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At a time when the relationship between African Americans and American Jews seems largely irrelevant to the national conversation, the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation is directing its gaze back at a different era. Not the early 1990s, when tensions between the two communities exploded into riots in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights, but to the days …
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Mitch Miller, the great producer, arranger, and musician passed away aged 99. The Idelsohn Society’s David Katznelson remembered him in the New York Times. Read the article here.…
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We’re less than two months away from the official release of Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations, coming out September 14, and the reviews are starting to come in. Sonya Alexander of Examiner.com calls Black Sabbath “the first compilation of its kind . . a jewel of a musical fervor,” and …
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If you’re in NYC this weekend, check out this awesome event at Governors Island, led by Regine Basha, friend of the Idelsohn Society.
This Saturday, July 17th, from 12-4pm, Regine is hosting a tutorial on ‘Tuning Baghdad’, related to the field recordings she had done with elderly Baghdadi musicians of the 1940s-a time when Jews, …
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Save Kutsher’s. To many of the musicians we salute, it was the Madison Square garden equivalent of its day. The place is still stunning. Like taking a time machine back to 1962. Do it. Do it.
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