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Hi everybody! Welcome to my new weekly blog where we will have Jewish music news and views and a preview of next week’s show. I hope you enjoy it! I will post at least weekly and more if events dictate it. So here goes… OLD RECORDINGS RE-WORKED AND RE-DONE. DOES IT WORK? Lately there has been […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hi Everybody! Thanks for the very nice compliments regarding the blog. Here is this week’s installment. Hope you enjoy it. AUGUST 12, 1952 THE TERRIBLE DAY AND THE RECORDING THAT REMEMBERS On August 12, 1952 the campaign of Josef Stalin against the Jews of the Soviet Union reached a fever pitch when 24 of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hi everybody. Here is this week’s installment of my blog. Many thanks for the very nice compliments that I have received. I appreciate it very much. Here we go… REMEMBERING CANTOR MOSHE KOUSSEVITZKY ON HIS 45TH YARTZEIT On August 23, 1966 one of the greatest cantors of all time passed away from cancer. Cantor […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hi everybody! Here is this week’s blog. Hope you enjoy it! JEWISH MUSIC AND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONNECTION With the opening of the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial this week in Washington, it brings to my mind the decades-long phenomenon of African-American artists making Jewish records. This existed from the infancy of recording well into the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hi everybody! Sorry this week’s installment is a couple of days late, but things got a little hectic the end of last week. Anyway, here is this week’s post. Hope you enjoy it! SLICHOS RECORDINGS-CAVEAT EMPTOR (LET THE BUYER BEWARE) The Slichos service (or Slichot, as they call it nowadays) is a very beautiful and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hi everybody! This week I’ll be telling about the show in commemoration of September 11, 2011. Unfortunately it was not broadcast over the air, due to a bad storm that knocked the transmitter for the network off the air. Then there were some delays with the server to get the show up on the net. But […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
REMEMBERING BARRY SEROTA In November of 2009 the world of Jewish music lost one of its champions when Barry Serota died suddenly of a heart attack. For many years he was the director of Musique International recordings. He issued many recordings of Jewish music, especially Cantorials. His recordings always were of the highest quality with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
HAPPY, HEALTHY NEW YEAR TO ALL On behalf of myself, Shari, Ben, Matt and Shayna as well as Bill and Libby Parris and the KHZ network we wish all of our listeners a Happy and Healthy New Year. May we all be inscribed and sealed for a good and blessed year! Not much time to write a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hi Everybody! Sorry it took so long to get a new post up, but it was pretty hectic with the short weeks during the holidays. Well, now things are getting back to normal, so I am hoping to get a blog post up each week now for you to enjoy. A GIANT OF RADIO PASSES AWAY; […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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