Although George Gershwin composed hit songs for Broadway, he also blended jazz and classical elements in varying degrees in his longer compositions. He had a unique melodic gift and his many songs, and other compositions, brought special joy and optimism to his audiences…
Much of the film Maestro is shot in black and white, but it opens in full colour. “I miss her terribly,” the older Leonard Bernstein says, of his late wife Felicia. At the piano he plays 'Postlude' (adeptly performed by Bradley Cooper), from his opera A Quiet Place, where the son mourns the loss…
Mizrahi Jewish musician David 'Dudu' Tassa has teamed up with Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist in internationally renowned British rock outfit Radiohead. The pair became firm friends when Tassa's band opened for Radiohead…
In 2009, a few years after graduating from the Jerusalem Academy of Music, Israeli composer and conductor Tom Cohen founded the Jerusalem Orchestra East & West (JOEW). His mission? To create “a new musical…
The a cappella choir Mosaic Voices has released a beautiful and moving video for their new song ‘Omnam Kein’ ('It is indeed true'), to mark the Jewish High Holy day of Yom Kippur. ‘Omnam Kein’ is a key prayer at the Kol Nidre service that takes place on the eve of Yom Kippur…
This month Leonard Cohen would have turned 88 and to mark the occasion, Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza is releasing a trio of Cohen covers. The first, released on the bard’s birthday, 21 September, will be the lilting love letter that is ‘So Long, Marianne’. Following this a month later…