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לזכר דזשעניע פֿײַערמאַן: הערט איר נוסח פֿונעם ליד, „קינדער־יאָרן‟

June 10, 2021/ByJewish Website/InFeatured, Music/0 Comment

די וואָך איז אָנגעקומען די טרויעריקע ידיעה, אַז די זינגערין זשעניע פֿײַערמאַן איז אַוועק אין דער אייביקייט צו 96 יאָר. צווישן די ווידעאָס פֿון פֿײַערמאַנס אויפֿטריטן, וואָס מע האָט לעצטנס געטיילט אויף פֿייסבוק, איז איינער פֿון זיי אַ קאָנצערט, וואָס זי האָט געמאַכט מיט דער ייִדישער גרופּע, Jewrythmics, אין 2012. אינעם ווידעאָ זינגט פֿײַערמאַן, דעמאָלט שוין […] Read More

Hershey Felder as Sergei Rachmaninoff with J Anthony Crane as Czar Nicholas II in Nicholas, Anna & Sergei

Music Rises Like A Phoenix

May 26, 2021/ByEric George Tauber/InArticles/0 Comment

Telling the story of someone’s life without turning it into a thick biography is the art of the raconteur. The art is to seize upon a single, defining moment and work from there. Maestro Hershey Felder takes us to the deathbed of the famed composer Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff in Nicholas, Anna & Sergei: A new musical […] Read More

Shavout Songs

May 14, 2021/ByJewishWebsite/InEvents, Music/0 Comment

Enjoy these beautiful songs on themes associated with the holiday of Shavuot—the day we received the Torah. Read More

CD Compiles Music from Jewish and Other Ghettos

April 29, 2021/ByEileen Wingard/InCD of The Week, Music/0 Comment

Frank London, jazz trumpeter, band leader, co-founder of the Klezmatics, founder of the Klezmer Brass Allstars and co-founder of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, is one of the most important figures in the Klezmer Renaissance. A graduate of the New England Conservatory, majoring in Afro-American Music, he is also well schooled in World Music. Currently, he […] Read More

“Der Rebbe Elimelekh” collection, from the world to your home

April 22, 2021/BySaveTheMusic/InArticles, Music/0 Comment

Der Rebbe Elimelekh 25 versions from all over the world presented by SaveTheMusic. “Der Rebbe Elimelekh” is a Yiddish song written in 1927 by Moyshe Nadir and loosely based on the song Old King Cole. 1. Mongolia: Amalia Rubin – Der Rebbe Elimelech 2. Austria: Theodore Bikel – Der Rebe Elimelech 3. USA: Itzshak Perlman – As […] Read More

On 78th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Virtual Gathering

April 20, 2021/ByCongress for Jewish Culture/InMusic, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Each April 19th, we gather at the stone in the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Plaza in Riverside Park to mark the anniversary of the single greatest instance of Jewish armed resistance to the Holocaust with an academy remembering the victims and fighters of history’s greatest crime. Due to the pandemic, this is our second virtual academy. […] Read More

Going a capella for the period of Jewish mourning

April 19, 2021/ByDovid Zaklikowski/InArticles/0 Comment

When comedian Mendy Pellin posted on Twitter that “Sefira music is the audio equivalents of Pesach cereal,” he was referring to the recent trend of Orthodox singers to produce albums and singles of a capella music to listen to during the more than a month of mourning between Passover and Shavuot, known as sefirah, when […] Read More

Traditional passover songs for listening, singing and enjoying!

March 26, 2021/ByJewish Website/InFeatured, Music, Yiddish Song of the Week, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, is one of the three major pilgrimage festivals of ancient Israel and commemorates the Exodus from Egypt. Its name comes from the miracle in which God “passed over” the houses of the Israelites during the tenth plague. Centered on the family or communal celebration of the seder (ritual meal), Passover […] Read More

Dayenu in Yiddish in 4-part harmony sung by JPPC

Traditional Passover songs: Mu Adabru, Dayeynu & Oifn Nil / Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC

March 12, 2021/ByJewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC/InFeatured, Music, Yiddish Song of the Week, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

The Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus (JPPC) is a multigenerational forty-voice ensemble. We’re students, professionals, and robust retirees, all in love with singing and committed to promoting Yiddish language and culture through beautiful four-part harmony. Few of us are fluent, but we all learn together from the Yiddish vocal literature—traditional folk songs, settings of classic and […] Read More

Binyumen Schaechter at Merkin Concert Hall, November, 2017

Join the JPPC today: “Yiddish Song Workshop & Sing-along: Pesach (part 1 of 4)”

March 1, 2021/ByJewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC/InEvent Announcements and Recaps, Featured/0 Comment

Join the Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC for our Yiddish Song Workshop & Sing-along: Pesach (part 1 of 4) Led by Binyumen Schaechter via Zoom and YouTube Today, Monday, March 1 7 to 8 p.m. ET (New York time) parts 2 through 4: March 8, 15, 22 Zoom registration link for March 1 only: […] Read More