Learn Mizrahi music from master musician and vocalist, Sam Thomas. Samuel Torjman Thomas, Ph.D, is an ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist (saxophone/clarinet, oud, nay, vocals), teaches music, interdisciplinary studies, and Sephardic Studies at the City University of New York. His performance and research work centers on North African, Middle Eastern, and jazz traditions.
Oklahoma-born, Texas-reared, and now living in New Orleans, multi-instrumentalist Mark Rubin is an unabashed Southern Jew, known equally for his muscular musicianship and larger-than-life persona. In this interactive program, Rubin will share music from and insights into his new album The Triumph of Assimilation.
Composer Andrea Clearfield and Conductor Noreen Green are two women who have contributed to and deeply impacted the world of Jewish music. In this virtual program, participants will have the opportunity to engage with their artists and learn about their music and inspirations.
LA Sounds Now welcomes rapper, artist and producer, Jason (IDK) Mills to discuss the history, issues, and ongoing struggles that continue to animate the stark contrast between the music industry’s leading artists — often Black artists, female artists, and other artists of color—as compared to the industry’s executive and professional ranks.
Kicking off on Monday, September 27, this special edition of LA Sounds Now features Warner Records’ co-chairman and chief operating officer, Tom Corson, SVP Fan Engagement, Elissa Ayadi and EVP of Business Affairs and Legal, Julian Petty.
Part 2 of this 4-part online conference, is called “The Moment and Momentum of Kol Nidre: A Multi-Layered Analysis of Yom Kippur’s Grand Overture.” What makes the moment of Kol Nidre so unique? In our joint presentation, we will probe the grand overture of the Day of Atonement, liturgically, musically and as a performative event.
A celebration of Jewish women’s voices, the centerpiece of this concert are excerpts from Women of Valor, an award-winning cantata by composer Andrea Clearfield, performed by members of the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony under the direction of Dr. Noreen Green and featuring Grammy award-winning soprano Hila Plitmann and mezzo-soprano Iris Malkin. Inspired by a midrash, Women of Valor highlights the stories of women of the Bible through the contemporary lens of several women writers.
An Interdisciplinary Conference Series on the Relationships between Religion and the Arts, organized by Prof. Mark Kligman (UCLA) and Dr. Ruthie Abeliovich (The University of Haifa) This 4-part online conference aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on the performance and artistic creativity of “Kol Nidre” across historical periods, aesthetic forms, mediums and cultural contexts.
Join the UCLA PEER Lab for the first installment in the Pop Up Lab series, hosted by sound artist and composer Alba Triana as she invites us into her workspace and shares her creative process.
This 4-part series focuses on the varied tradition of liturgy in the languages of the Middle East, North Africa, former Ottoman Lands, and beyond, as they are currently practiced in the United States. Part 3 of the series continues to focus on the prayers of Shabbat, and features Asher Shasho Levy.
