When I was growing up, folk music was more than just a kind of quaint exotic pretty music to which people listened. It was also a vehicle through which people could ground themselves in the remnants of traditional cultures that were still able to survive the sensory distortion that was so present in modern technological […]
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“Ella Fitzgerald, wherever you are, I apologise in advance.” Billy Crystal gave this year’s Tonys a jolt of Jewish shtick when he coaxed the audience into a call-and-response Yiddish scat routine In a good-faith mockery of Fitzgerald’s own famous scat routine, Crystal, in character as his Mr Saturday Night character Buddy Young Jr., let loose […]
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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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הײַיאָר, בעת די וועלט מערקט אָפּ דעם 20סטן יאָרצײַט פֿון די טעראָריסטישע אַטאַקן אויפֿן וועלטהאַנדל־צענטער אין ניו־יאָרק, האָט דער פֿאָרווערטס פֿאַרבעטן די האָלענדישע ייִדישע זינגערין, לוסעט וואַן דען בערג, צו רעקאָרדירן די רירנדיקע „באַלאַדע פֿונעם 11טן סעפּטעמבער‟ אָנגעשריבן פֿון דער פּאָעטעסע, ביילע שעכטער־גאָטעסמאַן ז״ל. Click here to read full article.
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The Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus (formerly Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC) דער ייִדישער פֿילהאַרמאָנישער כאָר Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor Four Yiddish songs to honor The Fourth of July “Star-Spangled Banner” in Yiddish (with reverse translation back into English) “America the Beautiful” in Yiddish and English “America” (Yiddish Choral Music about Mount Rushmore) “Fourth of July”, a.k.a. […]
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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 […]
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Enjoy these beautiful songs on themes associated with the holiday of Shavuot—the day we received the Torah.
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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 […]
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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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