Brooding, elegiac, melancholic, warm and uplifting have been adjectives used to describe the late James Horner’s music.
Growing up in a family of lawyers, James Ginsburg’s path might have seemed inevitable.
Clarinetist Michael Winograd, accordionist Patrick Farrell and bassist Benjy Fox-Rosen have carved out a unique niche in the larger klezmer shtetl as the Yiddish Art Trio.
\”You Gotta Love the Life” is the title track of Melissa Manchester’s latest album and a kind of personal and spiritual mantra.
“Jewish Afrobeat” almost sounds like an oxymoron.
Israeli urban legend has it that great musicians from the former Soviet Union who made aliyah first had to pick up brooms instead of instruments, working as street sweepers as they sought work in their talents.
It may be hard to believe there was a time when George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” now a durable fixture of the American and international concert repertory, was thought of as suspect — an unclassifiable mix of concert music and jazz whose popularity seemed offensive to highbrow audiences.
Kinky Friedman, the legendary “Texas Jewboy” country singer and raconteur, has recorded his first studio album in 32 years.
The acclaimed Hungarian-born pianist András Schiff, a part-time London resident who was knighted last year, returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall on Oct. 18 for a recital of late works by Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert.
What do Madonna, Vampire Weekend, Usher, the Plain White T’s and Justin Bieber have in common?
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