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Music: Oscar Peterson - Autumn Leaves (from FB)
A break from work. Oscar Peterson's fearsome rendition of Autumn Leaves. I've provided a transcription of the run that starts at 1:42 in...
Music: Turtle Island - A Night in Tunisia (from FB)
Not sure how I missed this back in the day! Here's Turtle Island, a string quartet that swings as hard as any traditional jazz quartet,...
A Missing Letter (from FB)
This is not what I intended to write about today (I hope I'll get to that later), but I gave a little presentation to the Shalem School...
Poem: A Walk With You (from FB)
A couple of years ago I found myself in Monterey for Shabbos. Walking back from a favorite spot by the water, I heard the first lines of...
On the Perils of Good Translation (from FB)
Nabokov, one of the greatest facilitators of exchange and communication between English and Russian literatures, despised translation....
First Year of Shalem; View: Ft. Funston (from FB)
Well. Impossible as it may sound, The Shalem School has just wrapped up its first year. Our students took their last exams today and...
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