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Liona and Serena strings: ‘Sefarad, Sephardic music in ancient Spain’

November 19, 2019/ByJewish Website/InRincón Sefaradí/0 Comment

Liona & Serena Strings emerged in 2013 making versions of Brazilian, Spanish, Hebrew, African and Arab songs, to gradually develop their own identity as a group. Being Hebrew and living in Spain, Liona leads the group towards what is its musical essence and focuses it on Hebrew and Jewish music originated in Spain and the […] Read More

Jack Black, Flaming Lips and Haim among those to join Hanukkah album

November 18, 2019/ByJNS/InEvents, News/0 Comment

A holiday-inspired music album titled “Hanukkah+” will be released on Nov. 22 and feature a collection of Jewish classics and originals from artists, including Haim, the Flaming Lips, Jack Black and Yo La Tengo, The Rolling Stone reported. The album, produced by Grammy-winning music supervisor Randall Poster, will be released via Verve Forecast, with a vinyl release following on Dec. 13. […] Read More

The Nigun. A mystical musical prayer introduced by Hasidic Judaism

November 12, 2019/ByDR. JAMES LOEFFLER/InArticles, Music/0 Comment

“There are gates in heaven that cannot be opened except by melody and song.”—Attributed to Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady, founder of Chabad From the time of its emergence in the 18th century, the Hasidic movement turned to music and dance as powerful forms of Jewish religious expression. One result was the Hasid ic nigun (Hebrew for “melody”; plural nigunim), a new genre […] Read More

Oz Tischazek LIVE! MK Production ft. Yiddish Nachas & Boruch Yidi Gross Music | אידיש נחת – אז תתחזק

November 12, 2019/ByJewish Music Reporter/InYiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Oz Tischazek, the new song off the latest Yiddish Nachas hit album: Mizmor Shir, composed by the legendary Yossi Green, is now being beautifully performed live on stage at a recent Bar Mitzvah in Upstate, NY by the talented Yiddish Nachas boys choir – with solos by Moshy Kraus and the magical voices of child […] Read More

Here It Comes! Herzlich 2 – Eli Hertzlich’s New Album After Four Years!

November 12, 2019/ByJewish Music Reporter/InCD of The Week/0 Comment

Herzlich 2 – Eli Herzlich‘s New Album Is Coming To Music Stores In Israel, The US And Will Be Available For Download And Listening To All International Streaming Services.⁣ ⁣ In An Era Where Albums Are Coming Out At Singles Pace, Eli Herzlich And His Personal Director Israel Lubin Do It A Little Differently. Thorough […] Read More

Upcoming Concert: Ikh Zing – The Yiddish Tradition

November 12, 2019/ByJewish Website/InEvents, Featured/0 Comment

Dear Friends: Join me and pianist, Pablo Zinger, Saturday, December 7th at 7:30 PM at the historic Metropolitan Playhouse in NYC for an intimate presentation of “IKH ZING: The Yiddish Tradition” I would love to see you there! Warmest regards, Nicole Read More

Trio Sefardi. Sharing The Sephardic Music Tradition

November 10, 2019/By/InRincón Sefaradí/0 Comment

Founded in January 2010, Trio Sefardi is a confluence of three performers who share a love of, and wide-ranging experience with Sephardic music, playing with La Rondinella, the Western Wind, and National Heritage Fellowship honoree Flory Jagoda. Washington Post chief music critic Ann Midgette praised the group’s “lovely and luminous performance of Sephardic songs” and vocalist Susan Gaeta’s voice […] Read More

Save the Date! “From Babies to Bubbies”, Yiddish concert, June 14, 2020

November 6, 2019/ByJewish Website/InEvent Announcements and Recaps/0 Comment

Save the date! FROM BABIES TO BUBBIES – A LIFETIME IN YIDDISH MUSIC performed by The Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor Seth Weinstein, Pianist ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS PROVIDED Sunday, June 14, 2020 3:00 p.m. Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York City Tickets will go on sale in the winter. […] Read More

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Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival recreates the music of historic Zimro Ensemble

November 5, 2019/ByDAVID RULLO | STAFF WRITER/InFeatured, News/0 Comment

Formed in 1918 in St. Petersburg, Russia, by the clarinetist Simeon Bellison, the Zimro Ensemble introduced the world to Jewish concert works created during the previous decade. This innovative and exotic music combined folk themes and liturgical works to create a music that was proudly nationalistic with strong Zionist themes. The sextet’s name spoke to […] Read More

Yiddish Classical Music In America

November 5, 2019/ByALEX WEISER /InYiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

There is a saying that a language is a dialect with an army and a navy. Yiddish, the historic language of Central and East European Jewry, never had either and suffered miscategorization as a jargon and corruption of German. On the contrary, Yiddish is an extraordinarily rich language with a remarkable literary and folk culture. […] Read More