Internationally acclaimed, Fortuna was honored in 2025 with the Pomegranate Lifetime Achievement Award for Preservation of Sephardic Culture, recognizing her outstanding contribution to safeguarding ...
It is about the music. It is about heritage. It is about creating something extremely special, honoring our tradition and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOE BUCHANAN, flanked by Israeli and American flags, in his home musical workshop in Houston, Texas. (photo credit: ...
Every song has a story, and given the prevalence of Jewish musicians, it’s often a Jewish story. True for ” Hatikvah ” and ” By Mir Bistdu Shoen,” but also for “White Christmas”—or even “Ave Maria.” ...
Two new podcasts by Jewish Chicagoans offer original takes on Jewish life and are using humor to help listeners become more ...
Just over a decade ago, renegade composer and saxophonist John Zorn set out to redefine Jewish music with an ambitious set of pieces he called the "Masada Songbook." There are now over 200 pieces in ...
Not long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Cantor Jamie Marx of Temple Sholom in Broomall came to a couple of local music professionals with what he identified as a problem that needed solving.
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The enduring popularity of Christian rock is hardly news: for years now, churches in the U.S. and elsewhere have been attracting worshippers with music performed in all kinds of non-liturgical forms, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorus (Frank Wild/Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra) Jewish music is often reduced to a handful ...
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic will focus on Jewish music and culture with two events in February. “Klezmer & Kabbalah,” a free lecture and Q&A, is Wednesday, Feb. 4, at 7 p.m. at Temple ...
(New York Jewish Week) — An Orthodox Jewish music festival will take place in Bethel, New York in August — at the very same location where the iconic Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place in August of ...