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Jewish Music into the Mainstream: Jewish Themes in American Popular, Classical & Folk Music

Led by Cantor Ayelet Porzecanski with special guest Robert L. Cohen

Location | Library

American-Jewish composers, and some non-Jewish musicians as well, have infused mainstream musical forms and styles — from popular song and musical theater to folk music and bluegrass; from classical music and jazz to reggae and world music — with Jewish passion and yearning as well as Jewish musical themes and motifs: with the sounds of Jewish chant and the texts of Jewish prayer.

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