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Conductor and comentator: Gerard Schwarz From the Milken Archive American Jewish Music presents a 13-part radio series. Each series is 2 hours. Ranging from concertos over Yiddish theater to symphonies a. o., the series was successfully aired this year (2006). It could be internationally obtained from Naxos Web Radio channels 46 to 48 (www.NaxosRadio.com). These episodes were introduced by Leonard Nimoy: Each theme was reflecting American Jewish music. Songs from the Golden Age of Yiddish Theater; music by Kurt Weill a. o.; Sephardic music; Jewish legends in tone poems, film scores and operas; Klezmer music; sacred masterpieces and the great cantorial tradition; symphonies and concertos; Holocaust reflections and world premieres of recently discovered Jewish compositions by the Hungarian Leonard Bernstein.
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