In this special from WQXR, six prominent artists share memories of Chanukah and the music the holiday brings to mind. From soothing to surprising, from reverent to rowdy, their musical choices will ...

In the United States, pumpkin pie is almost mandatory at Thanksgiving, while pumpkin makes occasional appearances in sweet breads and sometimes a creamy soup during the fall and winter — all the way ...

Six prominent artists share memories of Chanukah, and the music the holiday brings to mind. From soothing to surprising, from reverent to rowdy, their musical choices will inspire and delight you.

Ladino is “basically the language of the Sephardic Jewish people who came out of the Iberian Peninsula — Portugal and Spain — during the Inquisition,” Henley told the Chronicle by phone. “It’s an ...

Sephardic Jews were those who settled on the Iberian Peninsula — Spain and Portugal — expelled in 1892 to settle in the Greek Isles, and eventually migrating throughout the Middle East and North ...

She is a highly respected international singer (mezzo soprano), composer, professor, and voice coach and is a pioneer in the performance of Sephardic music. Musicians representing jazz, classical, and ...

The Kitchen's new Shabbat prayerbook includes traditional prayers in Hebrew and English, with transliterations and egalitarian translations. It also includes Sephardic piyyutim, or liturgical poems.

East of the River opened the season for Music Before 1800 with a Rosh Hashanah program Sunday at Corpus Christi Church. Music is a magnet for outside influences, and Sephardic Jews had plenty of them.

The Ohr Avner Sephardic Center of Hollis Hills in Queens, New York, was officially inaugurated with the welcoming of a new Sefer Torah donated by Gavriel Sofiev and his wife Chagit Leviev-Sofiev, CEO ...

An interesting new report was published about non-Ashkenazi Jewish communities in the US, focusing on Persian Jews in the Los Angeles area, Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, Bukharan Jews in Queens, and ...

Lenox — The Tanglewood Learning Institute will present Veracruz-born jazz vocalist Lucía at the Linde Center for Music and Learning on Friday, September 12. Her performance marks the first of more ...

It's almost like there's a code embedded in Bartok's field recordings, and when the code comes out, it transforms the music. It transforms us. Ban's playing is at once dynamic, appealing, fun, ...