Since I was a boy, my musical heroes have been jazz musicians — Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, John Coltrane. My own trumpet playing was good enough to get me the solo chair in the school ...

Being little more than a husk of keratin hacked off the head of a ram, the shofar is not a very versatile instrument. Because there’s no real mechanism to alter pitch within the hollow horn, the ...

Much of the work of Wilmington native and classical music composer Meira Warshauer has focused on the spiritual realm of life. But with her most recent piece, “Tekeeyah (a call) – Concerto for ...

This weekend, don’t be alarmed if you hear trumpeting in the streets. You could be witnessing the sound of a horn steeped in thousands of years of Jewish tradition. The shofar is coming outside for ...

In a year of sustainability and carbon footprints, high gas and hybrids, the shofar is the simplest, most eco-friendly method of reaching the Jewish community with a vital message. LOS ANGELES (JTA) – ...