The program brings youth orchestras from across the country, training young musicians to carry forward a musical language of ...

Until Yoni Battat '13 was a teenager, Jewish music meant klezmer. In his synagogue and at his Jewish school outside New Haven, Connecticut, he heard and played the Eastern European-style folk music.

As an accomplished violinist, Yoni Avi Battat has performed around the world. He has toured as an actor and violinist with the Tony Award-winning musical “The Band’s Visit” and performs with his ...

An Israeli music critic and a Palestinian musician share some songs — in Hebrew and Arabic — released in this year of war. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an independent, nonprofit news ...

In an underground reservoir built 1,233 years ago in a city that saw sectarian riots last year, visitors hear a beguiling musical composition that combines Arab love songs with Hebrew poetry. By ...

JERUSALEM — When the bell rings at Jerusalem's Hand in Hand school, you hear something that's not common in Israel: the sound of young people's voices rising together in laughter and conversation in ...