music Archives - Page 6 of 33 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The Jewish Songwriters Behind Elvis’s Jewish Hit Machine

The Jewish Songwriters Behind the Elvis Presley Hit Machine

Like Rodgers and Hammerstein before them, Leiber and Stoller were a songwriting duo to the stars. Jerome Leiber and Mike Stoller, both born in 1933 to Jewish families in Baltimore and Long Island respectively, met in Los Angeles as teenagers and bonded over a mutual love of blues and R&B. With Stoller’s compositional acumen and […]

By Zachary Solomon

from Jewniverse

The 1938 Jazz Concert That Changed Black and Jewish History

When Benny Goodman, the Jewish clarinetist and so-called “King of Swing” took center stage at Carnegie Hall on January 16, 1938, the audience was in for more than just a rollicking time. That performance has reigned for decades as the most significant concert in jazz history. It was not only the inaugural jazz show at Carnegie Hall, […]

from Jewniverse

First He Rescued Jews, Then He Lost His $4 Million Violin

Founder of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, rescuer of over 1,000 Jews from Nazi persecution, world-renowned virtuoso violinist. This is a guy we can get behind. Born in Poland in 1882, Bronisław Huberman had an ear for the harrowing trends of Nazi ascension. After writing an open letter in 1933 calling upon German intellectuals to denounce Nazism, Huberman recruited Jewish musicians […]

from Jewniverse

Sections

Trending Topics

music

The Jewish Songwriters Behind the Elvis Presley Hit Machine

The 1938 Jazz Concert That Changed Black and Jewish History

First He Rescued Jews, Then He Lost His $4 Million Violin

Passover with Metallica

The Jewish Diva Who Played the Indian Princess

The Oldest Holocaust Survivor in the World

Alice Herz-Sommer, world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, takes center stage in Oscar-nominated doc

Video: The singing haredi brothers whose star keeps rising

“All I Want for Thanksgivukkah is Jews” Mariah Carey Parody

An American Folksinger With A Hasidic Twist

Get JTA in your inbox

Get JTA in your inbox

Get JTA in your inbox