Jewish music
A remarkable concert reintroduces three Jewish composers who fled fascist Europe to America, where two of them pioneered a new art form—the symphonic film score.
3,300 Jews in Serbia, and a choir.
What is Judeo-Arab music?
Hating Wagner is a debilitating Jewish habit. So is loving him.
Aryeh Tepper, an American-born scholar and writer, discusses the musical traditions of Jews from Islamic lands, contemporary Mizrahi popular music in Israel, and his own,. . .
For most people, “Jewish music” implies klezmer, East European folk tunes, or liturgical compositions. But for over a century, Jewish composers have created art music. . .
A group of Israeli musicians has been performing the sacred and secular work of Salomone Rossi, who composed music both for the synagogue and to. . .
In an interviewed with Israeli conductor Arik Vardi, the acclaimed piano virtuoso discusses growing up as a prodigy in the Soviet Union and playing soccer. . .
Gustavo Bulgach’s Yiddish Tango Club mixes klezmer with the Latin American dance style. As students of tango are well aware, there’s nothing new in that.
Also known as Ladino, the language of Sephardi Jewry boasts poetic and musical treasures in danger of being lost; in Seattle, a group is working to conserve it.
Despite reports to the contrary, American Jewish culture isn’t a “project” and it isn’t dead. Far from it.
Just as music has shaped Jewish history and Jewish identity, Jews have influenced the course of music in all its forms.
In a revelatory and defiant performance, the pianist Evgeny Kissin has evoked, through music and Yiddish verse, the modern ordeal of the Jewish people.
The Nazis alleged that Jews possessed no music of their own. A recent musical vogue traduces the memory both of the Holocaust and of the. . .