Music

“As Jewish practice, learning and knowledge diminish over time, my concern is that Holocaust memory is emerging as the dominant feature of Jewishness in America.” So said…
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If you squint while you’re watching them play, they look a bit like Peter, Paul and Mary. A blonde woman in between two dark haired men, at times gathered around a single…
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The big show is Fiddler On The Roof. Thousands in the Royal Albert Hall will be shrugging with Bryn Terfel, as Tevye, about the mysteries of "Tradition", and attending…
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The Summer festival season is once again here, and for the hordes of us Jewish festival-goers, it’s time to dust down the tents, and go back to our outdoor desert roots.…
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The folk music festival Jacob’s Ladder was founded in 1978 by British Jews Menachem and Yehudit Vinegrad, who were then new immigrants to Israel. Held every spring on the verdant…
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In 2009 the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester approached me to write a work for their whiz-bang Children’s Choir. My answer was an immediate “yes” and an idea followed swiftly. I had…
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‘My name, Adès, is a Syrian Jewish name of some antiquity, as I understand. It is spelled 
in Hebrew with “ayin”, rather than “aleph”’, Thomas Adès explains. A superstar of…
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Each of the 72 concerts of this, the world’s largest music festival, held twice nightly, often, in London’s Royal Albert Hall, is tantamount to a prayer service, as anyone who has…
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