Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

Tragedy Struck Composer Irving Berlin on Christmas Day. Years Later, He Would Write One of the All-Time Holiday Classics

White Christmas” is one of the world’s best-selling tunes and continues to be in rotation more than eight decades later ...
The Forward on MSN

How hundreds of forgotten klezmer tunes have been rescued from oblivion

Thanks to a mammoth klezmer digitization project, we can hear Jewish music that hasn't been played for generations.