De\’or and Bar offer more than just technical mastery of their musical genres. Their performances evoke a sense of prayer, soul and expression that stir the heart.
If you\’re of a certain vintage, the lyrics to \”Day by Day,\” the memorable song from the legendary pop musical \”Godspell,\” come fairly easily to mind — even 30 years after the show\’s debut.
It\’s only in recent decades that \”children\’smusic\” has mushroomed into a separate growth industry, complete withits own concert tours, TV tie-in shows and recognizable stars.
To some of us who were in college in the early 1960s, the nameTom Lehrer comes, in our pantheon, just below the Almighty andsomewhere above the Beatles.
Chances are, there are not many singer-songwriters whose oeuvre contains subjects as disparate as the \”Shecheyanu\” and a visit to the dentist. But such is the nature of Craig Taubman\’s career.
At the Dixieland Jubilee in Sacramento, the annual super bowl of jazz, the band that got the most ecstatic reception a couple of years ago was cradled a few thousand miles east of New Orleans.\n\nIt was the Jerusalem Jazz Band, whose members hail each other by such fine old Southern names as Boris, Mika, Shmulik, Stanislav and Aaron.
Marcia Seligson is the prime mover and shaker behind Reprise, a new theater organization determined to mount local, first-class revival productions of Broadway musicals.
Shortly after the Oslo peace process got underway, composer Nabil Azzam met with Yasser Arafat and offered the Palestinian leader a new national anthem for his nascent Palestinian Authority.\n
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