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John Zorn Does Christmas?!

Today on Tablet

by
Marc Tracy
December 21, 2011

What is John Zorn, the famous composer and impresario behind the avant-garde Radical Jewish Culture movement, doing releasing a Christmas album, complete with traditional carols (jazzed up, but only slightly) and even a couple original compositions? Jake Marmer explains today in Tablet Magazine, with reference both to Zorn’s and his own life experiences, that this is in keeping with Zorn’s project of looking to his own past, being radical, and making everything, as Zorn puts it, “more what it is.”

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.