Arts & Culture | Music

Altman, Tannenbaum Reunite For A Night

12/18/2012 | George Robinson | Special To The Jewish Week | Music

Two Jews walk into a cabaret. No, that’s not the joke, the jokes will come later, fast and furious.

Broza’s December Light

12/18/2012 | George Robinson | Special to the Jewish Week | Music

It was born in tragedy but has become a celebration. And it’s as dependable a Jewish ritual as Chinese food on the same night, Dec. 24.

David Broza’s “Not Exactly Christmas Eve” Concert at the 92nd Street Y has become a fixture on the calendar, and the Israeli singer-songwriter has a few new wrinkles for its 17th annual occurrence, the 12th to take place at the Y.

Keeping Adrienne’s Dream Alive

12/10/2012 | George Robinson | Special To The Jewish Week | Music

Sometimes you just have to drop everything else and do what’s right.

Frank London always has a busy schedule. Between the Klezmatics and his numerous side projects (the most recent being a Latin jazz-Jewish fusion essay with Arturo O’Farrill), there is never a convenient time for London to be interrupted.

Michael Winograd has a new CD being released this month with launch gigs in Boston and Brooklyn. December 2012 is not a rest period for him.

Outsiders Crash Sephardic Music Festival

12/05/2012 | George Robinson | Special To The Jewish Week | Music

Netanel Hershtik’s ‘Mission’

11/27/2012 | George Robinson | Special to the Jewish Week | Music

When he talks about Jewish music, Netanel Hershtik uses a word that one doesn’t usually hear from a musician preparing for an upcoming concert: mission. .

Given that he is a 14th-generation cantor — no, that is not a typo; his family can trace its history of hazanut back that far — the idea of singing Jewish music as a “mission” may not seem incongruous, but the intensity with which he speaks of it informs you instantly that Hershtik is not merely paying lip service. He firmly believes in it.

Madoff, The Song Cycle

11/01/2012 | Sandee Brawarsky | Jewish Week Book Critic | Music

Just a few years ago, Alicia Jo Rabins didn’t know much about the workings of Wall Street; she hadn’t yet heard of Bernard Madoff. But when the story of the largest Ponzi scheme in history unfolded, the musician, poet, Jewish educator — and admittedly broke artist — was captivated by the details of Madoff’s fraud.