By STEPHEN SILVER
(JTA) — Since the dawn of rock ‘n’ roll, there have been quite a few rock stars with Jewish heritage. To name a few: Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Gene Simmons, Lenny Kravitz, Geddy Lee and — depending on the decade — Bob Dylan.
But how many have...
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Noted musicolgist and lecturer George Dansker will be presenting his annual lecture on Jewish composers next Friday evening, January 25, at Touro Synaogogue and this year it’s on Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, the composer-lyricist team responsible for Broadway box office winners “Brigadoon,” “My Fair Lady” and “Camelot.”
Titled...
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Musician, singer and composer Gary Negbaur, who hails from New York, but has found affinity with New Orleans rhythm and blues, jazz and blues, returns to New Orleans over the course of the next week with a series of solo gigs.
The Columns Hotel, 3811 St. Charles Avenue, is the setting...
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(JTA) — William Shatner recently released a star-studded holiday album titled “Shatner Claus,” on which he croons classic Christmas tunes as “Jingle Bells,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Silent Night.”
But there are no Chanukah songs on it, and the Jewish icon is having regrets about that.
“I was going to do ‘Dreidel,...
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(JTA) — Marty Balin, the co-founder of the iconic 1960s psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, has died in Tampa, Florida, of unspecified causes. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was 76.
Born Martyn Jerel Buchwald to Jewish parents in Cincinnati in 1942, Balin was one of the founding members of Jefferson Airplane and...
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By DEAN M. SHAPIRO, Special to the CCJN
Perfectly timed to coincide with the Jewish High Holy Days, the nine-member, New Orleans-based chamber music ensemble, Musaica, is presenting two evening programs highlighting selected works of Jewish and Jewish-influenced composers.
On Monday, September 17, Musaica will open its 2018-19 season with...
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(JTA) — Rapper Mac Miller was found dead of an apparent drug overdose on Friday, TMZ reported.
The 26-year-old struggled with substance abuse for years, including during a high-profile relationship with pop star Ariana Grande.
According to TMZ, Miller was found by police at his home in California’s San Fernando...
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The American indie pop band Of Montreal was the latest artist or group to cancel its participation in the Meteor Festival in Israel.
The three-day festival began Thursday.
“After exhausting all of the different possible ways of justifying playing an Israeli party festival, while the political and...
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By ILANIT CHERNICK
(TPS.ogr) — Following weeks of pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Lana Del Rey has canceled her performance at the Meteor Festival.
The festival is scheduled to kick off next week at Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan in the Galilee.
In a statement on Twitter,...
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Singer Lana Del Rey said she “will be visiting Palestine” in addition to a planned appearance in Israel following a public relations campaign by pro-Palestinian activists.
Earlier this week the American performer announced that she would stick to her decision to perform in Israel in the face of calls...
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