Yearly Archives: 2010

Jewish Music Classes Ready for Spring at Hebrew College

Hebrew College is offering a variety of courses teaching the basics of Jewish synagogue music. Courses range from cantillation and nusach, to holiday nusach. Some of these courses are available to anyone as part of their continuing online course offerings. For example, this semester, an Introduction to Nusach is being offered online. For more information and to register, visit:
http://hebrewcollege.edu/spring-2010-courses.

Renowned Cleveland Music Collector Donates Jewish Recordings to FAU Libraries

Family of Renowned Cleveland Music Collector Donates Tens of Thousands of Recordings to FAU Libraries

BOCA RATON, FL – The family of Jack Saul, a renowned Cleveland music collector, has gifted about 10,000 unique Jewish records to Florida Atlantic University’s Judaica Sound Archives, which already held one of the world’s largest collections of preserved and digitized Judaic audio recordings. Another 50,000 vintage 78-rpm records from Saul’s collection will be used to establish a vintage records archive at FAU Libraries. In addition, 500 jazz LPs from the gift were added to the library’s extensive jazz collection.

Saul’s gift contained many rare and popular 78 rpms, LP albums and reel-to-reel tapes. While some of the recordings were new titles for the JSA, others were duplicates and replaced recordings in the archives that were not in as good condition.…
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Shir Appeal at Ner Tamid

Jewish A-Cappella Concert THIS Sunday 3pm at Ner Tamid

Shir Appeal: A Jewish A-Cappella Group
Tufts University, Boston

Shir Appeal is Tufts University’s Co-Ed Jewish a cappella group,
united by the love of music and Jewish culture, and one of the more
acclaimed in the nation.

Shir Appeal sings many types of music, including traditional Jewish
folk songs, Israeli rock, liturgical music, and American songs with
Jewish themes.

General Admission: $15 ·
Seniors, Students and under 18: $10
Ner Tamid is located at 1250 Quintara Street and 22nd Avenue in The
Sunset, San Francisco.
It is accessible by public transportation and there is plenty of
parking.