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The Guiding Hand - The Barr Foundation Judaica Collection of Torah Pointers at The Breman
The Breman presents The Guiding Hand, an exhibition of Torah pointers,
ancient and contemporary instruments used during prayer that can be works of art, too.
Thru December 31, 2023
- Known as a “yad” in Hebrew, these objects created by diverse makers suggest
how central Torah reading is to the Jewish faith -
We are pleased to present an important and intriguing exhibition of Torah pointers, objects central to Jewish prayer and ritual. Known by their Hebrew name, yads, these ceremonial yet practical instruments are used to keep one’s place in the Torah scroll when reading from its densely hand-lettered Hebrew text.
The Guiding Hand: The Barr Foundation Judaica Collection of Torah Pointers is on view in The Breman’s newly updated Discovery Gallery from October 11 through December 2023.
For hundreds of years, Jews used simple tapered wooden sticks to point the way through the text of the Torah without touching the fragile handwritten animal-skin parchment surface. These pointers are called yads (literally the Hebrew word for hand יד) because they represent and stand in for the human hand that are often featured on the tip of the pointer. The pointers also helped readers avoid damaging even a single letter, which would risk rendering the sacred, communally owned scroll incomplete and unusable. Instead of pages, the Torah is written on one long piece of paper or parchment. When someone reads it, they roll the scroll from one end to the other using two rollers. This way, they can read the entire text without flipping pages like in a regular book. Yads are personal, individualized objects and have developed into a unique art form with great variety since there are no rules governing their form. The yads carefully selected for the Barr Foundation’s collection range in size from a few small to large.
The Guiding Hand includes more than 130 yads from multiple countries; by artists and craftspeople from many backgrounds and religions; and created in a vast array of media. The exhibit showcases the creativity of artists and craftspeople ancient to contemporary.
In honor of her late husband Jay Barr, Virginia resident Clay Barr began collecting Torah pointers nearly three decades ago. In addition to acquiring pointers that represent the full range of elaborate historic forms, she commissioned creative new yads from contemporary artists such as Tobi Kahn, Wendell Castle and Albert Paley. “I wanted to inspire artists and craftsmen to create new Judaica,” Clay Barr explains.
The Breman’s founding executive director Jane Leavey, who is serving as curator for the collection’s Atlanta showing, says that the exhibit “presents both an understanding of the Torah’s centrality in Judaism and the yad as an art form, both ancient and contemporary.”
“We are excited to host The Guiding Hand: The Barr Foundation Judaica Collection of Torah Pointers, for all that will teach Atlanta about this interesting aspect of Judaism,” Breman Executive Director Leslie Gordon said. “It is a perfect fit for The Breman, with our mission to share the richness of Jewish culture with guests of diverse backgrounds. It also extends our growing profile as a presenter of the visual and performing arts.”
While yads can still be simple wooden pointers, they have evolved into objects of silver with gold, jewels or ivory ornamentation. Others are now shaped from materials as diverse and unconventional as lucite, paper, graphite, porcelain, or glass. The contemporary yads on view at The Breman express each artist’s own style and creativity, but they reflect all the inspiration and reverence of the spiritual connection to the holy text. These build on the Barr Foundation collection’s historic yads, which suggest the full breadth of the global Jewish community, from India and Russia to the United States.
The Barr collection has been exhibited in New York, Miami, the foundation’s home city of Norfolk, Virginia, and other locations.
The Breman’s Discovery Gallery displays rotating exhibitions dedicated to the illumination of various aspects of Jewish culture and practices, such as holidays, customs, ceremonial objects, life cycles and more.
The Guiding Hand is presented with the support of the Robert G. and Ellen S. Gutenstein Family Foundation.
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Vignettes from the 25th Anniversary Celebration
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The highlight of the 25th Anniversary Celebration at The Breman Museum, March 27, 2022, was a series of performances featuring the stories of 'luminaries', people who are featured in the History with Chutzpah exhibition. These include: Cecil Alexander, z"l Asher Benator, z"l Perry Brickman Irving Goldstein, z"l Marvin Goldstein, z"l Evelyn Greenblatt, z"l Sam Greenblatt, z"l Ben Hirsch, z"l Dr....
Great things are Happening 112222
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Great Things are Happening at The Breman
Jews of Color in Early America with Author Laura Leibman
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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia presents Professor Laura Leibman speaking about her book - Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family. Beginning with two small portraits belonging to a Jewish heiress from New York, Professor Laura Leibman traced the family’s ancestors back to Bridgetown, Barbados in the 1700s. But instead of discovering an exclusive...
Chutzpah!
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It took chutzpah to launch Georgia’s only Jewish museum 25 years ago, so it’s only fitting that the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum will mark its silver anniversary with the appropriately titled exhibition History with Chutzpah. Opening September 19th, the exhibit will present an artifact-rich and interactive immersion into the colorful history of Jewish culture in Georgia and Alabama tha...
Jazzing Promo 30 secs 2
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Jazzing: Memoirs in Jazz Dance Inspired by Photographs in the Jazz Memoir exhibition SUNDAY AUG 8TH | 7:30 PM STREAM ACCESS AT THE COST OF A DONATION - RSVP HERE Streaming starts and 7:30PM and the video will be available until midnight. Individual streams are available through September 8th. The Breman in conjunction with the Balethnic Dance Company has commissioned a series of dances based on...
Why We Went: A Discussion on the June 18th 1964 Sit-In
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Join us to relive a landmark moment in the history of our nation's civil rights struggle when 16 rabbis were arrested in St. Augustine, FL, in 1964 in support of Martin Luther King's request to Jewish leaders to help bring attention to the plight of black people in America. Three of the rabbis Sy Dresner, Jerrold Goldstein, and Allen Secher discuss their experiences as part of a unique program ...
Women of Valor Chai Quilt
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A Story Quilt of Atlanta's Jewish Community This beautiful quilt honors eighteen women whose contributions to the Arts, Social Service, Politics and Social Justice in Georgia are remembered through the art of quilting. Each woman depicted on the quilt worked for the betterment of their communities and positively impacted the course of history. We would like to recognize Pat Pugrant, Volunteer P...
Atlanta Jewish History Talks: Old Jewish Neighborhoods of Atlanta
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Join Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University, Dr. Marni Davis, as she discusses her research on the old Jewish neighborhood of Atlanta. The class will be moderated by ethnographer of the Atlanta Sephardic community, Dan Maslia.
Live at The Breman: Jews and Jazz III
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Edutainment at its best. Dr. Gordon Vernick plays trumpet accompanied by vocalist Rita Graham and pianist Kevin Bales as Dr. Vernick tells stories about the significant roles Jews played in the Jazz world. Learn about the contributions of Jewish composers, producers, performers, writers, and entrepreneurs.
Atlanta Jewish History Talks: The Rise of Rich's
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Join the foremost historian on Rich’s department store, Jeff Clemmons, as he discusses the store that became synonymous with Atlanta and tied to the cultural, social, architectural, and philanthropical fabric of Atlanta. The class will be moderated by president of the Rich Foundation, Tom Asher.
Interview with Holocaust Survivor Werner Reich: Magic in the Death Camp
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May 26, 2019 Werner Reich was captured and imprisoned when he was 15 years old and spent time in three different concentration camps. While at Auschwitz, he saw a magician the Great Nivelli do a card trick, and this spawned a lifelong interest in magic. Werner joins magician, author, and entrepreneur Joshua Jay onstage for an interview about his unbelievable and harrowing time at Auschwitz, and...
Bearing Witness: Unforgettable Stories From The Holocaust featuring Henry Friedman (Hungary)
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Jan 04 2015 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Henry Friedman is a Holocaust Survivor from Hungary and survivor of a firing squad. He attributes his remarkable triumph over the atrocities of war to the protection of his grandmother's blessing. Free Admission to the 2014-2015 Bearing Witness Series provided through a generous gift from The Sara Giles Moore Foundation
The Tragic Case of Leo Frank Featuring Steve Oney and Sandy Berman
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Jan 28 2021 Join Steve Oney, the foremost historian on the Leo Frank case, as he discusses one of the most infamous cases of anti-Semitism in America and a pivotal moment in Atlanta’s Jewish history. The class is moderated by founding archivist of The Breman, Sandra Berman, who devoted her career to collecting original historic items from the case and curated an in-depth exhibition that travele...
BEARING WITNESS - Unforgettable Stories From The Holocaust - Manuela Mendels Bornstein
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JAN 31, 2021 Unforgettable Stories From The Holocaust featuring Manuela Mendels Bornstein Manuela and her family survived the Holocaust hiding in Vichy France. Her story honors the “conspiracy of goodness” that saved them from Parisian neighbors and friends, to members of the Resistance, to the grace of villagers who never revealed their whereabouts despite great danger to themselves.
LIVE! At The Breman - The Joe Alterman Trio: Jazz Playing Jazz Standards
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LIVE! At The Breman - The Joe Alterman Trio: Jazz Playing Jazz Standards
LIVE! At The Breman - Jews and Jazz II
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LIVE! At The Breman - Jews and Jazz II
Unforgettable Stories From The Holocaust Featuring Hershel Greenblat
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Unforgettable Stories From The Holocaust Featuring Hershel Greenblat
Bearing Witness - Unforgettable Stories From The Holocaust featuring George Rishfeld 11/22/2020
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Bearing Witness - Unforgettable Stories From The Holocaust featuring George Rishfeld 11/22/2020
LIVE! At The Breman - Best Selling Author Bruce Feiler
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LIVE! At The Breman - Best Selling Author Bruce Feiler
Janice Rothschild Blumberg Lecture Featuring Keynote Speaker Alfred Uhry
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Janice Rothschild Blumberg Lecture Featuring Keynote Speaker Alfred Uhry
LIVE! At The Breman - Jews and Jazz 1
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LIVE! At The Breman - Jews and Jazz 1
The Kaiser of Atlantis - Art Talk Live at The Breman
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The Kaiser of Atlantis - Art Talk Live at The Breman
Conversation with Photographer Herb Snitzer
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Conversation with Photographer Herb Snitzer
Perla Batalla Greeting to The Breman Museum
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Perla Batalla Greeting to The Breman Museum
Virtual Tour: Explainer
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Virtual Tour: Explainer
Married to the Rabbi: Panel Discussion
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Married to the Rabbi: Panel Discussion
Jews of Florida: Centuries of Stories
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Jews of Florida: Centuries of Stories
Atlanta's 125th Anniversary of the National Council for Jewish Women
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Atlanta's 125th Anniversary of the National Council for Jewish Women
The First Jews in Georgia
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The First Jews in Georgia

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @rozsheehy6146
    @rozsheehy6146 2 місяці тому

    I'm not even going to watch this. The name of your video should be The tragic case of MARY FAGAN!!! 🤬

  • @OctavioDelgado-ft8rd
    @OctavioDelgado-ft8rd 2 місяці тому

    What kind of tree

  • @RebelZoe1804
    @RebelZoe1804 2 місяці тому

    Jews always want to blame other ppl especially black ppl for their wickedness

  • @markbrown375
    @markbrown375 2 місяці тому

    Judah Philip Benjamin Benjamin was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America and the first to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced his faith.

    • @aimpat34
      @aimpat34 9 днів тому

      ...& became a successful barrister in London, England.

  • @abc-ey4ld
    @abc-ey4ld 2 місяці тому

    I gave her that fiddler on the roof. She still looks startled.

  • @crusadesdidnothingwrong
    @crusadesdidnothingwrong 2 місяці тому

    LOL at the comment section! You lost the narrative! Everyone is waking up to the ways of the Leo Franks and Jeffrey Epsteins!

  • @realolivertwisted
    @realolivertwisted 2 місяці тому

    These comments give me hope. What a joke!! Tragic case??? It was tragic for MARY PHAGAN, whom he DELETED!!!

    • @tonyharden7159
      @tonyharden7159 2 місяці тому

      @realolivertwisted It is my hope to visit Mary Phagan's grave in the fall and pay my respects to her.

    • @chinchintabete
      @chinchintabete 8 днів тому

      We all NOTICED the truth

  • @Medved-j8v
    @Medved-j8v 3 місяці тому

    Великие хуцпаряны

  • @markbrown375
    @markbrown375 3 місяці тому

    100 reasons leo frank was guilty on youtube

  • @kimmie030366
    @kimmie030366 4 місяці тому

    20 other girls came forward about pedafile. Guilty. Only today they walk free to commit against new victims.

  • @jimgreek6469
    @jimgreek6469 4 місяці тому

    Leo Frank is 100% guilty

  • @deerheart87
    @deerheart87 5 місяців тому

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @m.c.5459
    @m.c.5459 6 місяців тому

    The ADL is steeped in disgraceful works.

  • @ravholly
    @ravholly 9 місяців тому

    A hundred years later and Jews like Harley Weinstien, and Jeffery Epstien are still preying on and assulting gentiles and gentile children and the Jewish community still pretending it's antisemitism.

  • @sym8246-f5c
    @sym8246-f5c 9 місяців тому

    Critsism of Leo Frank is anti sematism, the same way critisim of Jeffery Epstein is anti sematism.

    • @farleyxwilbur3867
      @farleyxwilbur3867 8 місяців тому

      Coming from a person who doesn't even know how to spell Semitism.

  • @robbie2002
    @robbie2002 Рік тому

    Best swinging pianist that I've heard since Oscar Peterson

  • @MindUrBiznss
    @MindUrBiznss Рік тому

    Leo Frank was a pedophile, rapist, and murderer. He was justly convicted and executed.

  • @SigKyle-pm4fb
    @SigKyle-pm4fb Рік тому

    The lynchers were never charged with a crime because no crime was committed! Deleting good people's comments is a crime of which you thugs will see justice!

  • @SigKyle-pm4fb
    @SigKyle-pm4fb Рік тому

    How he survived the death camps along with so many others is his greatest feat of magic...

  • @wzukr
    @wzukr Рік тому

    " spent time in three different concentration camps." Spare the world your fairy tales. He was in the ghetto Theresienstadt and in the concentration camps Birkenau and Mauthausen. No one does appreciate your misinformation!

  • @GreenBeret1903
    @GreenBeret1903 Рік тому

    Leo was a disgusting man that deserved what he got. That fact that you the jewish community continues to defend him is sickening

  • @lynnjohnson4853
    @lynnjohnson4853 Рік тому

    Dr. Samuel Nunes was my 8th great grandfather. I am so into Ancestry and learning all about this line of my family!

  • @shainazion4073
    @shainazion4073 Рік тому

    Thank you so much, a very interesting video.

  • @shainazion4073
    @shainazion4073 Рік тому

    The "Black Israelites", I do not mean Black Jews, were never Jews, they are Africans that believe they are Jews, and Jews are fake. They also worship Jesus and use the New Testament and misread the Torah.

  • @shainazion4073
    @shainazion4073 Рік тому

    Crypto Jews were Jews forced to convert to Catholism, not Judaism.

  • @shainazion4073
    @shainazion4073 Рік тому

    Fascinating, there is information on the UA-cam channel *Ninety-three TV* for Black and Sephardi Jews and why Jews were considered as Black, or Swarthy.

  • @dr.wiltonmcdonaldii1144
    @dr.wiltonmcdonaldii1144 Рік тому

    Feeling left out and this is not right. As a bona-fide Macdonald, Haplo E, personal family tree over 550,000 members, 15,000 plus DNA matches between me/ my dad across 8 platforms, over 2 million records, 8 DNA tests completed including Big Y and YSEQ whole genome tests, and no evidence of non paternal events- the BBC documentary leaves no space for ethnic group members such as myself who connect to Scotland and Clan Macdonald. There are so many holes in the current narrative on the history of the UK and Scotland. Driving the point home- King Somerled's body was never found and no direct DNA test was done on the bones of Somerled to confirm what race or haplogroup (suspected haplo E) Somerled was ? There is also no clear cut agreement on who Somerled’s parents were !! The Macdonalds and Somerled would be related to the ancient African PICTS observed by 1st century AD Roman lawyer and historian Tacitus and others. Unfortunately most of the books of Tacitus are conveniently lost. Similar fate has befallen the original manuscript of Donald Monro of the People of Scotland written in the 1500s. That original book of Monro has been lost to time www.wikiwand.com/en/Description_of_the_Western_Isles_of_Scotland but edited and redacted versions of Monro’s book include black/ brown skin references of the people who lived on the Scottish ISLES but since we don’t have a full copy of the book available today I can only assume Monro’s descriptions of blacks would be extended to persons living on the Scottish mainland and England and have thus been deliberately omitted. History is just waking up to presence of blacks in Europe/ UK with books such as the Black Tudors being published by Miranda Kaufman, Memoirs of the secret services of John Mackay, Esq- archive.org/details/memoirssecretse00mackgoog , David Macritchie has already published books on the Ancient Britons described as black. On the side of DNA science- Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson- a Harvard PhD and microbiologist has published his book TRACED which concludes that all Y DNA mutations have occurred over the last 5,000 to 6,000 years confirming the Genesis/ Creationist timeline and putting blacks in Europe and UK and even in pre Columbus Americas around 500 years ago. History has been unkind to telling the real story impacting black and brown people. The contributions of the Golden Era of the Moors and Ottomans have been downplayed and era spanning over 500 years of white slavery particularly from the ancient RUS and Caucasus region has been redacted. The history books have failed to mention Henry VIII’s and Thomas Cromwell’s destruction of UK cultural icons which chronicled centuries of black history paving the way for the new Church of England, that the French Revolution brought to an end the legacy of black nobility in France/ Europe, and that Lord Protector- Oliver Cromwell in the mid 1600s murdered and deported thousands and possibly millions of Euro blacks most of whom were absorbed into the fabric of the New World alongside West African slaves. My own DNA and mostly white haplo E Big Y DNA cousins point to Orkney Scotland with most distant relative with boots on the ground around 1,000 years ago. Terminal SNP is E-FT405608. History needs to be re-written and is grossly distorted. My line of Macdonalds - subset of the Sleats arrived in Jamaica in the early to mid 1700s from Scotland but that line is no longer tracked by the www.peerage.com for reasons unknown to me or anyone else. I have DNA links to other Haplo E Macdonalds (in USA and PEI Canada), Collins, Campbells, Sinclairs/ St Clairs (with graves opened in JAMAICA), Logans, Wyllies, Stephens, Beardens, Grahams, Martins, McGees, Calhouns, Colquists, More grave digs and DNA testing planned in weeks to come. Thanks to the Russians- historical relics/ icons are now available to confirm the existence of Euro/ UK blacks and the dominance of black people who occupied the entire planet going back 500 years ago and up to 3,000 years ago leading back to BCE 4,000 and a black Adam. Sources have always been a problem for black/ brown folk to prove their ancestry. Even the Holy Bible translated into English by a black Stuart king in 1611 had 80 books but 14 books were kicked out including Book of Enoch which provides a richer background to the Genesis / Creation story and the existence of the Nephilim/ Caucasoid giants. Ben Franklin - a Freemason said it best in his 1751 Essay on the Increase of Mankind founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-0080 . "24. Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth." Finally United Nations population studies confirm that the ratio of whites to non-whites is 1.5 to 8.5 or 15 percent of the population and by 2050 this ratio will decrease to 1 to 9 or 10 percent of the human population which makes the case that much more difficult to believe the current narrative which appears to whitewash the last 500 years of human history.

  • @markiec8914
    @markiec8914 Рік тому

    Stop this propaganda....Leo Frank wasn't found guilty because of his Jewishness, he was guilty because of the great amount of evidence found against him. Period!

  • @oliviamartini9700
    @oliviamartini9700 Рік тому

    Leo Frank was notoriously inappropriate with the young factory girls and was as guilty as sin; a sick, perverted animal who needed to be put down. He tried to entrap a black man to hang instead, the coward. Finally, his wife refused to be buried anywhere near him. Deal with it.

  • @marniekilbourne608
    @marniekilbourne608 Рік тому

    Mob mentality is never reasonable or justified. It's sickening. They are not judge and jury. The legal system is, even with it's flaws. Mobs of people should never be allowed to inflict their own sentence. Those men in that picture should all have been charged with murder. There was no reasonable doubt that they committed a murder! Unlike either Frank or Connoly.

  • @jayguider2328
    @jayguider2328 Рік тому

    I AM glad that this information is being discussed

  • @boerasta1786
    @boerasta1786 Рік тому

    Shalom all , Great info🦁🌍🍷

  • @ВиталийМураневич

    Ещё бы противогазы надели...

  • @Csdabest89
    @Csdabest89 Рік тому

    Do you have a collection of sources?

  • @stuart8663
    @stuart8663 2 роки тому

    Sheer stupidity wearing the masks. Lost me immediately.

  • @bobsmith3291
    @bobsmith3291 2 роки тому

    Why on gods earth are they wearing masks 😂

    • @js2084
      @js2084 6 місяців тому

      It was December of the pandemic in 2020.

  • @joebiggs135
    @joebiggs135 2 роки тому

    The ADL is a criminal organization

  • @isabelteles521
    @isabelteles521 2 роки тому

    Hearing for the first time... ♥

  • @chrisgartland1967
    @chrisgartland1967 2 роки тому

    This is Mask !!! Man !!!

  • @jimrogers7460
    @jimrogers7460 2 роки тому

    the masks are for cult victims and idiots

  • @GLOMARITO
    @GLOMARITO 2 роки тому

    Excelente y extraordinario, gracias.

  • @bruced47
    @bruced47 2 роки тому

    Take off that stupid mask!

  • @khw2288
    @khw2288 2 роки тому

    Diese Masken sind tatsächlich idiotisch. wer sollte die auf der Bühne schon anstecken, habe gleich abgedreht......

  • @stevereich2940
    @stevereich2940 2 роки тому

    These Zoom concerts must be very challenging to pull off (no audience, masks, etc.!). This is one of the better ones I've seen. Nice stuff, and enjoyed the anecdotes shared about Rollins and James Moody.

  • @mjaxdes
    @mjaxdes 2 роки тому

    saw the mask and hit back

  • @mikeking7351
    @mikeking7351 2 роки тому

    Yea good thing you guys are wearing those bullshit, idiotic useless dust masks that do nothing to hold back viruses.....STUPID.

  • @barbaradamendugo1783
    @barbaradamendugo1783 2 роки тому

    Love it ! Masks & all

  • @davidheilig
    @davidheilig 2 роки тому

    What a inspire talk. Thank you for upload this and thank Werner so much for his speaking engagement.

  • @Rickriquinho
    @Rickriquinho 2 роки тому

    This Erroll Garner style is a bit superficial. A great piano player is above all a solo creator not an atmospheric sound maker.

  • @delpanos
    @delpanos 2 роки тому

    superb jazz blues pianist!! his chord work brings to mind Red Garland's approach