For two thousand years after the destruction of the Second Temple, the rivers of the Jewish Diaspora flowed from Jerusalem across Europe, Asia and Africa. Adapting to the customs and languages of new homes, Jewish culture,...
Read MoreBy Elizabeth and Joe Kahn Everyone wants a piece of greatness, whether it be of rock stars or literary classics. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, the nineteenth-century German poet, whose translation of Shakespeare’s...
Read MoreOnce upon a time, when one of us (Elizabeth) was studying musicology in an unnamed northeastern graduate school, the musicologists had a virtual death grip on the performance practice of early music. So concerned were they that...
Read MoreTwice a year, for 37 years, Paul B. Conway, music director of Hillyer Community Chorus, has mounted performances of large-scale sacred choral works that have been shunted aside by the masterpieces of the genre. Conway’s...
Read MoreMarc-André Hamelin certainly knows how to choose programs that showcase his strengths. The Canadian pianist has just about the most nimble and precise fingering in the business. But his program, the last of this...
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