Oral History of American Jewish Music: Bringing the Past to Life – Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience

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The music of American Jewish experience has its first permanent dedicated academic home with the establishment of the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience. It unites the academic and the artistic, showcasing scholars, artists and educators to share their sounds and stories.
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The Oral History Project of American Jewish Music, created by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience in partnership with the Milken Archive of Jewish Music: the American Experience, is an audiovisual platform that provides a portal for scholars, researchers, musicians, listeners, and fans of Jewish Music to explore interviews of leading musicians, composers, cantors, and performers. A number of the oral histories feature historically significant individuals who are no longer living, such as Dave Brubeck and Freydele Oysher.

The field of Jewish Music has gained a new valuable resource which will expand knowledge about the evolving nature of music of the American Jewish experience.

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1955 — American composer

Bruce Adolphe

1908-2007 — Russian-born soprano

Mascha Benya

1920-2012 — American jazz pianist and composer

Dave Brubeck

1949 — Israeli-American composer

Shulamit Ran

1915-2012 — American composer of classical music

David Diamond

1914-2008 — actor, singer, and dancer in the American Yiddish theater.

Esta Salzman

Hazzan David Tilman b. 1949