Palo Alto resident, in town and staying at the Warwick Hotel recently while teaching sold-out knife skills classes at places like the 92nd Street Y, says he’s fielded every imaginable question from beginning as well as expert cooks.
Modern Indian Cooking with chef Vikas Khanna of Purnima restaurant is next in the series on February 7.
Jewish Weeksurveys the iconic Israeli photojournalist David Rubinger’s exhibit at the Y.
Tucked away in a corner gallery on the first floor of New York’s 92nd Street Y is an exhibition of photographs by photojournalist David Rubinger, curated by Robert Gilson, director of the Y’s School of the Arts. The show spans Rubinger’s long career and begins with his iconic image of Israelis perched on a British tank shortly after the declaration of the State of Israel. Other images show waves of immigrants from as near to Israel as Yemen and from as far away as the Soviet Union living in poverty and squalor, awaiting happiness in the possibility of living in a free nation for the Jews. The misery of war is shown on both the Arab and Jewish sides — a precious Palestinian girl sees her home destroyed; a mother clutches her children at Kibbutz Gadot after it had been bombed in 1967.
Stephen Holden of the New York Times has a great review for conductor, pianist and music-theater scholar Rob Fisher’s recent tribute to Leonard Bernstein.
That Mr. Fisher could create such a rich musical portrait using only seven musicians, including the singers, was a tribute to his understanding of the scores and his skill at paring down full-bodied orchestral arrangements to a skeletal core. The “Mambo,” from “West Side Story,” with which the Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the populous Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra recently blew the roof off Carnegie Hall, lost little in Mr. Fisher’s reduction to the percussive essentials.
