Music
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 wanted members of his Pikesville day school’s choir to sing 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
by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Nov 13, 2019 | Arts & Life, Music
After six years of sold-out concerts at the Stony Run Friends Meeting House, the Ken & Brad Kolodner Quartet and Charm City Junction are taking their show on the road. The two bands will perform their brand of what Ken Kolodner calls “progressive old-time music”... read more
by Stephen Silver | Sep 10, 2019 | Art, Arts & Life, Books, Music, Performing Arts, The Arts
Jewish summer camp is a crucial part of the American Jewish experience. Many Jewish adults, even in their later years, often remember the names of kids in their cabins from when they were 11 years old. More than six decades ago, one of those cabins contained a couple... read more
by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Sep 5, 2019 | Art, Arts & Life, Fashion, Film & TV, Fun, Museum, Music, Performing Arts, The Arts, Uncategorized, Visual Arts
We get it. The end of summer can be bittersweet. The days get shorter, the temps are cooler, school’s back in session and the pace picks up immeasurably. But fall is also a season of great beginnings. The High Holidays mark the beginning of the Jewish new year,... read more
by Rafael Alvarez | Aug 13, 2019 | Art, Arts & Life, Music, Performing Arts, The Arts
The miracle of Harbor East is not just the skyscrapers going up faster than the way Anthony Marinelli, the last of the old-time Little Italy bakers, used to churn out bread once upon a time. It’s the appearance of an authentic jazz club — think Ron Carter, Abdullah... read more
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