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“Our goal with this project is to raise consciousness and have a conversation about civil rights and social justice,” Kligman said. “To lead towards mutual understanding, and hopefully unity is where we want our conversations to go.”

“The Gates of Justice,” a large-scale 1969 choral work about relations between Black and Jewish Americans, is being performed in Los Angeles.

Close admirers of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg know that the Supreme Court judge was an ardent fan of the opera.
So to honor the Jewish justice on what would have been her 88th birthday, the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia is holding an event featuring performances of some of Ginsburg’s favorite arias.

The program features performances by Joshua Blue (tenor), Norman Garrett (baritone), Michelle Rice (soprano), and Ashley Marie Robillard (soprano).

The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience, which opened last month, aims to “become a national leader in the exploration of Jewish music,”

UCLA has opened a center to explore the history of Jewish music in America with an eye toward breaking ground.

UCLA has opened North America’s first permanent academic home for the study of music of American Jewish experience, housed in the Herb Alpert School of Music.

The University of California, Los Angeles has announced a $6.75 million gift from the Lowell Milken Family Foundation to establish the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience.

The new center is an extension of the Milken Archive of Jewish Music, which was founded by Milken in 1990 to record, preserve and disseminate music inspired by more than 350 years of Jewish life in the United States.

UCLA has opened North America’s first permanent academic home for the study of American Jewish music. Housed in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience, which seeks to foster artistic creativity, scholarship, performance, and other cultural expression, is the result of a $6.75 million gift from the Lowell Milken Family Foundation.

UCLA has opened North America’s first permanent academic home for the study of music of American Jewish experience, housed in the Herb Alpert School of Music.