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(JTA) — When my wife and I were planning our wedding, we thought it might be cool to hire a klezmer band. This was during the first wave of the klezmer revival, when groups like The Klezmatics and The ...

Until Yoni Battat '13 was a teenager, Jewish music meant klezmer. In his synagogue and at his Jewish school outside New Haven, Connecticut, he heard and played the Eastern European-style folk music.

Shelton Jewish Festival will return Sunday with live music and family fun and an opportunity to see your name written in ...

In 1850, famed German opera composer Richard Wagner published an essay titled “Jews in Music,” where he argued that Jews are polluting Europe, including through music. Opera houses and concert halls ...

(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — There is a Grammy Award for just about every kind of music — from pop to metal to New Age to Contemporary Christian — but there’s no Jewish ...

Ben Sidran has established himself as a formidable talent in the jazz world as both a pianist and a songwriter. He has recorded almost forty solo albums and appeared as a session musician for artists ...

Many of us – of the predominantly Ashkenazi English-speaking community, that is – would probably cite some lilting bittersweet klezmer air or other, or might go so far as to venture into cantorial ...

The song is called “I Hate A Cappella,” and the joke is that it was composed and performed by an a cappella group, The Richter Scales. The group, comprised largely of Ivy League tech workers in San ...

Jews have done inestimable service to music. Never, even in its most fanatical moments, has Anti-Semiticism presented any serious argument to the contrary. Now as if to prove that which has needed no ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by G. Schirmer will publish more than 400 pieces by Jewish composers, allowing them to be heard on a wider scale. By Javier C. Hernández As fascism ...

Jewish music is often reduced to a handful of clichés: klezmer music with its sliding clarinets, "Hava Nagila" or maybe a tune from "Fiddler on the Roof." But Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra's series ...