![]() ![]() I just dust off the cobwebs, pick it up and get back on it.”Ī born and bred New Yorker, Jenny Powers is a lover of words with a knack for uncovering fascinating stories and staying on top of trends. “Even if I did have the time, I don’t think my neighbors would particularly appreciate it,” he said. He was a proud graduate, having now earned a Nurse Practitioner Masters and Doctorate of Nursing Practice, and he was also a performer, playing a tune called “The Rowan Tree” on his bagpipes for the crowd of nearly two thousand graduates and their guests at Radio City Music Hall.īetween his studies, nursing career, a wife and three year old son and another child on the way, there’s not much time to practice the bagpipes. This past week, Sherman took on two distinct roles at the Class of 2018 Hunter College Graduation ceremony. Darrell is an open class solo competitor, band leade. While it may seem unusual to see a Hasidic Jewish man in a kilt playing the bagpipes, Sherman is quick to tell you he’s not the only member of the tribe to do so, referencing another one of his mentors Rabbi Avraham Bloomensteil of Dallas, Texas along with a few others he’s heard of which include a husband and wife duo, a man informally known as “the Crown Heights bagpiper” and even a guy he says plays competitively. Bagpipes from San Bernardino, CA (26 miles from Pomona, CA) Darrell Calvillo is a top-rated bagpipe player serving all of Southern California including, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Inland Empire, and the High Desert. Sherman says he “still plays mostly traditional Scottish tunes, as Jewish music doesn’t usually fit in the bagpipes very narrow nine note range.” One thing that hasn’t changed though is his love of music and playing the bagpipes. In 2006, two days before Chanukah, he became an Orthodox Jew. I now had the mystical along with the theoretical.”Īfter a heart-to-heart conversation with his concerned mother and getting her blessing, Sherman took on a series of time-consuming and laborious studies for eighteen months. Finally, I could take the spiritual and make it practical in my every day life. Judaism washed all those questions away for me. “Over time it was clear to me that Orthodox Judaism was where I belonged in the world,” Sherman says, adding, “ Before I had a lot of questions, there seemed to be a lot of holes and things didn’t make sense. It was there he met Rabbi Dov Yonah Korn and his wife Sarah, who would later become his mentors. Though carpentry may not have been his thing, when his friend Larry invited him to help build a sukkah at the local Chabad House, he agreed. “I was only at Hunter to get a nursing degree because firefighters need a second job to make ends meet, and carpentry wasn’t my thing,” he says now. Around the same time, he considered enrolling in Dom Bosco, a prep school that funneled boys into the seminary and priesthood, but decided against it in the end - instead planning to go to Hunter College for a nursing degree. By the time he was a teen, he played well enough to be invited to perform at weddings and funerals. ![]()
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