Park Square presents 'Words By… Ira Gershwin'
Park Square Theater presents Words By... Ira Gershwin and the Great American Songbook, which runs through Dec. 29. This is ...
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Max Raabe's gonna party like it's 1929
Max Raabe and the 12-piece Palast Orchester bring the music of a bygone era in Germany to the Dakota Jazz ...
They say there’s always magic in the air
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR In the 1960s, American pop music had an address: the Brill Building, 1619 Broadway, New York City. ...
Famous Jews in American music — from Irving Berlin to Matisyahu
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR It’s hard to imagine American popular song without the contributions of Jewish composers and lyricists. Names like ...
Gershwin’s Jewish soul music
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Jews and the American pop song
Pianist Les Block will present a show of music and history following Or Emet’s Humanistic Shabbat service on May 6 ...
Yiddish Farbrengen to be held Jan. 31
The next gathering of Yiddish Farbrengen will take place 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 31 at the Shaller Family Sholom Home ...
Jews wrote a big chunk of the Great American Songbook
David Lehman, the author of seven volumes of poetry, examines what is Jewish about American popular song, and how Jewish ...
Jewish tunesmiths wrote great American songs
Jewish chauvinism aside, it’s a fact that Jews composed the great majority of tunes that make up the body of ...
