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Battle Trance in the woods. (Photo courtesy of the band)“When Travis LaPlante invited you to be in a quartet with three other saxophones,” I asked Ditmas Park saxophonist Patrick Breiner [http://breinersounds.tumblr.com/], “what was your first thought?” “Yes,” said Breiner, simply. “ I had no expectations of what
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Neighbor Harriet Semegram has surprisingly deep and diverse roots in the Ditmas Park arts scene. More than 50 years ago, she compiled a visual history of Eastern European Jewish life that became the visual inspiration for Fiddler on the Roof. But before this groundbreaking project, Semegram had never made a
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“Crosecitree,” mixed media artwork by Ditmas Park resident Kathy Levine.The environment where an artist creates their work can show up in unexpected ways. If you peer out the second floor window of the farmhouse in the Berkshires where Herman Melville lived while he wrote Moby Dick, you can see