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In 2023-2024, The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience examined a little-known but seminal artistic movement that profoundly influenced the development of Jewish art music in the 20th century, the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music (1908-1917). Presented in Part I and Part II.

In 2023-2024, The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience examined a little-known but seminal artistic movement that profoundly influenced the development of Jewish art music in the 20th century, the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music (1908-1917). Presented in Part I and Part II.

A historic performance of The Gates of Justice took place in February 2023 at UCLA’s iconic Royce Hall. For the first time ever, Brubeck’s sons performed as the accompanying jazz trio.

What role can music play in building bridges of understanding, furthering social justice and promoting healing across communities? This online three-part series explores these issues while inviting our national audience to participate in the discussion.

Prior to the performance of The Gates of Justice, a pre-Concert conversation between Darius Brubeck, Arturo O'Farrill, Larry Blumenfeld, and Wayne Winborne, moderated by Wayne Winborne.

Written by Henekh Kon in 1924, "Bas Sheve" is one of the only known pre-Holocaust Yiddish operas, and it made its North American debut in Toronto in 2022. This panel will discuss the performance with video examples provided.

Mark Kligman interviews Alex Weiser about the 2022 YIVO festival, "Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksongs Today." This music festival celebrated Yiddish folksong and featured a variety of performances.

This lecture explores the implications of promoting Italian opera among a largely uneducated Yiddish working-class population, the questions of assimilation and acculturation raised by these endeavors, and the relationship between the high and popular cultural spheres.

This lecture examines the trajectory of Josiah Zuro’s career in New York, revealing how the impresario and educator finds innovative ways of attracting Italians, Jews, and Americans to attend opera performances.

This lecture focuses on Russian opera singer Meer Haimovich Bernshtein's foray into the New York Yiddish scene after a successful career in Europe. It examines the ways he appealed to Russian-Jewish audiences in not only opera but also the Yiddish theater.

Revealing the intriguing overlap between the elite and popular spheres, this lecture highlights Oscar Hammerstein’s savvy in making the typically snobby uptown opera scene accessible to those from the Lower East Side (and beyond) by building the Manhattan Opera.

This lecture delves into the interconnections between the Jewish and Italian opera spheres in the early 1900s, showing how Ivan Abramson capitalizes on the cultural overlap between the two immigrant groups to promote his popular price company.

Award winning composer Charles Fox is best known for his contributions to the music of TV and film, yet some of the compositions he is most proud of are those with Jewish themes. Meet Charles, learn more, and hear some of his music.

Composer Andrea Clearfield and conductor Noreen Green are two women who have deeply impacted the world of Jewish music. In this virtual program, participants will have the opportunity to engage with these artists and learn about their music and inspirations.

Mare’ot/ Mirrors, was a virtual concert celebration and interactive roundtable featuring six women composers of Jewish Heritage.

In this scholarly talk, Professor Tina Frühauf walked viewers to four corners of New York City and the Jewish musical cultures—past and present—of distinct neighborhoods.

We spoke with Inna Faliks, the acclaimed Ukrainian-born American pianist and Head of Piano at UCLA. Inna engaged with attendees, shared music and explored the inspirations behind her compositions.

Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks has established herself as one of the most communicative, and poetic artists of her generation.

We visited with and listened to the music of Julia Adolphe, winner of ASCAP Young Composer & Lincoln Center Emerging Artist awards and more.