Alphabetical Index to Website Entries: B
Balladeer Music--General
Catalog: International
An online commercial site to purchase older sound recordings. Recommendation
about reliability unknown.
http://www.balladeer.com/cat/international/
Shlomo Bar, the founder, Habrera Hativeet. See: Habrera Hativeet, under performing groups.
Roslyn Barak
American Reform cantor and opera singer. Born in New York City. Attended Manhattan High School of Music & Art. B.A. in vocal performance, Manhattan School of Music. Master of Sacred Music, 1986, Hebrew Union College. Also attended SF School of Psychology. Made Carnegie Hall debut with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of New York. 1974-77, Israel National Opera. 1987 began as Cantor of the Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco. Won Liederkranz Award and the Minna Kaufman Ruud Foundation prize. CD: "The Jewish Soul".
http://www.emanuelsf.org/about_staff_barak.htm
Baron's Course in Jewish Music
Tulane University Music Department. Dr. Baron offers a survey of "Jewish sacred and secular music from Biblical times to the present. Considers
music of the Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Yemenite, Israeli, Falasha, and American traditions."
http://www.tulane.edu/~music/describe.html
Beat'achon
A Jewish A Cappella singing group of six men. The group tours. No upcoming performance information is yet available on the website, but there is contact information.
http://beatachon.com/about.html
Jack Beilan & Friends
Jack Beilen & Friends, from Los Angeles, opened up a new website to promote the new CD From the Heart of a Jewish Soul which features 21 musicians, all with extensive professional experience in the pop music world (such as members working with various popular artists James Taylor, Eric Clapton, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart or Neville Brothers). The group is also available for selected appropriate synagogue and spiritual events and performances. They performed on December 3, 2000, at the Theatre For The Performing Arts at California State University at Northridge. The music is aimed at Reform congregations and those welcoming contemporary-influenced Jewish spiritual music. Jack Beilan has been Musical Director for Valley Outreach Synagogue, a Reform Jewish congregation in Los Angeles.
http://www.serenitysong.com/
Ben Steinberg
Ben Steinberg is a well-known contemporary synagogue composer with numerous awards and achievements, living in Toronto and currently serving as Director of Music at Temple Sinai in Toronto, Canada. Steinberg has composed for orchestra, chamber ensemble, chorus and solo voice. Many of his works are published by Transcontinental in New York.
http://www.musiccentre.ca/CMC/dac_rca/eng/p_/Steinberg_Ben.html
Raizie Benguigui
Raizie is a singer who has fused traditional lyrics with modern rhythms, singing in four languages (English, Hebrew, French and Spanish). Raizie has
performed for women audiences in Venezuela, Israel and Canada and has produced a CD for Jewish women.
http://www.raizie.com/
David Ben Or
Choir Director of Gan HaLev. David Ben Or has put up choral arrangements with midi files, score, Hebrew, transliteration and English to liturgical texts. Gan HaLev is a post-denominational Jewish Congregation of the San Geronimo Valley, Marin County, California.
http://www.ganhalev.org/zmirot/zmirot.html
Daniel Ben Shalom
Daniel ben Shalom has a new CD, Tefilati. "Contempory original musical artist from Israel combining jazz, blues, rock and more with the essence of spirituality and soul." That's what the website says. The music is an interesting blend of Yeshivish orthorock with some cool jazz and a bit of blues and Calpop and even a bit of samba thrown in. The website has some very nice graphics and use of flash technology. A bio, photo and links included on the site. The music holds some parallels to recent WestCoast releases.
http://www.danielbenshalom.com/flash/index.html
Bruce Benson
Cantor Bruce Benson specializes in new age Jewish music. He has a recording with Kenny G and a Jazz service and a rock service. Lots of synthesizers and keyboard.
www.brucebenson.com
Herman Berlinski
Herman Berlinski, the great composer of Jewish music, including synagogue organ music, was born in Leipzig on August 18, 1910. He studied piano, composition and conducting at the Leipzig Conservatory 1927-1932. He studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris from 1934-1938, and the Schola Cantorum from 1937-1939. He emigrated to the United States in 1941. This article explores some of his life and the performances of some of his music in Europe.
Lauren Bernofsky
Lauren Bernofsky is a composer and violinist living in Baltimore, MD, and educated at Hartt College, Boston University and the New England Conservatory. Her music has been published by several houses including Boosey & Hawkes.
http://laurenb.home.sprynet.com/index.htm
Leonard Bernstein
The official website of Leonard Bernstein includes... well everything. Very comprehensive.
Includes a biography and a series of "time line" events.
http://www.leonardbernstein.com/
Ernest Bloch
A brief biography with a listing of works, a selected discography and some interesting links.
http://www.schirmer.com/composers/bloch_bio.html
A Young Person's Guide to Ernest Bloch
This interesting site from Japan on the composer Ernest Bloch provides a "chronological list" which is a listing of important dates of the composer's life and a listing of compositions by the composer.
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/bloch/
Binyomin Ginzberg Trio
Binyomin Ginzberg has coined a new word to define his Jewish music: "Yeshivish". It defines one of the musical styles he performs with his small ensemble in New York. The website is of his local New York wedding band. They play "Yeshivish, Chassidic, Israeli, Klezmer, and Contemporary Jewish music as well as Jazz and Classical music." Contact information provided.
http://www.jewishmusician.com/index.html
Betty Silberman
Betty Silberman, a dynamic Yiddish and cabaret singer has a website listing her recent CD's and contact information for performances. Based in Boston.
http://www.bettysilberman.com/
Ernest Bloch
by Claude Torres, of Montpellier,France
"Discographie du compositeur suisse Ernest Bloch"
The website includes a biography, a list of works by style, chronologically and alphabetically. There are also links to other important Bloch websites.
http://claude.torres1.perso.sfr.fr/Bloch/index.html
Mark Bloom
A Minnesota musician has mounted a website about his programs, recordings and band. Sample reviews are offered as references about the quality of
his work.
http://www.markbloom.com/
Bohlman's
Course in Jewish Music
University of Chicago Jewish Studies College offers a course in Jewish
music taught by Philip Bohlman.
http://www2.uchicago.edu/adm-registrar/an9798/jewstdc.html
Bonnie Abrams & Allen Hopkins
Bonnie Abrams and Allen Hopkins perform acoustic folk music. Bonnie writes and sings new songs. A CD called A Sudenyu of Yiddish offers traditional and contemporary folk and theater songs in Yiddish.
http://dynrec.com/bonnieabrams/
Di Bostoner Klezmer
di bostoner klezmer is a trio of talented musicians which plays a full range of klezmer, traditional Jewish, Hasidic and Israeli music - with swing on the side. Public concerts (from Chamber of Commerce to library to theater), simkhes and holiday celebrations, and specialized venues (nursing homes, kids' camps) round out our resume. For more information, visit www.yiddishmusic.com, contact Dena (dobe) Ressler at 781-643-1957, or email us at: klezmer@yiddishmusic.com. Di Bostoner Klezmer's CD is expected during the spring of 2004.
Brandeis University Radio: WBRS
Brandeis University's radio station has three Sunday programs relating to Jewish music. At 11:00, hosted by Shachar Gilad, is Kol Yisrael which features Israeli music. At 12:30 is a program entitled Just Like You hosted by Forsan Hussein and Michael Bravly which has talk and music about Palestinian and Israeli music. At 2:00 is The Yiddish Hour with host Sara Ravid. Students wishing to participate or share music for any of these shows should contact the main station number at 781-736-5277. WBRS has a policy to play the music it receives.
http://www.wbrs.org/
Brandeis-Bardin Klezmer Ensemble
This loosely configured ensemble, established in 1993 under the auspices of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, is currently based in Hollywood and Beverly Hills, California. The group is made up of professional and recording studio musicians. They perform extensively in the area and on television.
http://members.aol.com/bbiklezmer/index.htm
Brave
Old World
Homepage of the Brave Old World klezmer band, this site includes both
an English and German version, with complete discography, biography, contact
information, tour dates and accessible sound samples. (One of my favorite groups!)
http://braveoldworld.com/
David Broza
Commercial site promoting the music of David Broza, popular Israeli rock star. Includes a biography and discography, quotes from critics and some sound samples.
http://Broza.com/
Bruce M. Adler
Website promoting the compositions and cassettes of Bruce and Donna Adler. Jewish music that searches for spirituality done in a folk/bluegrass style. The Adlers are Reconstructionist and Reform rabbis.
http://w3.one.net/~bruad/index.html
Marcelo Bruckman, Cantor
The cantor of the Comunidad Israelita del Uruguay has a webpage dedicated to his teachers and a vitae. In Spanish and English. He includes audio clips of cantor and choir with enjoyable melodies and arrangements.
http://www.arroba.nu/jazan/
Budapester Klezmer Band
The first Jewish band founded in Hungary since the Holocaust, the Budapester Klezmer band was started in 1990 by Ferenc Javori. The tremendous goal they set for themselves is the reclamation of Jewish musical traditions in Hungary. The group has participated in international music festivals and has 3 CDs, one published by Harmonia Mundi.
http://www.datanet.hu/klezmer/
Budowitz Sacred and Secular
Budowitz is an ensemble that plays nineteenth century klezmer music on original instruments. The musicians in this group provide a sound steeped both in musicological and historical knowledge as well as the subtlety and coloration described by the reviewers as "pure emotion." Budowitz is staffed by leading lights in the klezmer world including Joshua Horowitz and Merlin Shepherd. Of special note is an interview with Budowitz as well as a history of klezmer.
http://members.styria.com/budowitz/