Tag: music
A Jewish opera legend’s family is divided by cancel culture
Few things are sadder than when a family is divided by politics. But when it happens because of outside pressure and false accusations that threaten to destroy the legacy of a beloved father, what...
“A dank dir, mayn lebn” – Chilean classic “Gracias a la vida”, sung in...
Maybe the most beautiful hymn to life ever written with no need of further introductions or explanations. It is a song telling everything in itself, and going directly inside the core of everyone of...
‘Building’ Jerusalem: Tower of David exhibit features cultural icons
Museums are in crisis all over the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the loss of visitor revenue, many smaller museums are being forced to close, and larger ones are postponing reopenings because...
Vera Lynn, the voice of resistance against the Nazis, dies
Vera Lynn, who sang the songs that touched the hearts and lifted the spirits of Britons from the bomb-blitzed streets of London and Coventry to the sands of North Africa and the jungles of...
זומינאַר: פֿאַר וואָס זענען ייִדישע לידער הײַנט אַזוי פּאָפּולער?
במשך פֿון די לעצטע עטלעכע חדשים האָבן אָנלײַן־קאָנצערטן פֿון ייִדישן געזאַנג צוגעצויגן טויזנטער צוהערער. כּדי בעסער צו פֿאַרשטיין דעם פֿענאָמען וועט שׂרה־רחל שעכטער, די רעדאַקטאָרין פֿונעם פֿאָרווערטס, אָנפֿירן מיט אַ פּאַנעל פֿון באַקאַנטע ייִדישע...
Battling rare illness, journalist forges ahead with musical tribute to Jewish moms
Sometimes, even the most adult person just wishes their mom could make it stop hurting.
Desire to honor his late mother has prompted one New York City man to organize a concert in her memory...
June 15, 1967: Peter Green’s Blues
British guitarist Peter Green (Greenbaum) quit John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, in which he had replaced Eric Clapton, on this date in 1967.
Soon after, Green formed Fleetwood Mac, one of rock’s most enduring bands — but...
May 25, 1920: The famous opera singer Beverly Sills (Belle Miriam Silverman) “Bubbles” was...
Opera star Beverly Sills (Belle Miriam Silverman, nicknamed “Bubbles” at birth) was born in Brooklyn to immigrant parents on this date in 1929. She was singing professionally on the radio from the age of...
אַ מאָל געװען אַ צײַט “A Mol Geven A Tsayt”
But creativity in Yiddish is never ending!
A new song for our times אַ ליד פֿאַר אונדזערע צײַטן
Lyrics: Hindy Nosek-Abelson ליריק׃ הינדי נאָסעק-אייבעלסאָן
Singer: Lenka Lichtenberg זינגערין׃ לענקאַ ליכטענבערג
Melody: Those Were the Days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-bKhA2-VrA&feature=youtu.be
אַ מאָל געװען אַ צײַט
פֿון הינדי נאָסעק-־אייבעלסאָן
אַ מאָל...
Emotionally, KISS frontman Simmons discovers mother’s past during Holocaust
Rock legend and KISS frontman Gene Simmons got teary-eyed when reading over historical documents about his late Jewish mother’s experiences in the Holocaust and liberation from the Mauthausen concentration camp during a recent interview with Bild.
Simmons’s...