Music
by Emily Burack | Nov 24, 2020 | Art, Arts & Life, Music, Performing Arts, The Arts
This year’s Grammy Awards will almost certainly be different from past years, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. But despite the lack of details surrounding the ceremony, it’s still taking place, and as usual several Jewish artists made the nominations list, which... read more
by Marcy Oster | Sep 30, 2020 | Art, Arts & Life, Film & TV, Music
As it turns out, when the Grammy Award-winning singer Helen Reddy sang her feminist anthem “I Am Woman,” she could’ve also sang “I Am Jewish.” Who knew? The Australian-born Reddy, who died on Sept. 29 in Los Angeles at age 78, converted to... read more
by JTA | Sep 30, 2020 | Arts & Life, Music
By Joe Baur What if the great Yiddish poets, literary figures and composers of yesteryear played electric guitars and used amps back in the shtetl? That’s the question that singer Sasha Lurje and her bandmates in Forshpil asked themselves a decade ago in Latvia when... read more
by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Sep 7, 2020 | Arts & Life, Museum, Music, Performing Arts, The Arts, Visual Arts
Get your creative juices flowing this fall with these virtual arts and cultural events: VISUAL ARTS Virtual Happy Hour with Francisco Loza | September 16, 5:30 p.m.American Visionary Art Museumavam.org Discover the creative process of Mexican press yarn artist... read more
by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Aug 4, 2020 | Arts & Life, Music
Celebrated concert pianist, conductor, pedagogue and longtime Peabody Institute faculty member Leon Fleisher died of cancer on Aug. 2. A Baltimore resident since 1959, he was 92. “With the passing of Leon Fleisher, the music world has lost one of its towering... read more
by Marcy Oster | Jun 5, 2020 | Art, Arts & Life, Music, Performing Arts, The Arts
Kiss frontman Gene Simmons — born Chaim Witz in Haifa to Hungarian-Jewish immigrants — says his late mother almost never spoke about her experiences during the Holocaust, including her time spent in Nazi concentration camps. But a German newspaper recently... read more
by Gabe Friedman, JTA | Jun 2, 2020 | Art, Arts & Life, Film & TV, Fun, Music, Performing Arts, The Arts, Visual Arts
If you haven’t heard of the comic rapper Lil Dicky, and you are at least tangentially interested in rap or comedy, you should familiarize yourself with him. Of course, you’ll need to be OK dealing with a good amount of blatant vulgarity. You read his name... read more
by Staff Report | May 20, 2020 | Arts & Life, Food & Entertainment During The Pandemic, Music
Lo Irah rah is Hebrew for do not fear. It’s also the name of a Jewish musical response to the COVID-19 pandemic led by Baltimorean David Lipsitz and featuring his friends and fellow vocalists, Jeremy Schonzeit, Ayton Sanders and Mordy Weinstein. David Lipsitz... read more
by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Apr 22, 2020 | Arts & Life, Music
At 34, Owings Mills native Jordan Goodman has already fulfilled many of his dreams. Now, he wants to help others fulfill theirs. A professional musician and licensed psychotherapist, Goodman, who lives in Remington, is founder of Beatwell, an initiative that creates... read more
by Aliza Friedlander | Mar 25, 2020 | Arts & Life, Food & Entertainment During The Pandemic, 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