Brandeis Magazine

Allen Keme writes, “While traveling in Pennsylvania, I found myself attending the annual Three Stooges Convention in suburban Philadelphia. I ran into Gary Lassin ’77, who owns the Stoogeum, a Stooges museum in Ambler, Pa., with a large collection of memorabilia.” Philadelphia was the hometown of the Stooge Larry (Louis Feinberg) — and Larry’s brother, Morris Feinberg, was the grandfather of Gary’s wife. Jonathan Glixon is a professor of musicology and the provost’s distinguished service professor at the University of Kentucky (UK), where he has been a member of the faculty since 1983. His research areas include the music of Venice, and Renaissance and Baroque music. His wife, Beth, is also a musicologist and member of the UK faculty. She is an expert on 17th-century Venetian opera.