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Mona Golabek in "The Pianist of Willesden Lane.” (Courtesy Hershey Felder Presents)
Posted inTheater

‘Pianist of Willesden Lane’ back for South Bay run

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 8, 2020
Photos of violins like this one, made in Germany around 1870, will be featured in one of dozens of Violins of Hope events, January through March around the Bay Area. (Amnon Weinstein)
Posted inCulture

‘Violins of Hope’ escaped the Holocaust and are coming to Bay Area for events of music and memory

by Andrew Muchin January 8, 2020January 9, 2020
Ezra Koenig plays with Vampire Weekend in Madrid, Nov. 25, 2019. (JTA/Mariano Regidor/Redferns/Getty Images)
Posted inMusic

Ezra Koenig explains the Jewish history behind the Vampire Weekend song ‘Harmony Hall’

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA January 3, 2020January 3, 2020
Clive Owen plays Dovidl as an adult in "Song of Names." (JTA/Sabrina Lantos/Sony Picture Classics)
Posted inTV & Film

Tim Roth and Clive Owen star in ‘Song of Names,’ which melds Holocaust, mystery and music

by Michael Fox December 27, 2019January 6, 2020
Gale Kissin (Jo Ann Smith)
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: A Yiddish-speaking gumshoe with a tapping toe

by Liz Harris December 5, 2019
Leonard Cohen in Nashville in 1968. (Photo/JTA-Tony Vaccaro-Getty Images)
Posted inMusic

Leonard Cohen album to be released posthumously

by Ron Kampeas and JTA November 20, 2019
Shira Kammen (Courtesy  Kammen)
Posted inMusic

Centuries-old Sephardic music plus bawdy songs about Virgin Mary in area concerts

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 18, 2019November 20, 2019
The Haim sisters, from left, Alana, Danielle and Este, of the group HAIM at Rodarte's fashion week show in San Marino, Calif., Feb. 5, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Presley Ann-Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Posted inMusic

HAIM, Jack Black and more record Hanukkah album

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA November 14, 2019November 14, 2019
Nabeel Abboud Ashkar, one of the founders of the Polyphony Conservatory.
Posted inCulture

Arab and Jewish musicians find common purpose in Polyphony Quartet

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert November 11, 2019November 11, 2019
Gold waves to the crowd on the giant screen above the stage at a massive concert
Posted inMusic

‘Be a mensch,’ says keyboardist for iconic rockers The Who

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert October 2, 2019

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