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A New Album Reaches Out and Raises Hope
February 9, 2021
Our first new album in five years is now available for purchase or free streaming on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music and most major digital music platforms.Many great stories start when a hero speaks up or acts—often at great personal...
A Timely New Album and Giveaway
January 26, 2021
The Milken Archive is proud to announce that we are releasing a new album on February 5th: I Will Not Remain Silent - Reach Out, Raise Hope, Change Society by Bruce Adolphe. To share our excitement, we are giving away the...
Happy Festival of Lights and Day of Human Rights
December 8, 2020
Hanukkah starts at sundown this Thursday, Dec. 10th, and there is much to celebrate—and to contemplate—this year. We thought we'd share a few of highlights with you.Celebrating Human RightsHanukkah is in many ways a celebration of human rights and freedoms...
Announcing the New Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
December 3, 2020
It's an exciting day for the future of Jewish music in America and around the world. With a generous grant from Milken Archive founder Lowell Milken, UCLA has opened North America’s first permanent academic home for the study of music...
Albums and Artwork Hanukkah Giveaway
November 17, 2020
Hanukkah is a time of miracles and a celebration of justice. It's a holiday that reminds us how important it is to stand up, even against overwhelming odds, for freedom, rights and equality—themes that have been powerfully relevant in 2020.As...
Tovah Feldshuh: The Archive as Alexandria
October 21, 2020
Tovah Feldshuh hasn't let the COVID pandemic slow her down. The star of stage and screen has used the time to continue telling her story—and that of her mother—in a new book currently in the works.Now that her first draft...
A Maestro's Mind and Musings on Jewish Music
October 6, 2020
When maestro Kenneth Kiesler worked on the Milken Archive recordings with composers like David Schiff, David Amram and Paul Schoenfield, he couldn't anticipate the many profound effects it would have on his life and career.For music lovers, these collaborations resulted...
Hear O Israel: A High Holy Days Giveaway and Video Premiere
September 2, 2020
Whether you’ll be attending Rosh Hashanah services in person or virtually this year, one thing will hold true as it does with every service: the Sh’ma will be recited. Along with other designated occasions for its recital, the Sh’ma is...
Sacred Jewish Music at the Crossroads
August 5, 2020
There are moments of convergence in history that seem to be at the intersection of the past and present when—especially in the arts—all things are possible and everything is questioned.Fifty years ago in 1970, American Jewish culture and Jewish sacred...
Bonita Boyd, Leonard Bernstein and an Israeli Flutist
July 14, 2020
In his program notes for Ḥalil (the Hebrew word for flute), Leonard Bernstein wrote: “This work is dedicated ‘To the Spirit of Yadin and to His Fallen Brothers.’ The reference is to Yadin Tannenbaum, a nineteen-year-old Israeli flutist who, in...
