HeyJaredRobin Rubenstein
Pianist, writer, time waster, optimist despite it all...and there's a lot of it
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“Talkin’ about my generation” (opens the original)
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Of late I’ve been sharing mental, musical and spiritual space with two multi-talented maltreated women of the piano. Hazel Scott and Ray Lev were mauled by McCarthyism in the 1950’s and left bleeding. In Lev’s case, after being blacklisted, she was pretty much friendless and stripped of her career. Hazel Scott was able to make a new life in Paris. Both women re-entered public life—were enabled to re-enter public life—in the US of the late 60’s because of a seismic shift.<div class="subsc
Hazel Scott, wondrous woman of the piano (1920-1981) (opens the original)
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Lost Women of the Piano (opens the original)
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Telling tales (opens the original)
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The world is abuzz with the Odyssey. What isn’t there in the epic story? Powerful cunning hero, enduring love, perilous journey, monsters, sirens, sorcery, Man vs the elements, Man vs his own nature. And yet… As Madeline Miller brilliantly reshapes the old tale in “Circe”, what there isn’t in the epic story is Woman holding center stage. Woman not in Man’s shadow, not reflected or refracted by his shining light.We are all in the business of story telling. All of us are shaped by stories long for
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