Category: Music
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Keytar Bear’s Music Raises Spirits in Kendall Square MBTA
Cambridge writer Anita Harris much enjoyed the performance Keytar Bear, a musician, on the Kendall Square MBTA platform. She shares a brief video, here. (Well, her train arrived).
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Guest Opera Post: Rachel Yurman on “The Death of Klinghoffer” Controversy
The Metropolitan Opera’s recent announcement that it would produce the “The Death of Klinghoffer” led to a nasty, noisy, public debate focused on charges of antisemitism. Some music journalists reveled in the attention and in the moment of relevance for a 400-year-old form. Cambridge critic Rachel Yurman, however, was incensed by the assault, and embarrassed…
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Ladino Music Group Aljashu to perform at 2012 Boston Jewish Music Festival
Boston music group Aljashu’s intercultural performance of Sephardic songs, in the Ladino language, will take place at the 2012 Boston Jewish Music Festival on March 5, at Ohabei Shalom, Synagogue, in Brookline.
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Ladino Music Group Aljashu Debuts in Boston
I had the privilege of attending the debut concert of Aljashu, a group formed by vocalist Julia Madeson to perform songs sung in the Ladino language, a combination of Hebrew and Spanish spoken (and sung) by Jews in Spain and Portugul the Spanish Inquisition started, in 1492.