Music and Justice Concert, featuring Dave Brubeck’s “The Gates of Justice”

Music and Justice Concert, featuring Dave Brubeck’s “The Gates of Justice”

February 14, 2023

*Update: The Music and Justice concert has ended* We are excited to partner with the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience to produce Music and Justice; a three-day event centered around a concert performance of The Gates of Justice on Feb.


Hanukkah Giveaway: Brubeck live event, music & memorabilia (Update: Giveaway has ended)

Hanukkah Giveaway: Brubeck live event, music & memorabilia (Update: Giveaway has ended)

December 06, 2022

*Update: This giveaway has concluded. Thank you for your participation!* Dave Brubeck, who passed away 10 years ago, was a champion of social justice, using jazz as an instrument of activism in the service of unity.


Let's L'Chaim Live! — Fiddler Experience GIVEAWAY

Let's L'Chaim Live! — Fiddler Experience GIVEAWAY

September 13, 2022

This Rosh Hashanah, let’s raise a toast “to our prosperity, to good health and happiness, and most important… to life!” The last two years have felt like an endless series of isolated Sunrises and quarantined Sunsets.


Celebrating Lukas Foss at 100

Celebrating Lukas Foss at 100

August 16, 2022

Lukas Foss (1922–2009) was a bit of an iconoclast as a composer. He was so interested in the new that he never hewed too closely to any one creative school, and was too experimental to cultivate an identifiable style.


Celebrating Leo Kraft’s 100th: New Oral History and Spotify Playlist

Celebrating Leo Kraft’s 100th: New Oral History and Spotify Playlist

July 21, 2022

Though not a household name, composer Leo Kraft (1922–2014) was a significant force on New York’s new music scene from the mid-20th century to well into the 21st.


 Introducing the Milken Archive Data Dashboard

Introducing the Milken Archive Data Dashboard

June 13, 2022

What does Jewish music look like? It’s not the most obvious question. But for the past two years, we have been collaborating on a research project on recorded Jewish music with our partners at the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at UCLA.


Musical Echoes of Ukraine in the American Jewish Experience

Musical Echoes of Ukraine in the American Jewish Experience

May 05, 2022

Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony is arguably his most important concert work and most profound musical expression of his crisis of faith. But its linchpin is actually a variation on Hasidic legend from Ukraine in which a rebbe confronts God for failing to protect the Jewish people.


Welcoming the Stranger This Passover - With Generosity and Music (and Tovah!)

Welcoming the Stranger This Passover - With Generosity and Music (and Tovah!)

March 30, 2022

The theme of “welcoming the stranger” is central in the observance and celebration of Passover.


William Schuman’s “Judith”: How a Ballet Score Helped Save an Orchestra

William Schuman’s “Judith”: How a Ballet Score Helped Save an Orchestra

February 16, 2022

Like many of his contemporaries, composer William Schuman harbored a love for American jazz and popular music. In fact, before pursuing composition studies in his twenties, it is estimated that he wrote nearly 150 popular songs.


The Malavsky Sisters: In Their Own Words

The Malavsky Sisters: In Their Own Words

January 11, 2022

Cantor Samuel Malavsky was born in Russia in 1894. Like so many cantors of his generation, he learned the cantorial trade as a meshorer, or chorister. When he came to the U. S.

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