Gracias a una traducción del tema musical de Bob Esponja, la comunidad judía sabe cómo recitar la canción en yiddish del programa infantil animado. La canción la creó Eddy Portnoy, asesor académico y director de exposiciones del Instituto YIVO para la Investigación Judía en Manhattan. La semana pasada, la hija de Portnoy puso el programa […]
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Una pequeña pero vital revolución musical ha tenido lugar en Israel. En las últimas dos décadas, un pequeño grupo de judíos mizrajíes (judíos de ascendencia del Medio Oriente y el norte de África) han regresado a sus raíces judías árabes y han comenzado a transformar la escena musical popular del país. La música israelí, dominada […]
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The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress has awarded commissions for new musical works to seven composers. The commissions are granted jointly by the foundation and the performing organizations that will present the world premiere performances of the newly composed works. Winning composers for 2021 and the groups co-sponsoring their commissions are […]
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Pregúntele a cualquier veterano amante del Yiddish, cuál es la canción yiddish más popular y conocida y la respuesta será invariablemente la misma : “Oifn pripetchik” , o sea “en el hornillo” una referencia a un sistema muy elemental de calefacción en los hogares de los judíos en Europa Oriental en el siglo XIX. Si […]
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Abie Toiber was Born in Mexico City; in a lapse of his early childhood was moved to USA, Israel and back to Mexico fomenting with this a global and multicultural sensibility. His father, a Dentist, academic and Bass player amateur inculcated the love for Rock music and artist like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, […]
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Fue un honor exponer sobre una parte de mi investigación musicológica en el congreso organizado por La SEMYR durante el año en que se conmemoran los 800 años de la Universidad de Salamanca, cuyos claustros albergaron a San Juan de la Cruz, Fray Luis de León, Francisco de Vitoria, Antonio de Nebrija, Bartolomé de las […]
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Thanks to the Jewish holiday of Shavuot and the Torah, Mount Sinai is the best-known mountain in Jewish history. If the husband-and-wife bluegrass team of Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff continue their climb through the music world, their Nefesh Mountain band may be the next mountain the Jewish and secular world is buzzing about. Their third full-length […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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