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A klezmer virtuoso, Joseph Moskowitz was a cymbalist of Jewish progress in America
The Moskowitz Archive at the Library of Congress chronicles the triumphs and travails of a musical pioneer
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For Bob Dylan’s 85th birthday, an 85-minute playlist
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Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas, celebrated conductor and Yiddish Theater royalty, dies at 81
The conductor led major symphonies and championed music education
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Marx Brothers fans rejoice: There’s a recording of Harpo speaking
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In Elie Wiesel’s latter years, he and I discussed the effects of the Holocaust. Those conversations are now an opera.
'The Dialogue of Memories,' based on conversations between Wiesel and Howard Reich premieres next month in Seattle
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An 82-year-old Jewish recording legend on his film directing debut: ‘I could have been good at this’
in 'Heart & Soul,' Kenny Vance pays tribute to the doo-wop legends who inspired his career
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Broadway opus debuts in the U.S. — nearly 80 years late
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How I found freedom in a Passover Seder, an amp and a red Fender Duo-Sonic guitar
A $150 musical instrument and a gig at a cafeteria led me out of my personal Egypt
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How hundreds of forgotten klezmer tunes have been rescued from oblivion
Thanks to a mammoth Klezmer Institute digitization project, we can hear Jewish music that hasn't been played for generations
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