{"id":41882,"date":"2023-07-21T01:45:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T08:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=41882"},"modified":"2023-07-20T15:37:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T22:37:13","slug":"empowered-by-piano-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2023\/07\/21\/empowered-by-piano-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowered by piano, song"},"content":{"rendered":"

From left to right: Leslie Rosen, Toby Rubin, Tammy Klass and Marilyn Berger dance to the music of singer and pianist Miriam Davidson. (photo from JSA)<\/em><\/p>\n

The last session of the Jewish Seniors Alliance-Snider Foundation Empowerment 2022-23 season was held on June 26 at Beth Tikvah Synagogue in Richmond. It featured Miriam Davidson playing and singing show tunes, and people joined in and even danced.<\/p>\n

The event was co-sponsored by JSA, Kehila Society\u2019s Seniors Program and Beth Tikvah. Attendees were treated to a BBQ lunch of hamburgers, hot dogs and veggie dogs with all the trimmings. More than 60 seniors from around the Lower Mainland attended.<\/p>\n

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Miriam Davidson (photo from JSA)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The crowd was welcomed by Toby Rubin, the coordinator of the Kehila program. She explained that Lester Soo, the scheduled entertainer, was unable to perform, but that Davidson, a pianist and vocalist, was able to step in.<\/p>\n

Davidson began with some songs from The Sound of Music<\/em> that were very familiar to the audience, and she encouraged everyone to sing along. The program included such tunes as \u201cAin\u2019t Misbehavin\u2019,\u201d \u201cFly Me to the Moon\u201d and \u201cOnly a Paper Moon.\u201d She played \u201cMemory\u201d from the musical Cats and a request for Abba\u2019s \u201cDancing Queen\u201d had the audience swaying and waving their arms in time to the music. There was even a bit of dancing.<\/p>\n

The concert ended with \u201cHere Comes the Sun\u201d by the Beatles.<\/p>\n

The afternoon wrapped up with greetings from Tammi Belfer, president of the JSA, and a thank you to Davidson, who was wonderful.<\/p>\n

Shanie Levin<\/strong> is a Jewish Seniors Alliance Life Governor. She is also on the editorial committee of <\/em>Senior Line magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From left to right: Leslie Rosen, Toby Rubin, Tammy Klass and Marilyn Berger dance to the music of singer and pianist Miriam Davidson. (photo from JSA) The last session of the Jewish Seniors Alliance-Snider Foundation Empowerment 2022-23 season was held on June 26 at Beth Tikvah Synagogue in Richmond. It featured Miriam Davidson playing and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[20035,2406,614,3231,22515,8521],"class_list":["post-41882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-empowerment-series","tag-jewish-seniors-alliance","tag-jsa","tag-kehila-society","tag-miriam-davidson","tag-piano"],"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\/41882","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=41882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}