George Gershwin

‘This will be my 30th festival, and believe me there is still a lot of wonderful music to perform,” says Hanna Tzur, the artistic director of the…

Light music, serious music and everything in between – this is the motto of a new program, which the veteran classical Atar Trio (Ofer Shelley –…

To paraphrase Sir Thomas Morley, “Now is the month of Maying when the Festival is aplaying! Fa la la la la!” It’s the Israel Festival, of course,…

Avishai Cohen and Yonatan AvishaiYellow SubmarineJerusalemJanuary 6Imagine a chance encounter with a dear, old friend, someone you'veknown since…

Atthe age of eight he started learning piano and singing in the schoolchoir. His dream was to become a concert pianist. However, upondiscovering that…

George Gershwin: An Intimate PortraitBy Walter RimlerUniversity of Illinois Press204 pages; $29.95After escaping the streets, a young composer, torn…

While the hall was alive with the sound of music, the gardens were graced with the soliloquies and sonnets of Shakespeare. This past week, Jerusalem…

It could be a science fiction segment in the spirit of Star Trek but with a twist of gematria, the kabbalistic analysis of Hebrew letters. A very…

An article in Issue 11, September 15, 2008 of The Jerusalem Report. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report click here. Every year around now, Israel's…

Shavuot marks the beginning of the summer season for all of us. Those of us fortunate enough to live in Jerusalem can look forward to hot days and…

In 2006 Delia Spiers appeared to be on her way to stardom. Her five-track CD had attracted interest from Universal, Warner and Sony. An important…

The Rest Is NoiseBy Alex RossFarrar, Straus and Giroux640 pages; $30To try to sum up the entire musical output of the last century in a single book,…

For an artist by no means unfamiliar with controversy, the 1980 exhibit of Andy Warhol's "Jewish Geniuses," at the Jewish Museum in New York, a…

The New York Philharmonic arrived in North Korea Monday, becoming the most prominent American cultural institution to visit the isolated,…

Jewish life in North America was nearly aborted before birth when the governor of New Amsterdam sought to expel 23 Jews fleeing the Inquisition in…

Summertime and the living is... Well, you can fill in the blanks for yourselves. All I can say is that those jumping fish that George Gershwin made…

It's no secret that jazz is somewhat past its heyday. Back in the Thirties, Forties and Fifties, jazz was king. But then Elvis and the Beatles won…