Music
by Aliza Friedlander | Mar 25, 2020 | Arts & Life, Music, The Arts
It takes less than a minute of listening to Max Schwartz Bent’s new podcast, “Sound Tales,” to recognize his immense talent. What started as an experiment for Bent, a musician and beat boxer, has become a tapestry of stories, songs and sounds created only with... read more
by JTA | Feb 26, 2020 | Arts & Life, Music
By Lior Zaltzman I grew up with Pink. The Jewish pop singer’s first two albums, “Can’t Take Me Home” and “Missundaztood,” came out during bat mitzvah season for me, and her songs truly got the party started. Yes, they were catchy, but they were also vulnerable, wise... read more
by Gabe Friedman, JTA | Feb 12, 2020 | Arts & Life, Music
Sammy Miller and his girlfriend, Misha, grew up in vastly different cultures. Miller was raised Jewish in suburban Los Angeles, while Misha was raised Muslim in Karachi, Pakistan, and moved to the United States when she was 12. Miller also happens to be a musician, a... read more
by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Jan 30, 2020 | Art, Arts & Life, Fun, Museum, Music, Performing Arts, The Arts, Visual Arts
Bagels and banjos. Hebrew and harmonicas. Isaac Bashevis Singer and Pete Seeger. You could say that Jewish culture and the American folk music tradition are a natural fit. Do banjos and Yiddishkeit mix? (File photo) The staff at the Jewish Museum of Maryland realized... read more
by Linda L. Esterson | Jan 15, 2020 | Art, Arts & Life, Film & TV, Music, Performing Arts, The Arts
Like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Harrison Fribush had a dream. A Krieger Schechter eighth grade student, Harrison dreamed of members of his Pikesville day school’s choir singing in harmony with their peers from the Cardinal Shehan School, a private Catholic school in... read more
by Staff Report | Jan 8, 2020 | Art, Arts & Life, Music, Performing Arts, The Arts
The final recordings of the late Jewish rapper Mac Miller will be released on Jan. 17, his family announced in a statement. Miller, 26, who was born Malcolm James McCormick, died Sept. 7, 2018, of an accidental drug overdose while in the middle of recording an album.... read more
by Gabe Friedman, JTA | Dec 24, 2019 | Arts & Life, Music
A few years ago, jazz guitarist Peter Curtis was rehearsing for a Christmas concert that involved a choir, but he needed to find a song to play for a solo interlude. Curtis, who is Jewish and based in Southern California, was far from a Christmas song connoisseur, so... read more
by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Nov 25, 2019 | Arts & Life, Music, The Arts
Dr. Jonathan S. Leshnoff, a local composer and pedagogue, was nominated Nov. 20 for a 2019 Grammy Award in the Best Classical Compendium category for “Symphony No. 4: Heichalos.” The CD was released by Chandos Records last May in honor of Yom HaShoah, or... read more
by Gabe Friedman, JTA | Nov 22, 2019 | Art, Arts & Life, Music, Performing Arts, The Arts
Love him or hate him, rapper Kanye West has done nothing if not evolve over the course of his career. He has cycled through mainstream hip-hop, auto-tuned singing, soulful sampling, epic egotistical commentary and — as he would happily tell... read more
by Ron Kampeas, JTA | Nov 20, 2019 | Arts & Life, Music
The son of celebrated Canadian poet-singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen is releasing a new album of his late father’s music. The album, titled “Thanks for the Dance,” is largely a meditation on Cohen’s old standbys of spirituality, sexuality, politics and mortality. It is... read more
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