Gershwin
Carole King Wins Gershwin Pop Prize
American singer-songwriter Carole King will be awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the U.S. national library said on Thursday.
The Sacred and the Profane
Though a good deal of his writings are dated, Lazare Saminsky’s thought-provoking discussions of Jewish music deserve a second hearing.
How Authentic Is ‘Porgy and Bess’?
Critics have long feuded over the authenticity of George Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess.’ But the original opera is as far from a cheerful minstrel work as it could be, writes Stuart Isacoff.
April Classical Concerts Turn Cruelest into Coolest Month
A notoriously anti-Semitic poet claimed that April is the cruelest month; all the more reason for Manhattanites to sweeten it with delightful classical concerts redolent with Yiddishkeit. On March 29, the Israeli-American violinist Yuval Waldman will perform “Music Forgotten and Remembered” at Merkin Concert Hall, including such rarities as Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s 1952 “Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes,” and works by two Czech Jewish composers: Gideon Klein, who was murdered at Auschwitz, and “Colloque Sentimentale” (A Chat about Feelings) by Jaromir Weinberger.
