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2008 Events

The Jewish Americans, documentary shown in three 2-hour installments on PBS in January.  Gottlieb appeared in a discussion of Irving Berlin on the second program.  Click here for more information.

Presidential Suite, Seattle Choral Company, Fred Coleman, director, Town Hall, Seattle, WA 9 & 10 Feb. 2008. 

Downtown Blues for Uptown Halls, Meredith Stone, soprano, Thomas Osuga, piano, clarinet TBA.  Diller-Quaile School of Music, 24 E. 95th St, NYC.  7:30 pm, 12 Mar. 2008.

Gottlieb's book Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish is being used as a text reference in universities in the U.S. and England.  It also is the basis for a 2007-08 two-semester course in a teleconference learning program for seniors: University Without Walls, sponsored by Dorot, a social service organization.  The San Francisco Public Library also listed it as recommended reading for its website.

The program for the 2008 Production of Bernstein's Candide at New York City Opera includes Gottlieb's Note on Candide on the show's origins.

Duet of Hope, 4 May 2008.  Alecia Batson, soprano.  Old South Church, Boston.

Presidential Suite, 17 May 2008.  Opus 7, Loren Pontén, conductor.  St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle.

Tefilot Sheva, Cantor Judith Naimark, and David Christopher, piano.  The Delaware Valley Chorale concert, "New Songs Of Praise."  18 May, 2008.  Grace Methodist Church, Wilmington, DE.  

Book Talk, 13 June 2008.  Temple Emanu-El of Westchester. Rye, NY.

Book Review of Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish from "Lied und populare Kultur" Journal: "Gottlieb brilliantly ploughs through an area which has been known as fertile for quite some time, but still has not been developed-- it may be that popular music specialists are often not well acquainted enough with traditional Jewish music . . . [the] book offers such an amplitude of substance and evidence that it displays an indispensable reference for further studies on popular music in the USA in the first half of the 20th century."

As part of the Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds Festival, Gottlieb is preparing Leonard Bernstein: A Jewish Legacy, a concert of little-known songs, choral, and piano works alongside more celebrated pieces.  Jewish Museum, NYC, 23 October 2008.  The program will include the first performances of "It's the Jews" and "A Choral Quilt."  Click here for more information.

Recently completed: The Listener's Guide to Old-Time Movies, An Opera in Nine Scenes for Six Singers.

Seeking premieres (all inquiries welcome):
Rick's Place, Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano, inspired by the film Casablanca. In five movements: "Dawn to Dusk," "Gin Joint," "Play It Again," "Shocked!" & "A Beautiful Friendship."  

Belly Dance for Bassoon & Piano.

Three Frankenstein Portraits, settings of poems by Edward Field for Mixed A cappella Chorus & Soloists.