Classical music
Some reflections on how we Jews cope with the majority culture around us, provoked by Handel’s beautifully crafted 1741 oratorio.
Unlike some contemporaries, he spoke unapologetically of his Jewish heritage.
Alfred Cortot.
Mieczysław Weinberg wrote music equal in its genius to Mahler and Shostakovich, including one of the most powerful tributes to the victims of 20th-century tyranny.
An Indian who fell in love with the Jewish state.
When music could not transcend evil.
The great composer was a devout Christian, but what did he think of the Jews?
What every musician seeks most.
Jerzy Fitelberg was a favorite of Aaron Copland and Arthur Rubinstein. Then he was lost to history. Now, sixty years after his death, his music is being played again.
A newly translated biography.
He wants to take the Berlin State Opera to Tehran.
“We will sing to the Nazis what we cannot say to them.”
A remarkable concert reintroduces three Jewish composers who fled fascist Europe to America, where two of them pioneered a new art form—the symphonic film score.
Most orchestral music composed since 1950, writes Oliver Rudland, pales in comparison with that of the previous 100 years. Even popular music, after its mid-century. . .