…   Excerpt from the film featuring rehearsals with Brave Old World, The Klezmer Conservatory Band, and The Klezmatics. In …

… He has been a member of, or performed with, such groups as  Brave Old World , the J oel Rubin Ensemble , and  Veretski Pass. Rubin …

… under the open skies, the first haircut for three-year-old boys, and processions with Torah scrolls. These are all … as the Ben Ish H ay, one of the luminaries of the Sephardic world in recent generations. [5] Among the more recent songs … sun/ By the merits of etc. Honest pioneers, young and old/ Whom have you here and what have you here/ In the honor …

… explanation of source or dating). With the exception of a brave account of Berlin and ragtime in the early years by … were written. I (like Kaplan and Bergreen) am 70 years old and grew up with Berlin’s songs on the radio. But a … on my own part, asking friends and acquaintances around the world (120 responses) which of Berlin’s melodies they knew …

… singing style. Yossef is not to be confused with his much older cousin, Yusuf Zaarur al-Kabbir (“the Great”, … with Zaarur’s daughter ), when Yossef was eight years old and had become passionate about music, he tried to build … recordings that became available in Baghdad after World war I. Besides the qanun, Zaarur learned to play other …

… to perform his songs. In 1947 he represented Israel at the 'World Congress of Music and Sound' in Paris, where his music …

… the present have generated a rather dense, one-hundred year old literature on the subject. This quest produced … “up-to-date” nor “revolutionary,” runs nowadays as a world tour . Baltsan’s text not only fails to acknowledge … on his heart during the singing --- to express his fervor, bravery and courage… To the ‘Shirei Yisrael’ of [Lord] Byron …

… all other classic Jewish sources. [1]  It has been retold by generation after generation of Jews in various … in Ashkenaz between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries (Goldschmidt 1965b, 18–19). These poems generally consist of … nineteenth century, and remained popular until the Second World War (Schleifer 1996). Yet it appears that some …