Heritage, Freedom and Universal Experience with David Amram

Heritage, Freedom and Universal Experience with David Amram

June 09, 2020

We reached out to world renowned composer and musician David Amram for an update on his career, thoughts on Jewish music, and reflections on his work with the Milken Archive.


Celebrating American Jewish Heritage (and Ours)

Celebrating American Jewish Heritage (and Ours)

May 27, 2020

May is Jewish American Heritage month, a subject we celebrate year-round at the Milken Archive. Although the month is nearly over, it's always a good time to explore the ways that Jewish people have maintained their heritage and contributed to the greater American culture.


Will Yiddish Theater Ever Die? (Our New Virtual Tour)

Will Yiddish Theater Ever Die? (Our New Virtual Tour)

April 28, 2020

Yiddish theater, with its offshoots into radio, TV and film, was the most popular American Jewish cultural staple for half a century, telling the stories of the old world and mirroring the realities of the present world in which so many émigrés found themselves.


This Passover: Win Music and a Tzedakah Donation in Your Honor

This Passover: Win Music and a Tzedakah Donation in Your Honor

April 01, 2020

*Update:* Congratulations to all the winners of our Passover giveaway, especially to our grand-prize winner, Mr. Stanley Schwartz! A donation of $1,018 for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has been made in honor of Mr. Schwartz.


30 Years Recording History - Interviews and Your Thoughts

30 Years Recording History - Interviews and Your Thoughts

March 11, 2020

*30 Years Recording History* The Milken Archive began as a relatively modest endeavor in 1990, aiming to preserve a handful of liturgical and concert works comprising ten or fifteen albums.


Maestra Noreen Green—Music Crossing Boundaries

Maestra Noreen Green—Music Crossing Boundaries

February 19, 2020

The Milken Archive is a global project with a global audience. But it was born in Los Angeles—home to America’s second largest Jewish population. Today we’re highlighting two important features of the burgeoning Los Angeles Jewish music scene.


Musical Reflections 75 Years after the Liberation — A New Virtual Exhibit

Musical Reflections 75 Years after the Liberation — A New Virtual Exhibit

January 27, 2020

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is also the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Much has happened and much has changed in the years since the end of World War II.


The Milken Archive of Jewish Music Turns 30 in 2020

The Milken Archive of Jewish Music Turns 30 in 2020

January 15, 2020

2020 marks the 30th anniversary of the Milken Archive’s founding, a milestone we’ll be acknowledging and celebrating throughout the year.


Composer Gershon Kingsley, Pioneer of the Moog Synthesizer, Passes Away

Composer Gershon Kingsley, Pioneer of the Moog Synthesizer, Passes Away

December 16, 2019

*German-born American was, himself, the great synthesizer merging pop and classical, secular and sacred. * Gershon Kingsley, the German-born American composer whose pioneering work with the Moog synthesizer sought to reconcile pop and classical music, has died. He was ninety-seven and lived in Manhattan.


Robert Starer: A New Oral History and Music to Explore

Robert Starer: A New Oral History and Music to Explore

November 12, 2019

In the dramatic cantata, Ariel: Visions of Isaiah, composer Robert Starer depicts the triumph of Jerusalem as related in the Book of Isaiah. In that story, Isaiah prophesies that the city will be purged of evil forces in preparation for God's rule.

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