From Baroque Italy to ancient Hebrew poetry, Philharmonia Baroque's "Jewish Nightlife" overturns easy ideas about what Jewish ...
This forgotten musician was once a world-famous singer of both opera and Yiddish folk music. Isa Kremer was a diva who took ...
TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK (RNS) — Twenty-two-year-old soprano Shani Chamovitz flew in on a 10-hour flight from Israel, landing at Newark Airport at 3:30 a.m. on Sunday for the annual North American Jewish ...
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic will focus on Jewish music and culture with two events in February. “Klezmer & ...
On a recent evening, a group of Jewish women gathered at Chabad of Squirrel Hill to rehearse for an upcoming performance. It didn’t take the women long to learn the finale they will perform at “The ...
While antisemitic attacks against him intensified, so did demand for his work — particularly within Jewish communities.
(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — There is a Grammy Award for just about every kind of music — from pop to metal to New Age to Contemporary Christian — but there’s no Jewish ...
(New York Jewish Week) — After she finished her compulsory military service as a singer in an IDF performing arts troupe, Israeli folk singer Bat Ella wasn’t sure how she would incorporate music into ...
Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. (New York Jewish Week) — An Orthodox ...
Arranged in an arc around a piano, four teenagers spend Sunday afternoons singing at the direction of a seasoned conductor. For two hours at a time, the group makes music within the walls of the Sid ...
(JTA) — When my wife and I were planning our wedding, we thought it might be cool to hire a klezmer band. This was during the first wave of the klezmer revival, when groups like The Klezmatics and The ...
The late Al Jahara "AJ Maestro" Hebrew, 30, was well known for being able to play many instruments, but the one it appears he was best at was the heartstrings of everyone he met. "We were close. He ...