{"id":32943,"date":"2019-07-12T03:50:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T10:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=32943"},"modified":"2019-07-10T14:08:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T21:08:17","slug":"series-finishes-on-high-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2019\/07\/12\/series-finishes-on-high-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Series finishes on high notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201cDueling pianists\u201d Lester Soo and Marilyn Glazer entertain at the last Empowerment Series session of the season. <em>(photo from JSA)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Co-sponsored by Jewish Seniors Alliance and the Kehila Society of Richmond, the fifth session of this season\u2019s JSA Snider Foundation Empowerment Series took place at Congregation Beth Tikvah. It more than lived up to the series\u2019 theme this year: \u201cRenewing and Reinventing Ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As usual, the program was preceded by a lunch provided by Stacey Kettleman. Beth Tikvah\u2019s Rabbi Adam Rubin did the Hamotzi and Toby Rubin, co-executive director of the Kehila Society, welcomed everyone. Among the 120 or so attendees were members of the Kehila Society and of JSA, as well as a group from L\u2019Chaim Adult Day Care.<\/p>\n<p>The entertainment portion of the program took place in the sanctuary, where Ken Levitt, president of JSA, spoke briefly and Rubin introduced the \u201cdueling pianists\u201d: Marilyn Glazer and Lester Soo, both of whom are accomplished musicians and piano instructors. The two have known each other for 35 years and have been playing duets for much of that time \u2013 one piano, four hands. At the Empowerment Series performance, they began with four Hungarian rhapsodies and continued with Mozart\u2019s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. They then played a number of Gershwin tunes and ended with Cole Porter.<\/p>\n<p>Rubin thanked the pianists for their wonderful performance, which was the last event of the 2018\/19 Empowerment Series. The series will begin again in the fall, with a new lineup of events presented by JSA with other seniors groups in the community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shanie Levin<\/strong> <em>is an executive board member of Jewish Seniors Alliance and on the editorial board of <\/em>Senior Line<em> magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDueling pianists\u201d Lester Soo and Marilyn Glazer entertain at the last Empowerment Series session of the season. (photo from JSA) Co-sponsored by Jewish Seniors Alliance and the Kehila Society of Richmond, the fifth session of this season\u2019s JSA Snider Foundation Empowerment Series took place at Congregation Beth Tikvah. It more than lived up to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[1976,2406,614,3231,8521,3714],"class_list":["post-32943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-beth-tikvah","tag-jewish-seniors-alliance","tag-jsa","tag-kehila-society","tag-piano","tag-seniors"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}