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If music be the food of love …

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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...
Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman (seated) with music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck at a Nov. 27, 2018 concert in honor of the 11 Jewish victims of the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue shooting. The concert will be aired nationwide on PBS on Dec. 11, 2018, as well as available afterwards by live-streaming. Credit: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on http://www.itzhakperlman.com.

PBS to air ‘Tree of Life’ concert of unity and hope after Pittsburgh shooting

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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...
Omer Meir Wellber. Credit: Wilfried Hösl/Bavarian State Opera.

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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with members of the rock band Aerosmith at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 18, 2017. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Music to their ears? Advocacy group works to thwart cultural efforts of BDS movement

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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...
Shim Craimer performing. Credit: Courtesy.

Singer, composer and music producer Shim Craimer tunes in to ‘aliyah’

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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...
Oshri Bitau with his mother and their new piano. Photo: Hadashot news.

Young Ethiopian Israeli receives piano from former prime minister Ehud Barak

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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

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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! About Save the Music Save the Music is the exclusive resource and repository of Jewish Music and Videos including...

Repairing the world with music

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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...

The Man Who Made The Beatles

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A Jew living in an anti-Semitic English culture, openly gay at a time when traditional mores still held wide sway, addicted to various drugs – some speculate he was a manic-depressive before a clinical...

Akron High Arts Festival 2017 opens Sept. 15, adds music and film

Starting next Friday, Akronites will have 23 days to check out and vote on visual art, music and film, as venues around the downtown showcase artists' entries during the High Arts Festival 2017. Formerly known as...