Austrian-born British violinist Erich Gruenberg has passed away – aged 95. A former 1st prize winner at the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition, throughout his career Mr Gruenberg served as Concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – and held a long term Professorship on faculty at the Royal Academy of Music. “As well […]
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Vera Lynn, who sang the songs that touched the hearts and lifted the spirits of Britons from the bomb-blitzed streets of London and Coventry to the sands of North Africa and the jungles of Burma during World War II, died on Thursday at her home in Sussex, England. She was 103. Her death was confirmed […]
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די יערלעכע „פּוליצער־פּריזן“, וואָס ווערן אויסגעטיילט פֿון קאָלומביע־אוניווערסיטעט, זענען מסתּמא די חשובֿסטע אַמעריקאַנער פּרעמיעס לכּבֿוד דער אַרבעט פֿון זשורנאַליסטן. קאָלומביע־אוניווערסיטעט טיילט אויך אויס „פּוליצערס“ פֿאַר אויסגעצייכנטע ביכער און מוזיקאַלישע קאָמפּאָזיציעס. להיפּוך צו כּמעט אַלע באַרימטע פּריזן אַזוי ווי די אָסקאַרס און גרעמיס, וואָס לאָזן וויסן פֿון פֿריִער וועלעכע אַקטיאָרן צי מוזיקער מע האָט נאָמינירט, ווייסט […]
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Fiddler On The Roof is moving from Broadway to the big screen. MGM is gearing up to produce a new movie adaptation of the hit musical, with Thomas Kail set to direct. Kail is known as the director of Hamilton, which is finally getting released on Disney+ in July. Kail will be working from a script penned […]
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The Milken Archive began as a relatively modest endeavor in 1990, aiming to preserve a handful of liturgical and concert works comprising ten or fifteen albums. Today, the Milken Archive encompasses more than 600 works by 200 composers and crosses genres ranging from folk and Yiddish theater to classical music and jazz. We’ve assembled our […]
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Hello everyone, Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi have been nominated for a SD Music Award in the ” Best World Music” category. Please take a moment and vote for us. You can vote more than once (but only one time per day) for Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi. Read below the text that is underlined which will […]
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Jerusalem’s Hassadna Wind Orchestra has been selected to perform at New York’s Carnegie Hall in April as part of the New York International Music Festival. The teen orchestra, consisting of 48 high school students, is one of six ensembles from around the world selected to perform at the famed New York venue. At the festival, […]
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“We opened the festival with a concert that is entirely a message of peace and dialogue achieved through music,” said Jacob Ben Simon, the orchestra’s general manager. Photo: The Kasbah of Aït Benhaddou in southern Morocco, built by the Berbers from the 14th century onwards. Credit: Donar Reiskoffer via Wikimedia Commons. An Israeli orchestra from […]
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Nostalgia, as the worldy-wise might observe, ain’t what it used to be. Noam Zylberberg takes that line, too, even though his principal form of artistic expression delves into the past, the Polish past to be exact. Zylberberg, whose grandparents hail from Poland, reverted to his roots and has been a resident of Warsaw for the […]
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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. […]
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