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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 528

Jewish composers

Richard Sherman speaks at the ceremony honoring the Sherman Brothers with the rename of Disney Studios Soundstage A at the World Premiere of Disney's "Christopher Robin" at the Walt Disney Studios, July 30, 2018, in Burbank, California. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)
May 26, 2024, 5:31 am
Richard Sherman, composer of Disney’s ‘Mary Poppins,’ ‘It’s a Small World,’ dies at 95
Along with his brother Robert, pair breathed life into decades of children’s classics such as ‘The Jungle Book’ and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ with catchy, award-winning tunes
By Mark Kennedy
Composer Andy Teirstein during a musical Bedouin trek in the Arava Desert. (Courtesy)
March 25, 2022, 1:40 pm
Podcast: Composer Andy Teirstein spins an audio odyssey in album ‘Restless Nation’
Conversation includes excerpts from new contemporary classical music album, inspired by a Bedouin camel trek in the Arava Desert and other global travels
By ToI Staff
Left: a portrait of Golda Meir in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market by Solomon Souza (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI); Right: Dame Maureen Lipman (Jay Brooks)
February 11, 2021, 3:37 am
Golda Meir given posthumous encore in debut of newly rediscovered musical
Celebrated UK actress Maureen Lipman to sing ‘Next Year in Jerusalem,’ title song in a never-seen show about the female Israeli PM, for Jewish Music Institute’s online gala Feb. 11
By Anne Joseph
Katharina von Schnurbein speaks at a conference of anti-Semitism envoys in Bucharest, Romania, June 17, 2019. (Shahar Azran/World Jewish Congress via JTA)
January 22, 2021, 1:33 pm
PODCAST: After 5 years, anti-Semitism czar says no improvement for EU Jews – yet
EU Commission’s first Coordinator on Combating Anti-Semitism Katharina von Schnurbein on the controversial IHRA definition and ‘deeply rooted’ hatred against European Jewry
By ToI Staff
Jonathan Goldstein with his wife Hannah Goldstein (Family Handout/PA Wire via the Jewish News)
August 30, 2019, 10:13 pm
UK Jewish composer, musician wife, infant daughter killed in plane crash
Bodies of Jonathan, Hannah and Saskia Goldstein found amid debris of aircraft that crashed in the Swiss alps
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Violinist Pinchas Zukerman and cellist Amanda Forsyth. (Cheryl Mazak)
August 3, 2019, 2:26 am
Israeli composer’s new double concerto is a gift to Zukerman — and the world
3 world-renowned Israeli expats meet at Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home Tanglewood to celebrate violinist Pinchas Zukerman’s birth with fresh addition to Classical canon
By Penny Schwartz
The cast in the revival of 'The Tsar Wants His Photograph Taken,' London, May 4, 2019. (Dr. Frank Abba Smith)
May 17, 2019, 4:53 pm
Kurt Weill operetta banned by the Nazis gets one-night-only revival in London
1928’s comic ‘The Tsar wants his photograph taken’ lampoons anarchists’ Jewish stereotypes even while connecting a modern researcher to his family’s roots
By Jenni Frazer
Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn, leads the 15th symphony concert during the Lucerne Festival in the concert hall in Switzerland, September 1, 2004. (Urs FlueelerKEYSTONE via AP, File)
February 28, 2019, 11:28 pm
Andre Previn, Oscar-winning Jewish composer, dies at 89
Renowned pianist and conductor who fled Nazi Germany as a child was best known for writing film scores for ‘Porgy and Bess’ and ‘My Fair Lady’
By Lindsey Bahr
The composer Julia Wolfe, shown in 2011, dedicates her new work 'Fire in My Mouth' to 'women who rose up to demand a more human existence.' (Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images/via JTA)
January 26, 2019, 1:37 am
The deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire inspires a contemporary composer
For three nights at Lincoln Center, Julia Wolfe’s ‘Fire in My Mouth’ is the centerpiece of a two-week outreach program examining the NYC’s immigrant roots
By Curt Schleier
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