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Friday, January 2, 2009

MUSIC: A klezmer wedding in a European shetl circa 1910

A DJ and a music professor, using old recordings and new, recreate the typical sequence of tunes a klezmer band would play at every stage of a traditional wedding.

Friday, December 19, 2008

MUSIC VIDEO: Captain SmartyPants—‘The Driedel Song’

Captain Smartypants, a Seattle Men's Chorus Ensemble, makes the Yuletide fun in Home For the Holidays.

Friday, December 19, 2008

MUSIC VIDEO: ‘All I want for Christmas is Jews’

Relax -- it's comedy

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

L.A.‘s new Grammy Museum: A museum as muse

By Tom Teicholz

New downtown Grammy Museum reflects on music's importance, even during a time of industry uncertainty

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Collectors recover lost era of Jewish America on vinyl

By Lilly Fowler

While other music fanatics visit Hollywood's nightclubs to discover groundbreaking music, Kun rummages through countless bins at places like the National Council of Jewish Women's thrift shop looking for Jewish records of the past. But he hasn't done it alone.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Danny Goldberg: Hangin’ with the ‘geniuses’ of rock ‘n’ roll

By Karla S. Blume

No one ever said the life of a rock 'n' roll star was easy, and if you're the one responsible for their success, keeping an artist both successful and happy can be no less daunting

Monday, November 24, 2008

MUSIC VIDEO: Margot Leverett and Klezmer Mountain Boys

By The Web Guy

'2nd Ave. Breakdown' by Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Up-and-comer Dudamel takes on the Israel Philharmonic

By Rick Schultz

Dudamel, who will be 28 when he replaces Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director of the L.A. Philharmonic next year, considers Leonard Bernstein a role model.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Chasidic beatboxing keeps Matisyahu moving

By Matthue Roth

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

HaDag Nachash: Atypical Israel band hip-hops to Hollywood

By Dikla Kadosh

Its six members, known for their mix of funk, hip-hop, rock and reggae, rose to the top of the Israeli charts with smart, biting lyrics that reflect Israeli life and appeal to Israel's growing hip-hop scene. The songs often express a leftist point of view and are critical of everything Israeli.

Friday, November 7, 2008

MUSIC VIDEO: Panic Ensemble—‘Jewish Women (have more fun)‘

Panic Ensemble: Jewish Women (have more fun)

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

MUSIC VIDEO: Hannah Friedman: ‘Oh, Obama’

Writer (and singer) Hannah Friedman stayed up all night to bring us this song

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Music scholar calls tunes for Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra

By Rick Schultz

" . . . Music was within the Jewish tradition from biblical times," he said. "Music is a kind of connection between the human and the divine . . . "

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

MUSIC VIDEO: Hip-hop violinist Miri Ben-Ari Obama video —‘Stand With Me’

Miri Ben-Ari, a Grammy Award-Winning violinist, originally from Israel, presents her rendition of the national anthem. titled 'Stand With Me' -- a music video in support of Sen. Barack Obama.

Monday, October 6, 2008

MUSIC: ‘That Yemenite Kid’  Diwon makes a mix tape—in Yiddish

By Daniel Sieradski

Courtesy of Diwon, the artist formerly known as DJ Handler and otherwise known as the executive director of Modular Moods and Shemspeed.com, comes this fresh mix of pop, hip-hop, electronica and . . . Yiddish?

Monday, October 6, 2008

Ray Benson (Asleep at the Wheel): The biggest Jew in country music [VIDEO]

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

The Jewish king of country music is only now publicly revealing his Jewish identity

Saturday, September 20, 2008

VIDEO: Chazzan Chaim Adler—‘Kaddish’ @  Selichot services in Tel Aviv

By The Web Guy

Chazzan Chiam Adler, Chief cantor at Tel-Aviv's Great Synagogue, sings the Kaddish. Recorded at first Selichot service. September 21 2008 midnight. Great chazzanut and wonderful singing by the congregation. Towards the end, you can hear a little Kol Isha. Is that our videographer, Y227, up in the womens' balcony?

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

‘Mission’ accomplished for hybrid composer Lalo Schifrin—with new book and CD

By Rick Schultz

"It's the harmonies of Ravel and Debussy that attract jazz musicians," he said. "I once showed Dizzy Gillespie Ravel's 'Histoires naturelles' for voice and piano. He heard one passage and said, 'Oh, this will go well with Monk's 'Round Midnight.' From then on we had to play it with the Ravel chords."

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Women plot revenge against a sexist ‘70s boss in ‘9 to 5: The Musical’ (what a way to make a livin’)

By Shoshana Lewin Fischer

"It seems that in a musical you would get to know people less -- I actually think you get to know them more" -- Patricia Resnick, writer of "9 to 5"

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Documentary goes behind the music video with Chutzpah

By Naomi Pfefferman

"My big idea for the CD was, 'Let's give this to our families for Chanukah,'" Hyams said. "I never thought we'd get a record deal, because I figured 'This is stupid and Jewish and no one cares except us.'"

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

MUSIC VIDEO: Amonai Shamati—Moroccan High Holy Day Piyyut

Beautiful, pleading Sephardic High Holy Day piyyut recited on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur before Amidah. Tradtional Moroccan melody sung by Eyal Bitton.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Cancer gives musician a new song

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner

This time, Charlie Lustman hadn't come to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for medical tests or to endure another round of chemotherapy. Despite having lost three-quarters of his jawbone, Lustman had come to celebrate, to inspire -- and to sing.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Master of horror Cronenberg ‘Flies’ into opera

By Pat Sierchio and Naomi Pfefferman

Cronenberg will direct the United States premiere of the opera based on what is perhaps his best-known work: his 1986 remake of the 1958 film, "The Fly," which in turn was based on a 1957 George Langelaan short story.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Jazzman Frishberg charts own tuneful territory

By Kirk Silsbee

One of the great joys of L.A. jazz, from the mid-1970s to the mid-'80s, was the blossoming of jazz pianist Dave Frishberg into a singer-songwriter of quirky, yet warmly satisfying, material.