Founder: Lowell Milken, Chairman Milken Family Foundation

Year established: 1990

Number of works newly recorded: More than 700

Number of world-premiere recordings: More than 600

Number of composers represented: More than 200

Dates of earliest and most recent works: Circa 1700–2005

Number of performing artists: More than 250

CDs released on Naxos American Classics label: 50 CDs released with nearly 300,000 sold

Number of volumes in online Virtual Museum: 20 themed volumes, each including music, oral histories, videos, photographs, articles, commentaries, and extensive program notes.

Projected date for completion of 20 volumes: 2014

Volume titles (not in order of release):

1) Jewish Voices in the New World: The Song of Prayer in Colonial and 19th-century America

2) A Garden Eastward: Sephardi and Near Eastern Inspiration

3) SEDER T'FILLOT: Traditional and Contemporary Synagogue Services

4) Cycle of Life in the Synagogue and Home: Prayers and Celebrations Throughout the Jewish Year

5) The Classical Klezmer: Rebirth of a Folk Tradition

6) Echoes of Ecstasy: Hassidic Inspiration

7) Masterworks of Prayer: Art in Worship

8) Sing Unto Zion!: In Praise of a Jewish National Home

9) The Art of Jewish Song: Yiddish and Hebrew

10) Intimate Voices: Solo and Ensemble Music of Jewish Spirit

11) Symphonic Visions: Orchestral Works of Jewish Spirit

12) Legend of Toil: Songs of Solidarity, Social Awareness and Yiddish Americana

13) Great Songs of the American Yiddish Stage: Yiddish Theater, Vaudeville, Radio, and Film

14) Golden Voices in the Golden Land: The Great Age of Cantorial Art in America

15) Swing His Praises: Jazz, Blues, and Rock in the Service of God

16) Heroes and Heroines: Jewish Opera

17) Odes and Epics: Dramatic Music of Jewish Experience

18) Psalms and Canticles: Jewish Choral Art in America

19) Out of Whirlwind: Musical Reflections of the Holocaust

20) L'DOR VADOR A Celebration of Children's Voices

Web Address: www.MilkenArchive.org

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