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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 561

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The Jerusalem Youth Chorus in their July 16, 2024 audition for 'America's Got Talent' with artistic director Micah Hendler in the bottom left foreground (Courtesy photo by: Trae Patton/NBC)
July 20, 2024, 12:29 am
Jerusalem Youth Chorus planned ‘Got Talent’ audition after Oct. 7
Israeli-Palestinian acappella group has been meeting throughout months of war, wanted reality show performance to have big impact
By Jessica Steinberg
A choir director works with singers from the the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the soloists of the Komische Oper Berlin during an acappella demo concert in Berlin, Germany on October 24, 2020 (STEFANIE LOOS / AFP)
December 18, 2023, 7:24 am
Citing Gaza war, prominent German choir drops Handel’s 1739 ‘Israel in Egypt’ song
Critics accuse the state-funded RIAS Chamber Choir of cowardice and cultural censorship over move, which occurs amid a rise in antisemitic assaults
By Canaan Lidor
HaZamir singers at the 2013 Gala Concert. (Courtesy HaZamir via JTA)
March 19, 2023, 10:58 am
How HaZamir youth choir serves as ‘an on-ramp to Jewish life’
450 teens in 36 chapters across the US and Israel take part in the musical program focused on pluralism, community and Zionism; they convene this weekend for a concert in NYC
By julia GERGELY
Zohar Sharon, left and Roi Oppenheim of The Revolution Orchestra, currently performing 'The Roosters -- The Remix' over several dates in March 2022 (Courtesy The Revolution Orchestra)
February 25, 2022, 2:48 pm
Israeli folk band ‘The Roosters’ get new life with orchestral mashup
The Revolution Orchestra, which specializes in reviving long-gone artists, is bringing a beloved 1960s act back to the stage, remixed with video and more
By Jessica Steinberg
Noa Gruman, left, in the latest Hellscore video, created by the heavy metal choir during Israel's third coronavirus lockdown (Courtesy Hellscore)
March 2, 2021, 8:44 pm
Heavy metal choir Hellscore sings through COVID hellscape
The only heavy metal choir in Israel — and possibly the world — recorded a Linkin Park cover ahead of the latest lockdown
By Jessica Steinberg
Camp Munkatch boys choir sings in front of the White House. (Screen capture/YouTube)
January 23, 2021, 12:33 am
‘Devotion so strong’: US Hasidic boys’ choir sings tribute to Trump
Song by New York campers praises ex-president for pardoning Jews, normalization deals
By Shira Hanau
Some of the 100 students from the Thelma Yellin school in Jerusalem, who got to take part in a virtual concert (Courtesy Facebook video screen grab)
March 26, 2020, 10:44 am
Teens record Mendelssohn on phones after virus cancels gig
A clever conductor at the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts uses technology to save part of his students’ canceled event
By Jessica Steinberg
The Great Gehenna Choir, singing at the 2016 Mekudeshet festival (Courtesy Great Gehenna Choir)
January 28, 2018, 12:31 pm
From human sacrifice to supermodels, the inspiration of the Great Gehenna Choir
Cooperative group of professional musicians bring own set of idiosyncratic ritual to every song they perform
By Jessica Steinberg
Maggie Wheeler, right, and Emile Hassan Dyer are the co-founders of the Golden Bridge Community Choir in Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Wheeler/JTA)
October 23, 2016, 4:21 pm
Oh. My. Gawd. Janice from ‘Friends’ is a choir director
Between acting gigs, nasal actress Maggie Wheeler stays upbeat with eclectic musical outlets
By Douglas Gladstone
Lehava leader Bentzi Gopstein (circled in red) arguing with a police officer at a choir performance in Jerusalem on September 22 2016. (screen capture: Channel 10)
September 23, 2016, 6:50 pm
Far-right extremists arrested for riot at Jerusalem choir event
Lehava chief Bentzi Gopstein, 2nd activist detained after disrupting performance by Armenian Church singers in finale of capital’s arts festival
By ToI Staff
The Singing Men from Georgia, USA at the Tower of David Museum (Courtesy Ricky Rachman)
October 13, 2015, 4:13 pm
The Christian choir that didn’t cancel
Sons of Jubal, from Georgia in the US, performs at the Tower of David Museum
By Jessica Steinberg
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