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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,” Brubeck’s 1969 masterwork, gets revived with his sons in tow, and reopens a conversation Americans need to have.

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

Join us for a free virtual concert, “Mare’ot/Mirrors”, celebrating the extraordinary contemporary music composed by six women of Jewish heritage.

In advance of the show, titled “For the Love of Opera,” the museum released the seven-song program.

Close admirers of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg know that the U.S. 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.

On March 15, in honor of what would have been Ginsburg’s 88th birthday, the National Museum of American Jewish History, Opera Philadelphia and the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music will host “For the Love of Opera: Celebrating RBG’s 88th Birthday.”

On Monday, March 15, a new operatic event will showcase U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s favorite arias on what would have been her 88th birthday.

On Monday, March 15, Opera Philadelphia Channel will present a new operatic event showcasing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s favorite arias on what would have been her 88th birthday.

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

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

The center “has the potential to become a national leader in the exploration of Jewish music.”

UCLA announced on Dec. 3 the opening of its first permanent academic home for the study of American Jewish music

The Milken Archive of Jewish music has been compiling collections made by Jewish artists since 1990, in order to preserve and distribute the experience of over 350 years of 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 the American Jewish experience.

UCLA has opened North America’s first permanent academic home for the study of music of American Jewish experience.

UCLA has opened North America’s first permanent academic home for the study of American Jewish music.

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.