Category Music

A composer for the Queen

photo - British-Israeli composer Loretta Kay Feld

British-Israeli composer Loretta Kay Feld. (photo by Michal Sela) Loretta Kay Feld was asked by someone close to Queen Elizabeth II to compose three tributes, which, said Kay Feld, “were gifted to Her Majesty to honour her 70 years on…

Folk festival returns to park

photo - Michelle Demers Shaevitz, artistic director of Mission Folk Music Festival, which runs July 22-24

Michelle Demers Shaevitz, artistic director of Mission Folk Music Festival, which runs July 22-24. (photo from Mission Folk Music Festival) “Mission Folk Music Festival is a wonderful combination of the familiar and the magical,” artistic director Michelle Demers Shaevitz told…

Ancient-modern music

photo - Artist-in-residence David Greenberg has multiple performances at this year’s Vancouver Bach Festival: Scottish Baroque and Other Traditions

Artist-in-residence David Greenberg has multiple performances at this year’s Vancouver Bach Festival: Scottish Baroque and Other Traditions. (photo by J.B. Millot) Violinist David Greenberg teaches a course called Cape Breton-Baroque Integration, which is “devoted to creating living moments on the…

Song in My Heart delights

Spring forum? What spring? Heavy rain and cold weather welcomed Jewish Senior Alliance’s spring forum that took place at the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture May 15. But the forum’s title, With a Song in My Heart, was more…

With a Song returns to forum

photo - Left to right are Joan Beckow, Claire Klein Osipov, Wendy Bross Stuart and Jessica Stuart, in 2010

Left to right are Joan Beckow, Claire Klein Osipov, Wendy Bross Stuart and Jessica Stuart, in 2010. (photo by Ron Stuart) Canceled more than two years ago because of COVID, With a Song in My Heart, a special concert for…

Mixing global music, dance

photo - Dancers Alvin Erasga Tolentino, left, and Gabriel Dharmoo in Passages of Rhythms, in which Jonathan Bernard (below) is a percussionist

Dancers Alvin Erasga Tolentino, left, and Gabriel Dharmoo in Passages of Rhythms, in which Jonathan Bernard (below) is a percussionist. (photo by Yasuhiro Okada) “Passages of Rhythms is inspired by a shared fascination with interculturalism, interdisciplinary activity, flamenco and collaborations…

Orcas inspire creative music

photo - The creation of Songs for a Lost Pod helped singer/songwriter Leah Abramson explore her family’s Holocaust history

The creation of Songs for a Lost Pod helped singer/songwriter Leah Abramson explore her family’s Holocaust history. (photo by Angela Fama) The world première of Leah Abramson’s Songs for a Lost Pod was supposed to be part of this year’s…

Beckow’s music will live on

photo - Joan Beckow, left, Wendy Bross Stuart, centre, and Jessica Stuart, during a visit a few years ago

Joan Beckow, left, Wendy Bross Stuart, centre, and Jessica Stuart, during a visit a few years ago. (photo from Jessica Stuart) Acknowledging that the music world is “a fickle one in which skill, talent and ingenuity do not necessarily result…

Shira Choir focus of lecture

photo - Reverend Hazan Daniel Benlolo

Reverend Hazan Daniel Benlolo (photo from Kolot Mayim) “To repair the often-shattered world, I cannot think of a better way than to give a voice to those less heard,” said Reverend Hazan Daniel Benlolo, leader of the Montreal Shira Choir,…

Inspiring songs and stories

Inspired by Story and Song – this was the topic of the JSA Snider Foundation Virtual Empowerment Series session held on Dec. 2, in partnership with the Louis Brier Home and Hospital. Jewish Seniors Alliance co-president Gyda Chud welcomed the…