Music

Bach, unplugged with The Revolution Orchestra

The Revolution Orchestra turns toward Bach in a joyful new season blurring the lines between reverence and play.

NOVEMBER 17, 2025|ByNERIA BARR

THE REVOLUTION Orchestra’s Roy Oppenheim (bottom) and Zohar Sharon.

Gilad Hazan’s stratified Arabic music offering captivates at Oud Festival

Gilad Hazan wowed the Confederation House audience with his electrifying instrumental skills and crosscultural-influenced scores.

NOVEMBER 16, 2025|ByBARRY DAVIS

Jeryko kicks off his tour on November 16 at Gray in Tel Aviv.

Jeryko to ‘break down walls with sound’ in global Israel premieres - preview

Yaniv Hoffman kicks off his tour on November 16 at Gray in Tel Aviv, followed by a November 17 Jerusalem show, anchoring a broader run that includes major venues such as New York City’s Irving Plaza.

NOVEMBER 14, 2025|ByJOANIE MARGULIES

The entrance to the Jerusalem Theatre is seen in a photo taken May 21, 2024

My Word: Making music amid the noise - opinion

The ideals of Koolulam, “a social-musical initiative aimed at strengthening the fabric of society,” sound lofty but the events are fun and unifying.

NOVEMBER 14, 2025|ByLIAT COLLINS

Are you listening to bots? Survey shows AI music is virtually undetectable

With 97% of listeners unable to tell AI from human-made tracks, Deezer warns of ethical and economic implications for artists and the global music market.

NOVEMBER 12, 2025ByREUTERS

A robot band perform at world's first embodied intelligent robot 4S store on August 06, 2025 in Beijing, China.

OpenAI used song lyrics in violation of copyright laws, German court says

The court in Munich found that ChatGPT was developed and trained on content from nine German songs.

NOVEMBER 11, 2025ByREUTERS

Jewish and Muslim comedians team up to turn tension into titters

"Comedy for Peace," an interfaith project founded by Israeli comedian Erik Angel, brings Jewish, Muslim, and Christian comics together to promote tolerance and unity through laughter.

NOVEMBER 11, 2025ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA

Comedians Gibran Saleem, left, and Erik Angel, right, are part of the Comedy 4 Peace project, which promotes religious tolerance among Jews, Muslims, and Christians through humor.

From India and the world with love: The superb offerings at the Jerusalem Oud Festival

This year’s Jerusalem International Oud Festival offers a broad sweep of ethnic and other music genres for our listening uplifting entertainment.

NOVEMBER 9, 2025ByBARRY DAVIS

Chitravina N. Ravikiran plays the chitravina, one of the lesser-known Indian string instruments.

Report: OpenAI is developing a tool for creating music based on text and audio

OpenAI is developing a tool that will allow the creation of music from text or voice, in collaboration with students from a prestigious music school in New York

NOVEMBER 8, 2025ByYINON BEN SHUSHAN

Judaism with a twang: Texan Joe Buchanan finds the common themes binding country music and Torah

To Buchanan, country music and the Torah have a lot in common – the sin, the redemption, the deception, and the heartbreak.

NOVEMBER 8, 2025ByDAVID BRINN

JOE BUCHANAN, flanked by Israeli and American flags, in his home musical workshop in Houston, Texas.

Early sound exposure shapes male and female brains differently, Hebrew U study finds

“What looks like the same experience at the surface may trigger completely different neural adaptations in each sex," said the leader of the experiment.

NOVEMBER 2, 2025ByPESACH BENSON/TPS

Research on the human brain shows that male and female brains develop differently due to early auditory experiences

Fattal Rock Festival 11: Who will Perform, when, and how to buy tickets

Fattal Hotels launches Fattal Rock Festival 11 in Eilat, March 12-14, 2026. Among the artists: Monica Sex, Aviv Geffen, Ethnix, Shlomi Shabbat, and Miri Mesika. The sale for club members has opened.

NOVEMBER 2, 2025ByMAARIV TOURISM DESK