Lisa Loeb’s Album for Pandemic Times: ‘A Simple Trick to Happiness’
Loeb connects people during a time of isolation with upbeat acoustic melodies and calming, feel-good vibes.
Loeb connects people during a time of isolation with upbeat acoustic melodies and calming, feel-good vibes.
For 2,000 years, Jewish music has been a hybrid compounded of elements picked up from our neighbors. Salamone Rossi created Italian Baroque settings of Hebrew texts. Chasidic niggunim drew on Viennese waltz music and Eastern European military marches. Sulzer and Lewandowski wrote like German Protestants. In the Diaspora, Jewish music has always been a hyphenate.