Not much Passover music arrived in this year’s mail so it’s difficult to speculate on the ebb and flow of certain kinds of Jewish music recordings, but it does seem that fewer holiday-specific records ...

Two weeks ago at a concert by the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, Ernst Toch’s “Cantata of the Bitter Herbs” was performed for the first time in about 30 years. A forgotten work by a mostly forgotten ...

Not only is it perfect for Pesach, but also it is simply top-notch choral music, written with the composer’s characteristic extrovert flair. One of its special qualities is that most of the dramatic ...

Cantor Josh Breitzer was taught to think of prayer music like a mountain. So when he and Cantor Rollin Simmons developed their plans for the year’s final Passover service at Congregation Emanu El, ...

Samantha and Samara, and Rachel and Reut, and some of the other girls in the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy high school choir swear to me that the Passover music they will be ...

The holidays of Easter and Passover intersect this weekend, and there are some egg hunts and a talk focusing largely on the more festive part of the Christian holiday, while a film festival offers ...