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Fuse Music Interview: The Boston Jewish Music Festival Returns for Its 5th Year

Boston was once the largest Jewish community in the country without a Jewish music festival — now the five-year-old Boston Jewish Music Festival (BJMF) is one of the most-attended of its kind in the nation.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Fuse News, Music Tagged: Boston Jewish Music Festival, Jason M. Rubin, Jim Ball, Joey Baron

Judicial Review # 6: “Divine Sparks” (Boston Jewish Music Festival Concert at Berklee): How Hot a Flame?

What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This is our sixth session, this time a discussion about the concert “Divine Sparks,” a provocative attempt to explore how Jewish cantorial music and other kinds of religious song can spark musical improvisation and […]

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Jazz, Judicial Review, Music Tagged: Aaron Benoussan, Berklee Performance Center, Boston Jewish Music Festival, cantorial music, Divine Sparks, Frank London, Hankus Netsky, Jessica Kate Meyer, John Bradshaw, Leonard Rosen, Vijaya Sundaram

Coming Attractions in Jazz: March 2010

By J. R. Carroll March is the month for Elder Statesmen—and drummers. Bassist Buster Williams has played and recorded with, well, damn near everyone, and currently leads his own Something More Quartet; they’ll be coming to Scullers on March 2 at 8 p.m. Photo by Mandy Hall, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Drummer […]

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Jazz, Music Tagged: Acton Jazz Cafe, Amazing Things Arts Center, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Berklee Performance Center, Boston Jewish Music Festival, Buster Williams, Cindy Blackman, Don Byron, Hankus Netsky, Harvey Diamond, Honeyboy Edwards, Jim Repa, Joe Hunt, John Scofield, Jorge Perez-Albela, Judy Bressler, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kenny Werner, Klezmer Conservatory Band, Lily Pad, Marc Benno, Oscar Castro Neves, Paul Combs, Rebecca Cline, Regattabar, Respect Sextet, Roy Haynes, Ryles, Scullers, Steve Langone, Sun Ra, Tadd-Dameron, Tony Williams Lifetime, Toots Thielemans

Classical Music Sampler: March 2010

By Caldwell Titcomb March 2: The Contemporary Music Ensemble in residence at Boston University, Alea III, under the direction of Theodore Antoniou, offers a free concert in celebration of the late eminent composer/teacher/conductor Lukas Foss (1922–2009). Works by Foss to be performed are “Echoi,” “For Toru,” “Elegy for Anne Frank,” “For Aaron,” “The Prairie,” and […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Music Tagged: ALEA III, Alexander Zemlinsky, Boston Conservatory Orchestra, Boston Jewish Music Festival, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Bruce Hangen, Caldwell-Titcomb, Celebrity-Series-of-Boston, Charles Fisk, Chopin, Christian Wolff, Classical Music, Gil-Rose, Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, Harvard University Choir, James Levine, Jordan Hall, Lukas Foss, New Center for Arts and Culture, OperaHub, Peter Lieberson, Tallis Scholars, Theodore Antoniou, Welsh National Opera, Yo-Yo Ma

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