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Deshår Alhåt-Luna Negra Dance Theater, Chicago

June 19, 2019/By/InRincón Sefaradí/0 Comment

Choreography by Eduardo Vilaroin collaboration with singer Stefani Valadez. This section was performed to her live music at the Harris Theater in Chicago, IL. “Vilaro brilliantly employs Ladino songs, performed live in his Ritualistic new Deshar Alhat. He has set his piece to the gorgeous melodies and fierce percussion of Ladino songs, with the added […] Read More

Q&A: This composer hits the right notes on gun violence

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Musical scores for 250 hours of network television and a melodic tribute to California are among Ron Ramin’s accomplishments. Ramin, 65, lives in Mill Valley and is now composing an orchestral work he hopes will inspire multigenerational conversations about gun violence in America. J.: “Seventeen” is your work in progress, which chronicles the emergence of student […] Read More

Jewish Folk Chorus celebrates Yiddish music — and Yiddish values

June 19, 2019/By/InYiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

When the Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco started way back in 1926, all of the singers, not to mention most of the audience, understood the Yiddish lyrics they were singing. “It was a Yiddish-speaking group at that point,” explained Renee Enteen, the chorus‘ president. “It was very progressive, with members from various branches of the […] Read More

Introducing The Hit Duo From Johannesburg “Derech Achim”

June 19, 2019/By/InArticles, Featured, Music/0 Comment

Introducing a new and exciting duo from Johannesburg, South Africa named “Derech Achim.” The group is comprised of two brother in laws, Reuven Garber, and Jared Lazarus. The vision of Derech Achim is to compose music that first moves your soul before it moves your body, using a diverse palette of musical genres not traditionally […] Read More

Flory Jagoda is Sephardic Music’s 91-Year-Old Accordion-Playing Superstar

June 12, 2019/By/InRincón Sefaradí/0 Comment

Legend has it that when the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, they brought their house keys in the hope they would someday return. They also held onto their culture. And perhaps no one alive is guarding and communicating that culture like Flory Jagoda, the acclaimed 91-year-old folk musician who has been called “the keeper of the […] Read More

Sister Act: The Yiddish Song Stylings of the Marvelous Barry Sisters

June 12, 2019/BySTEPHEN RUTLEDGE/InYiddish Vinkl/1 Comment

As a gay kid in the 1960s, I loved to take my money earned from lawn mowing to J.J. Newberry’s and F. W. Woolworth’s to search the cut-out bins for LPs of Original Broadway Cast albums, soundtracks, and peculiar pop musicians, the more obscure the greater the thrill. For you kids, Newberry’s and Woolworth’s were 20th century variety stores, referred […] Read More

Martin Scorsese’s new documentary about Bob Dylan is now on Netflix

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It currently has 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s arguable that no other director uses music quite as well as the legendary Martin Scorsese and for his next documentary feature, the Oscar-winner is re-examining the life of an artist he knows very well. Aside from making documentaries like The Last Waltz and Shine A Light, Scorsese’s […] Read More

TICO features works of Dvorak, Alfven, Stern

June 12, 2019/By/InMusic, News/0 Comment

David Amos did unusual programming at TICO’s recent concert at Tifereth Israel Synagogue by opening with the longest work of the evening, Dvorak’s New World Symphony. However, the orchestra musicians seemed warmed up enough to plunge into this iconic music and bring forth the familiar melodies with all the energy they could muster. This work […] Read More

Sephardic Music

June 6, 2019/By/InRincón Sefaradí/2 Comments

Since 1492 when the Sephardic Jews were expelled from Spain, the Spanish-Jewish community was dispersed throughout North Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Europe. The emigration process was hard and lasted for generations. The historical and cultural evolution of each of these three groups was distinct and depended on the political conditions of the country […] Read More

Yiddishe Doires – Moshe Rosenbaum & Yumi Rosenbaum

June 6, 2019/By/InYiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Produced by: Hillel Kapnick Composed by: Yumi Rosenbaum MUSIC ARRANGED, PRODUCED & MIXED BY Hillel Kapnick MUSIC RECORDED AT Uptop Studios (Monsey, NY) VOCALS RECORDED AT Salt Studios (Melbourne) COVER DESIGN BY Australia Online Printing SOLOISTS Moshe Rosenbaum, Yumi Rosenbaum MEN’S CHOIR Duvid Pollack, Yumi Rosenbaum, Meir Yechiel Erlichster, Laizer Rosenbaum ADDITIONAL VOCALS Yakov & […] Read More