Welcome to our truly unique roster of internationally renowned artists’ projects that expand our knowledge and imagination while touching our hearts. Each program has been designed and produced by the Other Music Academy in collaboration with internationally renowned artists inspired by Jewish and other cultural heritages. Often, the starting point is a newly discovered or re-discovered cultural treasure that had been overlooked or forgotten by history. In the hands of our artists, such treasures are catalysts to memory and imagination. Our offerings include classical orchestral and chamber ensembles, traditional and contemporary folk ensembles, cabaret performances, singer-songwriter evenings, hip-hop shows and more – each program with a surprising and often astonishing concept and back story that is certain to fascinate audiences. Here are our current offerings:
What connects musicians of today with the experiences of Yiddish-speaking prisoners-of-war (arestantn) 100 years ago in WWI German POW camps? That’s the riddle solved by world-renowned rapper, music producer and singer extraordinaire Josh “Socalled” Dolgin in this ingenious program. A rediscovered archive of previously unknown ethnographic recordings …
Did you know that the years between WWI and WWII witnessed a creative revolution in Yiddish poetry? Poets in Warsaw, Berlin, New York, Buenos Aires, and other centers of Yiddish culture gave voice to those tumultuous times in mame loshn (mother tongue), drawing from a treasure trove of expressions, metaphors, idioms, and imagery amassed …
What do you get when you take French esprit, Yiddish humor, historical recordings of klezmer music, superb musicianship, and an original Edison wax cylinder recorder and mix them all together in one theatrically-inspired program? Waxband, what else? The brainchild of Israeli/French visionary Amit Weisberger, this soulful, whimsical, and thought-provoking performance invites audiences to witness …