{"id":2019,"date":"2010-09-08T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T11:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2012-03-26T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T21:49:25","slug":"portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/08\/portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"PORTRAITS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two-thirds of the art <\/strong><\/span>in my house is by Irwin Weinberger,<\/a> Yiddishe Cup’s singer.\u00a0 Irwin is also a painter and middle-school art teacher.<\/p>\n

He did a portrait of my kids 19 years ago.\u00a0 I thought the kids — those pipsqueaks — were cute.\u00a0 But their pipsqueak phase dragged on for years; I would stare at that painting and say, “Grow up already!”\u00a0 Schlepping kids crosstown to gymnastics meets was not fun.\u00a0 Schlepping the youngest child to an 8 a.m. hockey game in Parma Heights was not fun.\u00a0 Sitting through my daughter’s swim meets was not entirely pleasant.\u00a0 (The diving part was pleasant, but the swimming races — which she had nothing to do with — weren’t fun.)<\/p>\n

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As it turned out,<\/strong><\/span> the whole thing — childrearing — lasted about two weeks.<\/p>\n

Yiddishe Cup has been in existence 21 years, and that, too, has felt like two weeks. One day — back in 1989 — we were playing a Cleveland Heights street fair, and the next day– 21 years later– we were playing a Cleveland Heights street fair.*\u00a0 What’s with that?<\/p>\n

We — the Yiddishe Cup musicians — enjoy the short drive to work.\u00a0 We are in our own backyard, kind of \u00a0like the working musicians in Las Vegas or Branson, Mo.\u00a0 The downside to playing Cleveland a lot is everybody has heard us a million times.<\/p>\n

Make it new.\u00a0 Or go nuts.<\/p>\n

The newest Yiddishe Cup recruit, our drummer, has been with us 12 years.\u00a0 We have new music, but not new guys.<\/p>\n

I rarely put the musicians’ names front and center. \u00a0It’s all about Team Yiddishe Cup.\u00a0 What if a Yiddishe Cup “star” leaves? That would mess up the band’s publicity.<\/p>\n

The band’s PR photos <\/strong><\/span>are like my family portrait.\u00a0 Same guys, basically.\u00a0 Why change the photos?\u00a0 We look the same as we did in the 1990s.\u00a0 I <\/em>think so.\u00a0 It’s the same guys.<\/p>\n

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Yiddishe Cup, 1998. An outtake. The arrow in Irwin's head messed up this shot. (Photo by Charles J. Mintz)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n* Footnote: Yiddishe Cup did not play a Cleveland Heights street fair in 2010. However, the band did play Parade the Circle in University Circle — close to, but not in, Cleveland Heights. And last year the band played for the outdoor movie\/concert night at Coventry (Cleveland Heights).<\/small><\/p>\n

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2 of 2 posts for 9\/8\/10<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

L’shana tovah. (Happy New Year.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Y<\/span>iddishe Cup is at Fairmount Temple\u00a0 Wed. Sept 29 and Park Synagogue Thurs. Sept. 30 for Simchat Torah.\u00a0 Cleveland.
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