{"id":2707,"date":"2010-12-03T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2023-12-28T16:47:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T21:47:17","slug":"halls-of-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/03\/halls-of-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"MIRROR IMAGES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Yiddishe Cup occasionally<\/strong><\/span> plays mirrored halls.<\/p>\n<p>Take La Vera.\u00a0 Or Casa di Borally.\u00a0 Or La Malfa (no mirrors but still heavy Italian).<\/p>\n<p>Our latest mirrored hall gig was Armenian.\u00a0 Yiddishe Cup knows two Armenian tunes, which gets us through the night. We mix them with klezmer, jazz and pop.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not bad on &#8220;Cold Duck Time&#8221; by Eddie Harris.\u00a0 Not good either.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I thought there were <\/strong><\/span>300 people at the La Vera gig, because of the mirrors.\u00a0 There were about 150 people.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/back-to-buffet-best-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/back-to-buffet-best-268x300.jpg 268w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/back-to-buffet-best.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A guest asked if<\/span> Yiddishe Cup is available July 11, 2011, for his daughter&#8217;s wedding at La Malfa. \u00a0Yes, La Coppa Yiddishe is available, and call soon. \u00a0July 11 is &#8220;tomorrow&#8221; in the band biz.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The premier mirrored hall<\/strong><\/span> in Ohio is the Hall of Mirrors at the Hilton Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati. \u00a0That mirrored hall, built in 1931, is modeled after the Palace of Versailles.<\/p>\n<p>Yiddishe Cup played a wedding in the Cincy hall for the great-grandchild of Arnold Schoenberg. \u00a0A guest even sang a medley of Schoenberg art songs midway through the reception.\u00a0 That was a bigger party-killer than <em>benching <\/em>(post-meal prayers).<\/p>\n<p>Yiddishe Cup is playing a Cincy wedding tomorrow night at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. We&#8217;ve never played there. \u00a0\u00a0Mirror situation<em>, per favore<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Illustration by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstuff.com\">Ralph Solonitz.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yiddishe Cup occasionally plays mirrored halls. Take La Vera.\u00a0 Or Casa di Borally.\u00a0 Or La Malfa (no mirrors but still heavy Italian). Our latest mirrored hall gig was Armenian.\u00a0 Yiddishe Cup knows two Armenian tunes, which gets us through the night. We mix them with klezmer, jazz and pop. I&#8217;m not bad on &#8220;Cold Duck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","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=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31284,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/31284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}