{"id":17902,"date":"2014-03-19T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=17902"},"modified":"2014-03-19T08:59:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T12:59:01","slug":"save-the-datethe-challah-fame-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/19\/save-the-datethe-challah-fame-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"SAVE THE DATE:
THE CHALLAH FAME FUNDRAISER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Save the<\/span><\/strong> date: August 31, Cleveland.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re having a costume ball at The Challah Fame fundraiser.\u00a0 We’ll have styling stations with plenty of gear in case you forget to dress right; we’ll have Greek fishermen\u2019s caps, Tevye vests, Russian cavalry boots and wash-off Yiddish tattoos.<\/p>\n

We’re blocking off three blocks on Euclid Avenue for bowling, pierogis, borscht, schnitzel, herring, slivovits and brewskis.\u00a0 The theme is The Other, as in Jews, Slavs, Gypsies and Martians.\u00a0 IDs not necessary.<\/p>\n

Live music,<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 of course.\u00a0 We’ve already booked Beyond the Pale and Sharon, Lois, and Bram.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll march up Euclid Avenue to East 17th Street, where the Alpine Village used to be, and play Austrian oom-pah music. [Mickey Katz played at the Alpine during the war.\u00a0 The club’s owner, Herman Pirchner (an Austrian), wanted to show he wasn’t pro-Nazi.]<\/p>\n

Robert Gates, former secretary of defense, will lecture on “The Klezmer CDs We Found at Bin Laden’s Lair and What That Meant.”\u00a0 Other lecturers are the usual suspects: Wex, Sokolow, Horowitz, Netsky.\u00a0 Also, a Ladino lecture by Septimo Rodriguez:\u00a0 \u201cSoluciones para pequena empresas Ladinas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, a<\/strong><\/span> motorcycle ride out to the Popcorn Shop in Chagrin Falls, led by Mayor Merle Gorden of Beachwood.\u00a0 (We’ll have three-wheel motorcycles for rent.)<\/p>\n

Save the date: August 31.<\/p>\n

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SIDE B<\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post above is so stupid it deserves another . . .<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

BLOW HARD<\/big> <\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I sometimes<\/strong><\/span> get a spiritual lift from playing clarinet. This might happen during a pop tune like \u201cHallelujah,\u201d or an old Naftule Brandwein klez number, or even a scale. I never know.<\/p>\n

Young musicians ask me, \u201cI see you put a lot of heart into your music. Where\u2019s that coming from? How do you do that?”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I have<\/strong><\/span> no answer. I say, \u201cBlow hard. Don’t worry about it. Blow hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blowhard? <\/strong><\/span>
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Save the date: August 31, Cleveland. We\u2019re having a costume ball at The Challah Fame fundraiser.\u00a0 We’ll have styling stations with plenty of gear in case you forget to dress right; we’ll have Greek fishermen\u2019s caps, Tevye vests, Russian cavalry boots and wash-off Yiddish tattoos. We’re blocking off three blocks on Euclid Avenue for bowling, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezfiction","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17902"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19267,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17902\/revisions\/19267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}