Music: Israeli & Jewish Music
Could It Be Time For A Yiddish ‘Porgy And Bess?’
Before he wrote ‘Porgy,’ George Gershwin had planned to write an opera based on ‘The Dybbuk.’
The Secret Jewish History of Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John, whose Jewish grandfather escaped Hitler’s regime, turns 71 today.
Doubling On The Shofar: A High Holiday Jazz Story
He had dreams of being Miles Davis or John Coltrane. They came true on Rosh Hashanah (sort of).
From ‘Star Wars’ To Madonna: 7 Times Shofars Showed Up Outside Shul
The shofar is not a very versatile instrument. Still, it has popped up in some interesting places over the course of its history.
Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor And Yiddish Theater Scion, To Receive Kennedy Center Honor
Thomas, the music director of the San Francisco Symphony, is the grandson of Yiddish Theater great Boris Thomashefsky.
WATCH: The Musical Legacy Of Velvel Pasternak
A selection of songs associated with the great ethnomusicologist Velvel Pasternak.
Woody Guthrie’s Jewish Soul And The Tale Of A Tulsa Tallis
A tallis? In Woody Guthrie’s Tulsa of all places?
Velvel Pasternak, Champion Of Traditional Jewish Music, Dies At 86
Velvel Pasternak, the publisher, scholar and nonpareil Jewish music historian primarily known for his expertise on the music of Hasidism, has died.
The Secret Jewish History Of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue
Dylan is far from the only Jewish thing in Martin Scorsese’s documentary about the seminal 1975 tour.
In Leonard Cohen’s Letters, A Window Into His Life And Work
Over 50 letters that Cohen sent to Marianne Ihlen, his one-time lover and early muse, will be auctioned at Christie’s in New York starting June 5.
