Cantor Josh Breitzer was taught to think of prayer music like a mountain. So when he and Cantor Rollin Simmons developed their plans for the year’s final Passover service at Congregation Emanu El, ...

From Baroque Italy to ancient Hebrew poetry, Philharmonia Baroque's "Jewish Nightlife" overturns easy ideas about what Jewish music is - and has been.

This article originally appeared on Kveller. When searching for songs for a playlist I was putting together for my kids on Spotify, I came across a tune — “Pana HaGeshem,” (“The Rain has Gone Away”) ...

Dancer Anani Dodji Sanouvi is surrounded by the cast during a 2014 rehearsal for John Adams' "The Gospel According to the Other Mary" at Walt Disney Concert Hall in L.A. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los ...

Not much Passover music arrived in this year’s mail so it’s difficult to speculate on the ebb and flow of certain kinds of Jewish music recordings, but it does seem that fewer holiday-specific records ...

On a recent evening, a group of Jewish women gathered at Chabad of Squirrel Hill to rehearse for an upcoming performance. It didn’t take the women long to learn the finale they will perform at “The ...

Until Yoni Battat '13 was a teenager, Jewish music meant klezmer. In his synagogue and at his Jewish school outside New Haven, Connecticut, he heard and played the Eastern European-style folk music.

It is difficult to decide if Mark Swed’s Perspective (“A Question for Passover,” March 24) is a review of a concert featuring Ernst Toch’s “Cantata of the Bitter Herbs” or an essay about all he might ...

The Jewish Bluegrass of Nefesh Mountain, Syrian Jewish music from Asher Shasho Levy, a selection of show tunes that reflects the influence Jewish composers continue to have on Broadway, klezmer music, ...