Pro Musica Hebraica

08/17/2016

Listen live to our Fall 2015 concert on Mon. 9PM EST on WETA 90.9 FM: “The Music of Jewish Spain,” http://bit.ly/1iQPXcd

Tune in on Mondays at 9:00 pm for classical performances by top local musicians and ensembles, recorded at venues throughout the Washington area.

04/03/2016

Another review of last week's concert: "jaw-droppingly beautiful" http://fauxklore.livejournal.com/355741.html

About 5 years ago, I wrote an entry about Mark Glanville’s outstanding Pro Musica Hebraica concert. So I was excited to see that he would be back here for the Spring 2016 concert, along with two other singers, Mathias Haussmann and Anthony Russell, and pianist Alan Mason. Fortunately, my…

03/31/2016

"I have to really commend Pro Musica Hebraica – they really accomplished what they set out to do, to exhibit the variety, seriousness, and artistic merits of the Jewish art song of the past two centuries. My only regret is that it was a one-time performance – I would want more people to be able to go — but it’s one I’m very happy I got to see."

DC Metro Theater Arts reviews our latest concert: http://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2016/03/30/pro-musica-hebraica-wandering-stars-2centuries-of-european-jewish-song/

I left The Kennedy Center Terrace Theater last night walking about in that peaceful sort of glow one gets after an experience of great beauty; a kind of encounter that seems to refocus the world in front of one’s eyes, till it seems opaquely luminous with inner light; the kind that more than a littl…

03/28/2016

TONIGHT at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts : Wandering Stars: Three Generations of European Jewish Song http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/RQPMB

03/14/2016

March 14 at 9 PM on WETA-FM: Broadcast of Pro Musica Hebraica’s Concert of Masterpieces of Pre–1933 Europe.

http://promusicahebraica.org/2016/03/14/march-14-at-9-pm-on-weta-fm-broadcast-of-pro-musica-hebraicas-concert-of-masterpieces-of-pre-1933-europe/

02/21/2016

Wandering Stars: Three Generations of European Jewish Song http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/RQPMB

12/15/2015

http://forward.com/culture/music/326499/how-evgeny-kissin-became-a-one-man-yiddish-pride-movement/

The fact that Evgeny Kissin is a virtuoso pianist is hardly news. But lately, he’s become an ambassador for Yiddish poetry — reciting classics and declaiming some of his own. Kissin explains his commitment to Yiddish culture.

12/15/2015

Boston Globe names ARC Ensemble's "Chamber Works by Jerzy Fitelberg" the "biggest surprise" in its review of the best classical albums of the year. https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2015/12/12/the-best-albums-classical-music/JGENKruUT2FrhPHWhtOACP/story.html

From reclusive Russian masters and overlooked Soviet-era composers to a pair of Boston mainstay ensembles, the best classical music albums of the year.

11/16/2015

Live streaming tonight at 9PM on WETA: Three Generations of Israeli Composers with Ariel Quartet http://www.weta.org/fm/features/Front-Row-Washington .XLr5Zffa.dpuf

Tune in on Mondays at 9:00 pm for classical performances by top local musicians and ensembles, recorded at venues throughout the Washington area.

09/20/2015

DC people, save the date.

Pro Musica Hebraica presents a concert of Sephardic and Spanish Jewish music with audience favorites the Amernet String Quartet and friends mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway and guitarist Adam Levin.

06/21/2015

Biblical themes? Liturgical uses? The composer’s biography?

05/07/2015

TONIGHT: Jewish Classical Masterpieces of Pre-1933 Europe at the The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. A few tickets left: http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/RPPMB

Pro Musica Hebraica presents a listening tour of the moment just before 1933 through three unique works all composed between 1928 and 1931 performed byperennial favorites the ARC Ensemble.