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…
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…
As Jeremy Sassoon undertakes a run of his show MOJO: Musicians of Jewish Origin at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, we caught up with the British Jewish singer and pianist to find out what music offers that psychiatry doesn’t, his worst and best performances and what’s next for the…
Jeremy Sassoon’s brilliant tour of Jewish singers and songwriters takes us on a journey of music that's embedded in our hearts and souls. Opening with Gershwin's dramatic 1924 'Rhapsody in Blue', the singer and pianist…
Australian musical director, performer and composer Stewart D’Arrietta (keyboard), along with bass player David Demus Donnelly, gives an overview of the life and work of the late great musician Leonard Cohen. Former lawyer…
“Maureen, you look lovely this morning,” utters my computer. Once again, I’m on Zoom, but it’s not a work meeting I’m joining. No, what I’m transfixed by today is the grace and elegance of an elderly woman sitting in a wheelchair, her arms and upper body swaying in time to…