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...wife lives without joy, blessing and good," says the Talmud. Amram Blau might also add: "But be careful of the wife you pick." A 65-year-old widowed Reb, or teacher, and 50 times a grandfather, Blau has been forced to surrender leadership of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox sect known as the Neturei Karta (Guardians of the City) for the scandal and sin of marrying shy, devout Ruth Ben-David, 45, who is not only a divorced woman but a convert from Catholicism as well...
DIRECTIONS '65 (ABC, 1-2 p.m.). The Final Ingredient, an opera celebrating Passover, composed by David Amram and Arnold Weinstein...
...David Amram has composed some most helpful snatches of music for woodwind and plucked double-bass; and the lighting and costumes cannot be faulted...
...Orthodox Jews of Mea She'arim were dumfounded with outrage-and none more than a lean, hawk-eyed man who has a fair claim to the title of the world's most orthodox Orthodox Jew. On occasion, he even shows up in sackcloth and ashes. He is Amram Blau, 63, leader of a fanatical Mea She'arim sect called the Neturei Karta (guardians of the city). Sabbath elapsed. Then Blau exhorted his disciples, in broad-brimmed black hats, to loose volleys of stones, pelting city buses, breaking windows and injuring some cops. Sixteen of his zealots...
...present the Marlboro trio in a concert at Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. The young string ensemble will perform Schumann's Trio in F Major; Martinu's Five Pieces for Trio (1931): Faure's Trio, Op. 120; and "Dirge and Variations," written for the Marlboro Trio by David Amram...