I always loved songs. As a kid, I was around for the birth of rock and roll; the first one of my friends to get a mini transistor radio, for under the pillow listening to the Big Bopper while pretending to be asleep. On shabbes afternoon, when the coast was clear, I’d turn on WQXR, […]
Thomas Schwartz was born in Hungary, before World War Two. He spent his adolescent years in Bergen Belsen. After liberation, he spent his early manhood roaming around the Continent. Tommy, a polyglot, felt at home in any country after just a few weeks, having already learned the local language. Possessing a beautiful natural tenor, he […]
LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA: World-renowned tenor, Cantor Jack Ben-Zion Mendelson will be performing his one-man show, The Cantor’s Couch (book by Mark Bieler), a journey through his real life stories growing up in the 1950’s in Borough Park, Brooklyn. The son of a loving deli owner and an overbearing mother, Cantor Mendelson paints a picture of a bygone […]
