Music

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Letter to Kamilla: Music in Jewish Memory

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Letter to Kamilla: Music in Jewish Memory

This year is proving to be a busy and fruitful one for Mosaic Voices. Members of the resident choral group of New West End Synagogue have built on the success of the beautifully made and wonderfully atmospheric music videos they…

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The Israel Philharmonic Celebrates 85 Years ★★★

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The Israel Philharmonic Celebrates 85 Years ★★★

In less than an hour, a promotional film about the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra sails at a rate of knots through nearly a century of cultural history. Its aim is to open the pockets of potential donors, but it's likely to open their…

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The house that Serge built

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The house that Serge built

In 1969, the same year his mischievously erotic single ‘Je T’aime… Moi Non Plus’ sold six million copies and was denounced by the Vatican, French Jewish songwriter Serge Gainsbourg bought a house at 5 bis rue de Verneuil in Paris’s chic 7th arrondissement. It took two years to…

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Getting the goat: Dylan at 80

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Getting the goat: Dylan at 80

God knows why, but Bob Dylan has agreed to speak to me on the subject of the Nobel Prize. Call it an exclusive. We arrange to meet in Clissold Park, where I often walk with my dog, Lobos. Among the park’s many attractions are two goats; one named Bob, the other Dylan. It is they who…

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Yallah: Haim Botbol

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Yallah: Haim Botbol

The concert was opened by the warm-up act 3yin (pronounced ‘eye-in’), a sextet of London-based musicians playing Iraqi, Egyptian and other Arabic or Judeo-Arabic music on Western and Arab instruments. Did I say warm-up? More like ‘heat-up’, as this enthusiastic group of…