A conversation with conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya

Lidiya Yankovskaya left her home city of St Petersburg in 1995 to seek a new home with her family in Albany, New York, escaping the rampant antisemitism sweeping the Russian city. Read more

Listeners lose passion for music on streaming platforms, Israeli researchers

Israeli researchers have uncovered a link between collecting music and listening enjoyment, offering insights into how streaming applications impact the way people perceive and experience music. Read more

A blend of the familiar, the unfamiliar and the new: Music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

Having Wolfgang in your name would seem to direct your destiny towards musical composition. It certainly did with Erich Wolfgang Korngold, (1897 – 1957)  whose only symphony was played by the SSO last night. Read more

Q. Why do (Orthodox) synagogues not allow the use of organ music?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

The IDF’s ‘Special in Uniform’ gives disabled Israelis a chance to serve

The IDF offers people with developmental disorders such as autism an opportunity to serve in the military, giving them a chance to integrate into Israeli society along with everyone else through a program called “Special in Uniform” (SIU). Read more

FOJAM: Carole King – Hits & Rarities

Be prepared to come on a journey of surprise and nostalgia as we traverse this songwriting queen’s catalogue, with each singer performing a hit and a rarity that you may well know but may not know was written by one of the greatest Jewish songwriters of our time, Ms Carole King. Read more

Mar 22-24 Melbourne: Carole King – Hits & Rarities

Be prepared to come on a journey of surprise and nostalgia as we traverse this songwriting queen’s catalogue, with each singer performing a hit and a rarity that you may well know but may not know was written by one of the greatest Jewish songwriters of our time, Ms Carole King. Read more

Silent for 80 years, music from war camps plays again

The musical notes were scrawled on bits of toilet paper, tissue and card, sitting silent in a bundle for decades. Read more

Concert featuring Holocaust songs to perform at Carnegie Hall

The day Elie Wiesel died, composer and music producer, Ira Antelis, said something came over him. Read more

Shira Haas hosts IPO 85th anniversary

Marking the 85th anniversary of the founding of Israel’s most revered and respected cultural institutions, the Israel Philharmonic (IPO) has released a unique Film chronicling the IPO’s history and its lasting impact on music both within Israel and across the globe. Read more

Elena Kats-Chernin composes new work to celebrate 100th anniversary of the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs

The Sydney Philharmonia Choirs has collaborated with acclaimed multi-award-winning content creators TEN ALPHAS, to produce a special digital concert, Time and Place – Celebrating 100 years. Read more

Family reflections on Yom HaShoah: a personal search into the dramatic saga of her Mahler- Rose-Bujanover family

I grew up with those photos. The photos from distant beautiful fairy-like life: Tuileries Garden, Paris, elegantly dressed woman, her children surrounded by birds and flowers in a totally another dimension of life. Read more

Forbidden Music: Composers banned by the Third Reich

Continuing a series by Stevie Whitmont of music banned by the Nazis…this month features Arnold Schoenberg. Read more

A Pocket of Hope

Two Sydney Jewish film-makers and a soulful klezmer singer have launched a ‘crowd-funding’ campaign to help them tell an inspiring story which may help to stem the rising tide of resurgent antisemitism in Europe. Read more

Shir Madness

The organisers of Sydney music festival Shir Madness provided top flight local entertainment to a packed Roundhouse at the University of New South Wales. Read more

Top award for George Dreyfus

APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre have announced that George Dreyfus will be the recipient of the Distinguished Services to Australian Music honour at the 2013 ART Music Awards. Read more

Apr-20 Melbourne: Australian Jewish Music Ensemble in concert

The Australian Jewish Music Ensemble performs at the Bennetts Lane Jazz Club. Read more