Tag: music
Bon Jovi rocks Tel Aviv, despite pressure from BDS movement
World-renowned rock band Bon Jovi performed in front of some 50,000 people in Tel Aviv on July 25, despite pressure from the BDS movement not to play in Israel.
According to The Jerusalem Post, lead singer Jon...
‘Jewish music’ program thrills at UC San Diego
Story by Eileen Wingard, Photos by Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel
The venerable UCSD pianist, Cecil Lytle, chooses a different theme each year for the annual Lytle Scholarship Concert, raising funds for UC San Diego’s Preuss...
If music be the food of love …
The idea came to me when the announcer on the radio said that the next item in the music program would be one of Mozart’s ‘Haydn Quartets,’ i.e., quartets composed by Mozart and dedicated...
PBS to air ‘Tree of Life’ concert of unity and hope after Pittsburgh shooting
PBS will broadcast WQED’s locally produced “Tree of Life: A Concert for Peace and Unity,” presented and hosted by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to honor the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue victims and first responders, in...
Beersheva native named as new chief conductor of BBC Philharmonic
The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that Israeli conductor-composer Omer Meir Wellber, 36, has been appointed as the BBC Philharmonic’s new chief conductor. He is to take up the post in September 2019 and his initial...
Music to their ears? Advocacy group works to thwart cultural efforts of BDS movement
Since its founding in 2005, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has targeted Israeli universities, businesses and cultural organizations. Most recently, its efforts against Israel’s music scene has been in the headlines more...
Singer, composer and music producer Shim Craimer tunes in to ‘aliyah’
Shim Craimer, whose dulcet tones and high energy have secured him a place as a sought-after Jewish musical performer, has sung at hundreds of weddings in the New York area and in his native...
Young Ethiopian Israeli receives piano from former prime minister Ehud Barak
A young Ethiopian-Israeli boy whose rare musical talent got him featured on Israeli news was gifted his very own piano by a former Israeli prime minister.
Ten-year-old Oshri Bitau from Nazareth Illit was discovered to...
SaveTheMusic presents: Bist a Goy, the new Yiddish song amazing Israelis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Mgrr1Nkx0
GOY - The Eurovision 2018 Israeli entry "TOY" Super-jewish cover by Tehila - The Kosher Diva, in Yiddish!
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SDSU Live Downtown
SAN DIEGO — As an artist and teacher, I’ve always been a passionate advocate of arts in education. I’ve seen from research and personal experience how the arts can really ignite sparks in...