Word: lebedeff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three conductors-Zalmen Motek, Evan Harlan and Timothy Steele-the orchestra pulls off the true to their style Klezmer songs and wildly outrageous parodies of Yiddish familiars with grace and ease. Particularly spectacular is Composer Mlotek's "Geography Song," a parody of a 1947 folk song by Aaron Lebedeff. Here Mlotek and musical adapter Hankus Wetsky are successful where Brustein fails; they masterfully adapt the familiar melodies and lyrical stories which are so much a part of Yiddish culture into vibrant and enjoyable pieces which augment and respectfully recognize their source. The music of "Shlemiel the First" is as thoughtful...
...courts are being prodded to legitimize a sea change in societal norms that legislators have refused to recognize. One day after the Steffan decision, a New York court ordered the state university's law school in Buffalo to halt campus interviews by military recruiters, because, said Judge Diane Lebedeff, "there is no dispute the military currently engages in sexual-orientation discrimination in its employment practices." With two such clear strikes against the Pentagon's practices, it is only a matter of time before the Supreme Court takes up the issue...