Wednesday, June 1 –  3 pm ET / 12 pm PT
Free Online Series
See “Ways to Watch” Below

On Wednesday, June 1, the first season of Secret Chord Concerts, a new series spotlighting top Jewish musicians worldwide today, will launch. Episode 1 will feature New Moon Rising, a trio of powerhouse female voices in Jewish music. Their original spiritual music is filled with lush, powerful harmonies interwoven with violin, mandolin and guitar. The group features Elana Arian, Deborah Sacks Mintz and Chava Mirel.

Photograph by Ayden Mayer. From left to right: Elana Arian, Deborah Sacks Mintz, Chava Mirel.

Secret Chord Concerts is a free on-demand video series featuring 15-25 minute performances from celebrated Jewish musicians representing a broad range of styles, heritages, and histories and recorded live in front of intimate audiences in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Season 1 episodes will air the first Wednesday of every month from June until October.

A cross-country partnership between the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History (The Weitzman) on historic Independence Mall in Philadelphia, and the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music (Lowell Milken Center) in Los Angeles, generated this new online offering. Both presenting organizations are committed to inspiring in people of all backgrounds a greater appreciation for the diversity of the American Jewish experience. This season’s episodes were filmed at The Weitzman, against the striking backdrop of Independence Hall, and in UCLA’s beautiful recording studio.

Episode Teaser

Ways to Watch

On Wednesday, June 1 at  12:00 p.m. PT / 3:00 p.m. ET, the first Secret Chord Concert will premiere on the Facebook pages of The Weitzman, the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. The series will be also be available on-demand on The Weitzman’s website, and on the Lowell Milken Center’s YouTube page.

This program is produced and presented by the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in partnership with the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music