Tag: Jewish Music
In memory of Danny Ben-Israel
On March 11, the world lost someone who was very special, who made a mark and touched people with his voice, as a singer, a humorist and writer. Born in Tel Aviv in 1944,...
Tapping into the ‘Golden Age’ of cantorial music for the 21st century
Aryeh Leib Hurwitz is attuned to all things musical. A chazzan (“cantor”) and ordained Chabad rabbi born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., he studied at yeshivahs around the world while honing his voice and performing...
Ada & Allison “In Droyzn is Finster” (It’s dark outside)
בלומינגטאָנער טאַלאַנטן
אַדה־רבקה העטקאָ און אַליסאָן פּאָזנער
זינגען דאָס פאָלקסליד
“אין דרויסן איז פינצטער”
בלומינגטאָן, אינדיאַנאַדעם 14טן אַפּריל 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=96&v=1S0VtsoknEA
Gale Kissin sings “Mame Loshn”
Few recordings so well selected, so clearly interpreted, and so significative as this one:
Gale Kissin sings Mama Loshn
15 songs that illustrate Jewish life and struggles through the last 300 years!
I was afraid that America...
Sephardic music: La Roza enflorese
Sephardic music has its roots in the musical traditions of the Jewish communities in medieval Spain. Since then, it has picked up influences from Morocco, Argentina, Turkey, Greece, and the other places that Spanish...
Atlanta Jewish Music Festival features Cohn, others
One of Atlanta’s premier international musical events, the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival, returns for its ninth year with a diverse musical lineup curated to please audiences of all ages, backgrounds and affiliations, including Jews...
Famous singer Noa to perform at Palm Beach County synagogues
Two Palm Beach County synagogues are planning fundraising concerts. Israeli singer/songwriter Noa will perform her hit songs on Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. at Temple Emanu-El in Palm Beach, while Cantor Norman Brody sings songs from...
A Jew’s Blues: Mike Bloomfield
IN THE 1960s musicians broke through the invisible barrier of the three-minute pop song. The single that did it, which rose to number 2, in fact, was Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965). Its six minutes...
Musical Festival Resurrects Works by Jewish Composers Murdered in the Holocaust
In mid-September 1938, Benito Mussolini stood on an immense platform in the port city of Trieste’s Piazza dell’ Unita d’Italia and delivered a radio broadcast to the Italian people.
Far below him, thousands had packed...
Flamenco Sephardit returning for fifth year in Miami Beach
The concert Flamenco Sephardit which celebrates two distinct Spanish cultures fused together through music, dance and poetry returns to Miami Beach for the fifth consecutive year on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m.
This upcoming fifth...