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PAGE 20 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 10, 1986 Wishing A Happy & Healthy New Year Lynn & Mark Bressler of ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ * ACADEMIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAM * The cutting-edge A shofar and all that jazz * * * ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ Suite 262 Enrollment Is limited 120 Copeland Rd Hourly rate: $25 ^ Conveniently Located in Sandy Springs { “NO ONE DOES IT BETTER” J ^ Roberta Simonelli 843-3812 Tristram Coffin ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Professional, Individualized Assistance All Levels, In: English Comp. • Reading Comprehension Study Skills • Organizational Skills Basic Math • Pre-Algebra • Algebra Geometry • SAT Prep Mon.—Sun. Flexible Hours * * * * * * * * * * * by Edwin Black Seymour Schwartz was raised in the 1920s with about 200 other kids in the Chicago Home for Jewish Orphans. As he was growing up, he always wanted to play the violin. But people at the Home said, “We don’t have a violin. Here, kid, try a cornet.” So he did. Seymour was natural for music. His father, who died while Sey mour was a child, was a simple Russian tailor. But Seymour’s mother trained for the Metropoli tan Opera before the great influenza plague of 1918 took her life; and her father before her was a cantor in Europe. Seymour’s music, how ever, would go in a different direc tion. He was coming of age in the ’20s. The Great War to end all wars was over, and America was into swing, big bands and steamy jazz clubs. So when the cornet and Seymour clicked, the music they made together was of course jazz. His Chicago orphanage encour aged music ability. Seymour joined the 50-kid dance band and quickly it. 7 didn't believe an American could describe the Soviet situation so accurately!” - YAKOV GORODETSKY... O ne of the three major Soviet activists let out of Russia this year, Yakov Gorodetsky also wrote to author, Stan Rose, co publisher of the Southern Israelite: 4 4 ¥ want this book I Photos by Shirley Rose to be widely read in the USA because sometimes Americans don’t know the issue. MEMO FROM RUSSIA is right to the point!” sg»5 Available nationally by special order at B. Dalton Booksellers! Southern Israelite readers: We will send you autographed copies of MEMO FROM RUSSIA. Just fill out the information below and Include $2.00 shipping charge for each order. Your name Addraaa Number of book* ordered ( ) @ >9.95 each plus >2.00 chipping charge = > . City . State Zip Total Pleaae aend check with thla order and mall to: MEMO FROM RUSSIA c/o Southern leraellte Sun Book Dlvtaion 7373 W. 107th St. Overland Park, KS 66212 NOTE: Shipping charge appllea only to flrat book ordered. Additional copies Included with order are $9.95 I J earned a reputation for soulful horn playing. “I was only 14 when someone heard about my music and asked me to play horn on Rosh Hashana at a Reform Synagogue. They told me the notes and asked for a shofar effect. I did it, and it meant more to me than all the other plastic crap I had ever blown. I was too young to figure out why, but I knew blowing in a synagogue was something special.” Seymour kept trumpeting. But when the Depression hit, Seymour couldn’t afford to pursue a performance career. He was forced instead to take work as a shipping clerk for a dress manufacturer. “But the truth is,” Seymour remembers, “my music slid.” Eventually, however, in 1947, Seymour was able to return to the world of music. He opened a jazz store under the “L” tracks in down town Chicago. “It was one of the hottest jazz shops in the country,” recalls Seymour. “We sold all the best records and sheet music, and held jam sessions all the time. Downbeat magazine writers would hang around, and the big names of jazz, including Louis Armstrong, albums of Jackie Gleason, and slowly my lip did come back,” says Seymour. “Once, Louis Armstrong came in to buy a record, heard me play, and said “You ought to be out playing, not in here.” In 1958, Seymour sold his store and settled in as a manufacturer’s rep covering a six-state region for a line of Japanese guitars and drums. “But everywhere I went,” assures Seymour, “that horn stayed with me as a friend. Even in hotels, 1 would put a mute in and still play." The next musical event for Sey mour, however, was not of his own doing. In the late ’70s, his grown sons Gerry and Steve moved to Israel and became Orthodox. “In the process, I became indoctrinated too,” says Seymour. “I started to find new ways to express my new religious feeling.” About five years ago, the idea of blowing the shofar began appeal ing to Seymour. “It’s something 1 could automatically believe in,” says Seymour, “both because it is an instrument and it is religious. Look, it was there with Abraham, it was there with Moses on Mount Sinai when he received the Ten would always drop in when they hit Chicago.” Seymour continued playing his horn, even as he became a mer- Commandments. To me, it was a way to get more deeply into my Judaism.” Seymour tried at least two dozen chant rather than a performer. “I would play along with the jazz Continued next page. Paine Webber Marvin S. Epstein Senior Vice President - Investments Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis Tower Place, Suite 975 3340 Peachtree Road, N.E. 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