Jewish music

Twenty years ago, Leon Botstein started the annual Bard Music Festival. This year the festival focuses on the Viennese modernist Alban Berg. Botstein pitches Berg’s difficult, dissonant work to audiences who normally can’t stand 20th-century music. He tells Kurt that music suffers from “masterpiece syndrome”, which keeps attention off of lesser-known artists ? and prevents […]

Indie music star Ben Kweller reminds us that there’s plenty of good Hanukkah music. He joins us from his tour bus, which is currently parked in Birmingham, Ala.

Reporter Daniel Rosenberg tells us about an all-male Jewish choir based in Moscow. They call themselves Hassidic-Cappella.

A Jewish musical renaissance is taking place in Moscow. Reporter Daniel Rosenberg tells us about two musicians who perform Yiddish music in the Russian capital.