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New Coast-to-Coast Series Brings Trailblazing Jewish Musicians to Audiences Everywhere
May 31, 2022
Bicoastal partnership focused on American Jewish experience premieres short-form Secret Chord Concerts this JunePHILADELPHIA, Pa. (May 25, 2022) On Wednesday, June 1, the first season of Secret Chord Concerts, a new series spotlighting top Jewish musicians worldwide today, will launch.Secret Chord Concerts is a free on-demand video series featuring 15-25...
New Oral History of American Jewish Music Platform Brings the Past to Life
December 14, 2021
LOS ANGELES, CA (December 1, 2021) – The field of Jewish music is gaining a valuable resource which will expand knowledge about the evolving nature of music of the American Jewish experience.The Oral History Project of American Jewish Music, created by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish...
New Milken Archive of Jewish Music Album By Composer Bruce Adolphe Speaks to Past, Present, Future
January 25, 2021
“The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence.”—Rabbi Joaquim Prinz, 1963With themes central to our times, the Milken Archive of Jewish Music: The American Experience is releasing its first new album since 2015 with I Will Not Remain Silent, by prominent American...
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UCLA launches Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
December 3, 2020
UCLA has opened North America’s first permanent academic home for the study of music of American Jewish experience.Housed in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the new Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience will foster artistic creativity, scholarship, performance and other cultural expression, thanks to a...
Cantors Assembly, Milken Archive and Lowell Milken Fund Partner Once Again to Create “Cantors on Record” Zoom Series
October 22, 2020
The new series begins on Monday, October 26 at 8:00 PM ET and will feature music and interviews with top US cantors about their recording work with the Archive.New York–Building upon the success of last spring’s popular Stories of Music series, which featured an all-new curriculum developed by The Lowell...
Milken Archive of Jewish Music and Jewish Life Television Enter Intro Programming Collaboration
April 21, 2020
As part of its 30th Anniversary Celebration, the Milken Archive of Jewish Music and Jewish Life Television/JLTV have entered into a pioneering programming collaboration. Over the past two decades, the Milken Archive, founded by Lowell Milken, has produced numerous documentaries about some of the world's most gifted musicians from the...
The Milken Archive of Jewish Music, in conjunction with the Theodore Bikel Legacy Project, releases a mini-documentary on “The Singer of His People”
July 17, 2018
Theodore Bikel’s hope was to be remembered as “the singer of his people.” He was that—and a lot more besides. The Emmy winning, Oscar and Tony-nominated actor, singer, and peace activist defined iconic roles in “The Sound of Music” and “Fiddler on the Roof,” released dozens of albums of folk...
Jewish American Heritage Month In May 2018 Celebrates American Jews And Music
May 2, 2018
Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) is a national commemoration of the contributions that American Jews have made to the fabric of our nation's history, culture, and society. The theme for May 2018 is American Jews and Music which focuses on the rich and deep influence of American Jews on American...
UCLA receives $1.5 million from Lowell Milken Family Foundation to advance American Jewish music
April 6, 2017
Gift is largest donation made to a university to support Jewish music research and performance The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music has received a $1.5 million gift from the Lowell Milken Family Foundation to establish the Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music. The fund will enable the school...
Milken Archive of Jewish Music Unveils New Interactive Multimedia Experience
September 13, 2016
The Milken Archive of Jewish Music: The American Experience has launched an ambitious new website (www.milkenarchive.org) that allows visitors to seamlessly experience virtually every piece of music and every composer that the Archive has recorded since its founding in 1990. “This new site is a vast repository of a musical...
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