Music

Mieczysław Weinberg wrote music equal in its genius to Mahler and Shostakovich, including one of the most powerful tributes to the victims of 20th-century tyranny.

Dec. 10 2019 12:01AM

Jennie Litvack, in memoriam.

Economist
July 24 2019 12:01AM

Eric Vogel and the Ghetto Swingers.

Amanda Petrusich
April 29 2019 12:01AM

How two psychics and a Lubavitch Ḥasid led an aspiring rock musician to Jewish observance.

Peter Himmelman
March 9 2018 12:01AM

Untouched for decades in England.

Joel Rubin
Dec. 28 2017 12:01AM

Heartless psalms.

Nathaniel Peters
Dec. 13 2017 12:01AM

Růžičková, who died in September, survived both Hitler and Stalin to become a brilliant interpreter of J.S. Bach—and the only person to commit his entire keyboard oeuvre to disc.

Nov. 9 2017 12:01AM

A Polish-Jewish composer who survived Auschwitz as the camp’s musical conductor wrote in an elegant style out of step with his times. Now the times are coming around.

Sept. 27 2017 12:01AM

Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Alex Ryvchin
Sept. 18 2017 12:01AM

Bringing Jewish music back from the ashes of Kristallnacht.

Jordan Kutzik
Dec. 19 2016 12:01AM

Friends, but never close, our paths intersected and then diverged, until this past September, when I connected with Leonard for the last time.

Nov. 30 2016 12:01AM

A musical analogue to the story of Joseph?

Barton Swaim
Sept. 20 2016 12:01AM