Alexandre Tansman was a multi-genre composer as well as a virtuoso pianist. He fled Europe for the United States in 1941, and his rhythmic Polish Rhapsody—inspired by the invasion of Poland and ...

In the great modern exodus of Russian Jews from the Soviet Union during the 1980s, many of those who came to New York worked for a while as taxi drivers, as other immigrants have done before and since ...

Less than a month after the death of Charlton Heston, another of Hollywood’s great over-actors is taking center stage in the retelling of the Passover story. This week the Jewish Music Group is ...

Back in the days of “Ben-Hur” and “The Ten Commandments,” a widescreen epic was expected to be accompanied by a lavish symphonic score and, just as often, a heavenly choir. Is that still true for ...