Posts Tagged “Black Sabbath”

  • Johnny Mathis on “Kol Nidre”

    February 3rd, 2011 | Black Sabbath, Blog, Events | admin | No Comments

    Tonight, Johnny Mathis will be appearing at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco to discuss his life, his music, his hometown and his recording of “Kol Nidre”. If you can’t be there in person, check out the San Francisco Chronicle’s fantastic interview with the man himself. Read it here.…

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  • Album Release: Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations

    September 14th, 2010 | Black Sabbath, Past Events | admin | No Comments

    The Idelsohn Society is thrilled to announce that our latest album, Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations, will be released on September 14. Hear Johnny Mathis croon Yom Kippur songs and the Temptations groove out on “Fiddler on the Roof”. Also featuring Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, and others, …

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  • The Secret Musical History Of… ‘Black Sabbath’? (NPR)

    September 12th, 2010 | Blog, Press | admin | No Comments

    What do Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Johnny Mathis and Nina Simone all have in common? Besides stellar voices, they were among many black American artists who sang Jewish songs. This rarely told American story is chronicled on a new compilation called Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations, which uses music to …

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  • Black Sabbath on the Examiner

    July 20th, 2010 | Black Sabbath, Blog | admin | No Comments

    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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  • Black Sabbath Coming Out This September

    June 29th, 2010 | Black Sabbath, Blog | admin | No Comments

    The Idelsohn Society is thrilled to announce that our latest album,Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations, will be released on September 14. Hear Johnny Mathis croon Yom Kippur songs and the Temptations groove out on “Fiddler on the Roof”. Also featuring Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, and others, …

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