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The following Sunday, Feb. 18,
Waghalter's Sonata in F Minor for
violin and piano and several of his
art songs for mezzo-soprano will
be included in a 3 p.m. concert at
McKenzie Hall in Windsor.
Ignatz Waghalter came from a long
line of musicians. His great-grandfa-
ther, Laibisch Waghalter, was a violinist
known as "the Paganini of the East"
— although, as an Orthodox Jew, he
did not concertize.
Ignatz Waghalter began his career at
age 6 in Poland, playing violin in music
halls, at the circus and at homes of
wealthy patrons. After studying at the
Academy of Art in Berlin — where he
won the Mendelssohn Prize, the school's
highest award for composition — he
turned his attention to conducting.
"Of the many prominent Jewish-
born musicians in Germany, such as
Otto Klemperer and Bruno Walter, he
was one of the few who did not con-
vert," Green said.
Once he settled in the United States,
Waghalter tried establishing both a
"Negro Orchestra" and a "Doctors
Orchestra," his grandson said. His
works were performed occasionally in
New York but never caught on with a
wider audience.
"His great melodicism was outdat-
ed," Green said. "Postwar critics didn't
get it:'

Green's mother, Beatrice Waghalter
Green, had been a star of the Judische
Kulturbund, the only venue temporari-
ly allowed Jewish performers in Hitler's
Germany. In New York, she became a
leading interpreter of the works of Kurt
Weill, performing as Beatrice Lind.
In 1989, she returned to Berlin to
hear a performance of her father's
comic opera, Jugend.
The Detroit-area performance marks
Waghalter's Michigan debut. Green
couldn't be more pleased.
"All this wonderful music is finally
coming back to the public — music
they will be able to appreciate and
identify with."

The music of Ignatz Waghalter will
be featured in two upcoming con-
certs.
Music at the Scarab Club, 7 p.m.
Sunday, Feb.11, preceded by a 6
p.m. prelude, at the Scarab Club, 217
Farnsworth, in Detroit. $20 at the
door; $18 in advance; $10 for stu-
dents. (248) 474-8930 or
scarabclub.orgichambermusic.
Windsor Symphony Chamber Music,
3 p.m. Sunday, Feb.18, in Mackenzie
Hall, 3277 Sandwich St., in Windsor.
$24; $20 seniors and students. (519)
252-6579 or windsorsymphony.com

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Sandler greatly admires Silver's 1975
film Hester Street, but she doesn't see
her characters as descendants of the
Jewish immigrants who lived in the
same neighborhood a century before.
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autobiographical': she says, with Izzy
as Sandler's stand-in and Bubbie as her
grandmother.
The pickle man was based — in
spirit, if not profession — on her hus-
band, learning specialist and author
Hugh Conlon (Nine Familiar Fables).
Although born in New York City,
Susan Sandler grew up in Newport
News, Va., where her father and uncle
had a furniture business. While her
friends went to summer camp, Sandler
headed north to spend vacations with
her bubbie in Manhattan's traditionally
Jewish enclave.
"My sense of New York ended at 14th
Street': she recalls. "It was all about the
Lower East Side. That was the city for
me — her world, that was my orienta-
tion:'
The memories of those summers and
the people she encountered — includ-
ing the pickle lady who lived nearby
and a matchmaker who worked the

park benches — were the genesis for
Crossing Delancey, from a time when
Sandler was "a lonely single woman
in New York looking for Mr. Right and
feeling that he would never materialize."
Sandler became involved in every
aspect of the film, including finding
actress Reizl Boyzk (she and her hus-
band Max were known as the Burns
and Allen of the Yiddish Theater).
Reizl's combination of warmth and
humor captured the spirit of the bub-
bie who had so influenced Sandler but
didn't see her eventual success.
Now, while planning for the New York
premiere of her newest play, Under
the Bed, a comedy set in the world of
seniors in South Florida, Sandler tells
her screenwriting students at New York
University that although her experience
with Crossing Delancey was atypical,
it's not impossible.
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know are going to respect what your
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