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Daniel Barenboim, Israel's Voodoo Doll

Sounds of Shimmering Lace Boundless Beauty: String Quartets by Debussy and Ravel United in New Album

Israeli Jewish-Arab Quartet Shines at the Elysee Palace

Classical Music Review |

Choral Flourish An Enigma Resolved: The Choral Works of Olivier Messiaen Flourish in New Album

Limp 'Peace Concert' Was a Sorry Show Just Outside Gaza, but Light Years Away: Limp 'Peace Concert' Was a Sorry Show

Avi Avital. "Violinists and pianists are burdened with the classical repertoire and technique, but as a mandolinist I pave the path while walking on it."

Avi Avital Stretches the Mandolin Strings Grammy-nominated Musician Returns to Israel After Selling Out Carnegie Hall

Know your 'Bravo!' from your 'Bravi!'

A Helping Hand for Classical Concertgoers

David Radzynsky. Concertmaster for the Israel Philharmonic at the age of 28.

The 28-year-old Leading Israel's Philharmonic Orchestral Maneuvers: The 28-year-old Leading the Israel Philharmonic

Benjamin Hochman in concert in Budapest.

Benjamin Hochman’s Versions Benjamin Hochman Gives New Meaning to Piano Variations

Zubin Mehta and the IPO. Is it possible to separate these Siamese twins?

Should IPO's Iconic Maestro Hand Over the Baton? Should Israel Philharmonic Orchestra's Iconic Maestro Hand Over the Baton?

David Greilsammer

A Fresh Spin on Classical Music Israeli Conductor With a Fresh Spin on Classical Music

Luciano Berio.

Avant Garde Revisited Luciano Berio's Groundbreaking Work Revisited

Assaf Shelleg: Saw that his doctorate on Jewish music was a prehistory of Israeli music.

The Culture Clash That Produced Israeli Music Dissonance: The Clash of Cultures That Produced Israeli Art Music

General rehearsal for La Traviata at Masada.

Paris Shall Not Fall Again La Traviata at Masada: Paris Shall Not Fall Again

Idith Zvi and Arie Vardi, next to a portrait of the late Arthur Rubinstein.

The Key to a Great Piano Festival Prestigious Piano Competition Returns to Tel Aviv, Looking to Be Key Music Event

Puccini's La Boheme.

Music vs. Drama at the Israeli Opera Israeli Opera's 'La Boheme' Overly Sentimental?

Itzhak Perlman.

A Lesson in Pulling Strings Itzhak Perlman Teachers a Few Lucky Teens How to Pull Some Strings

The ramparts walk is a great way to see the Old City from a new angle.

I Am for My Beloved

Galilee Chamber Orchestra

Harmony in Nazareth - All Kinds How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Through Nazareth

Rehearsing The Valkyries at Bayreuther Festspiele.

Tired of Wagner What More Can Be Said About Playing Wagner in Israel?

Lee Pearlman of the American-Israel culture Foundation.

Americans Groom Israeli Virtuosos How 'Americans of Means' Are Grooming Israel's Young Musicians

German composer Richard Wagner, undated

'Hatikva' Disrupts Wagner Conference Wagner Conference Interrupted by Hatikva-singing Heckler

Arnold Schoenberg's "Blue Self-Portrait" (February 1910).

Schoenberg's Five Uneasy Pieces Israel Philharmonic Gives Arnold Schoenberg a Fair Hearing With New Live Performance

Alexander Korsantia.

How to Play Mozart Showing the Israeli Audience How Mozart Should Be Played

Michael Sanderling conducting.

An Israeli-German Musical Venture An Israeli-German Youth Orchestra Strikes a Chord With Audiences

Shai Sakif

Climbing Up the Scales at the Israel Philharmonic

Mira Zakia. "I had sung pieces about rituals of tearing out hearts in South America. So when Kopytman came, I was already 'shout-proof.' I'd already screamed it all."

'In the Vast Fields of the Soul'

Israel Chamber Orchestra Musical Director Yoav Talmi, September 2013.

Facing the Music No Strings Attached: One Conductor's Plan to Save the Israel Chamber Orchestra

Painter and composer Hagar Kedima: At the Israeli Music Festival.

Composition in Notes and Ink A Case of Art Imitating Art: The Israeli Composer Who Can Paint Music

Yitzhak Yedid's creations veer off the beaten musical track (illustrative).

East vs. West: Israeli Composer Weighs In East vs. West, Religious vs. Secular - A Cutting-edge Composer Weighs In

Zubin Mehta. Illustration by Leo Atelman

Israeli Culture's Top Ten |

Israeli Classical Music's No. 1: Zubin Mehta

'I dream, bless and love in Arabic - how can I not sing in it?' Galillee-born soprano Enas Massalha.

From La Scala to Ramallah

From the Israeli production of La Traviata.

It Ain't Over 'Til the Topless Lady Sings In Israeli Opera's La Traviata, It's Not Over 'Til the Topless Lady Sings

The original and innovative British theater troupe 1927.

Putting Israel Back in the Israel Festival Putting the Israel Back in the Israel Festival

Gilad Hochman. He thinks the German approach to music should serve as a model for Israel.

Israeli Composer Takes Berlin

ICYMI

How Israel Intentionally Destroyed the Dead Sea

Everybody Asks, What Does Putin Want? We Think We Have an Answer

While Researching Heart Meds, They Found a Way to Grow a Different Kind of Muscle They Wanted to Cure Heart Disease. They Discovered a Way to Grow a Different Kind of Muscle

'My Religious Trans Patients Want to Talk About Faith. What if God Doesn't Forgive?'

'The Chameleon': U.S. Experts Shaken Over What This Iranian Scholar Just Said

'The Doctor Told Me, Sir, You're a Junkie': The Opioid Epidemic Hits Israel