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Volume 18: Psalms and Canticles
May 7, 2013
The subject of Volume 18 from the Milken Archive of Jewish Music: The American Experience may be secular Jewish choral art in America, but the story behind the selections goes deeper than that. A lot deeper. The history of Jewish choral music stretches back to antiquity. Some of the earliest...
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Volume 19: Out of the Whirlwind
March 5, 2013
Can one fashion art from unspeakable evil? That conundrum lies at the heart of Volume 19 from the Milken Archive of Jewish Music: The American Experience. And it is one with which many American Jewish artists have wrestled. "Is it possible to write songs about Auschwitz, or, even more important,...
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Volume 12: Legend of Toil and Celebration
February 5, 2013
Imagine what would happen if millions of aliens—industrious, adaptable, and not entirely English-speaking—suddenly landed in the United States and began remaking both themselves, and the country as a whole. That's essentially what happened during the last two decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th, when...
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Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck’s Passion For “The Brotherhood of Man” Will Live On
December 5, 2012
Dave Brubeck, one of the best known and loved jazz artists of all time, died today at age 91, just one day shy of his 92nd birthday. In a career that spanned more than six decades, Brubeck was celebrated as a performer, band leader and composer. The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s “Take...
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Volume 9: The Art of Jewish Song
November 6, 2012
If you were looking for an alternative title for Volume 9 from the Milken Archive of Jewish Music: The American Experience, you could do worse than to borrow a line from the musical satirist Tom Lehrer. "As someone remarked to Schubert," Lehrer once sang, "take us to your lieder." The...
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Volume 14: Golden Voices in the Golden Land
September 4, 2012
They played to sold-out crowds across the country, toured internationally, and appeared regularly on the radio. The most popular commanded staggering concert fees, made hundreds of recordings, and drew zealous fans from Jewish and non-Jewish circles alike. They were the cantors, or hazzanim, of the Golden Age of cantorial music...
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Volume 6: Echoes of Ecstasy
July 2, 2012
"Music," the noted guitarist and philosopher Jimi Hendrix once said, "is my religion." It's a fine credo. And as Volume 6 in the Milken Archive of Jewish Music: The American Experience demonstrates, it is also a very Hassidic one. In America, Hassidic Jews are often viewed as the Jewish equivalent...
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Not So Still Life, With Music: The Milken Archive of Jewish Music Presents Paintings by Ralph Gilbert
April 11, 2012
What: Talking about music, it has been said, is like dancing about architecture. But how about painting about music? In Not So Still Life, With Music: The Milken Archive of Jewish Music Presents Paintings by Ralph Gilbert, a series of 20 oil paintings explores a vast repertoire of music reflecting the scope and...
Volume 8: Sing Unto Zion!
April 10, 2012
As inspiration goes, it's hard to beat the birth of a nation. So proves Volume 8 from the Milken Archive of Jewish Music: The American Experience. The music presented in Sing Unto Zion! In Praise of a National Jewish Home covers a lot of ground, from original settings of traditional...
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Volume 1: Jewish Voices in the New World
February 7, 2012
In its newest multimedia volume, The Song of Prayer in Colonial and 19th-Century America, the Milken Archive of Jewish Music tackles the oldest American Jewish music in existence. It is music of the Western Sephardi tradition, a legacy of sacred song that was carried to the shores of colonial America...
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