I wish you a great feast of Hanukkah with Bienvenida Aguado’s voice
11th December 2020 – Shabbat of Hanukkah is almost here It is almost one year since this initiative of Music Before Shabbat started. It was in the Shabbat of Hanukkah…
MBS a talk with a generous disseminator, Joel Bresler, and the quest for the multiples branches of an artistic seed
4th December 2020 – Shabbat is almost here And I am pleased to share a little conversation with another disseminator whose work has fed mine in several ocassions: Joel Bresler.…
MBS with cantor Israel Shorr, the brilliant composer who left too soon
27th November 2020 – Shabbat is almost here And we’ll listen to a cantor that is also the author of some of the most celebrated pieces of cantorial repertoire: Israel…
MBS with Salim Halali and two thrilling tales. Believe or not, it is up to you
November 20th, 2020. Shabbat is almost here And we’ll learn about an artist in whose biography myth blends with facts. Born in Algeria in 1920, settled in Paris during the occupation of…
MBS with the crystallisation of a song and the Diwan of Yemenite Jews
November 13th, 2020. Shabbat is almost here And we’ll listen again the poem Im Nin’Alu, this time by Shalom Keisar and the Kiryat Ono voice ensemble, recorded in 1977. How does…
MBS with Victoria Hazan, the Sephardic Anatolian voice of fire ?
November 6th, 2020. Shabbat is almost here And our star today is Victoria Hazan, an extraordinary Anatolian singer who moved to the USA in 1920 and recorded an album, Todas mis esperansas (all…
From the shtetl to the films: MBS with Yossele Rosenblatt, «The Jazz Singer» and A Yiddishe Momme
October 30th, 2020. Shabbat is almost here And our star today is Yossele Rosenblatt, cantor born in Ukraine in 1882 and settled in the USA from 1912, where he achieved…
Music Before Shabbat with the Romanian Gypsy «Paganini» who kept Jewish tunes alive
October 23th, 2020. Shabbat is almost here And a virtuoso Gypsy musician brings us the Jewish tunes of another time from Maramureș: Ion Covaci Hello! How are you? At this…
Music Before Shabbat with Suliman the Great, but the one of XX century!
October 16th, 2020. Shabbat is almost here And the Yemenite music, the enchanting sound that is the mix of so many scents, with Suliman the Great and his family, will…
Music Before Shabbat and before Simchat Torah, with Belf’s Romanian Orchestra: put on your dancing shoes ?
October 9th, 2020. Shabbat (and Simchat Torah) is almost here Put on your dancing shoes and get ready for Belf’s Romanian Orchestra and travel back in time more than one century…
Music Before Shabbat of Sukkot with one of those Algerian Jewish artists too little remembered: Cheikh Zouzou
October 2nd, 2020. Shabbat of Sukkot is almost here Let’s set the mood in our sukkah with some old Algerian music Hello! How are you? This is the first Sukkot…
Music Before Shabbat Shuvah with Kol Nidre by Yisrael Oshri
Shabbat Shuvah is almost here With Kol Nidre by Yisrael Oshri, getting into the mood for Yom Kippur Hello! How are you? I have been waiting many months since I…