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Composer Ron Ramin
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: This composer hits the right notes on gun violence

by Patricia Corrigan May 8, 2019May 10, 2019
Workers build the stage for Eurovision Song Contest at Expo Tel Aviv, April 15, 2019. (Photo-JTA-Jack Guez-AFP-Getty Images)
Posted inMusic

Israel’s Eurovision planners say rockets won’t stop the music

by JTA and Sam Sokol May 7, 2019
Violinist Gil Shaham (Photo/Luke Ratray)
Posted inMusic

Violin virtuoso Gil Shaham brings his ‘favorite recital’ to Bay Area

by Dan Pine April 23, 2019April 24, 2019
"Kanta Judezmo" composer Sascha Jacobsen’s cousins, the Capeloutos, in Rhodes, circa 1906 (Photo/Courtesy Sascha Jacobsen)
Posted inCulture

Ladino is the language, S.F. the setting for world premiere of grand Jewish oratorio

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 18, 2019April 18, 2019
Screenshot from the documentary "Ask Dr. Ruth," which is showing at the 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Dr. Ruth documentary comes to SFIFF; big honor for Jewish jazz pianist; and… something about Bob Fosse?

by Nate Bloom April 15, 2019April 16, 2019
Israeli musician Aviya Kopelman is a visiting artist at UC Berkeley. (Photo/Courtesy Yuval Shiboli)
Posted inMusic

World-famous Israeli composer Aviya Kopelman is around Bay for a bit

by Andrew Muchin March 27, 2019March 27, 2019
Cubed members (from left) Nataan Hong, Ezra Rosen, Harrison Saltzman and Claire Banks
Posted inMusic

Rockers ready to play hard — but first, middle school

Daniel Bromfield by Daniel Bromfield March 22, 2019March 25, 2019
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen is one of the few Jewish opera singers in the country. (Photo/Kristen Loken)
Posted inOn Stage

Young Jewish opera star comes to Bay Area as King David himself

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 20, 2019March 21, 2019
Perla Batalla with her mentor, Leonard Cohen. (Photo/Courtesy Perla Batalla)
Posted inMusic

Leonard Cohen’s backup singer to pay tribute to mentor in S.F.

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 14, 2019March 13, 2019
three young women (including two blind lead singers) and five young men stand around a drum set with the Shalva Band logo on it, smiling and posing; a young man with Down syndrome holds his hands up in a heart shape
Posted inMusic

Why this Israeli band of disabled musicians said no to Eurovision

Gil Stein by Gil Stein March 13, 2019March 13, 2019

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