Everybody’s favorite Jewish Vulcan, Leonard Nimoy, will beam down the songs of our people in a new radio series entitled “American Jewish Music from the Milken Archive with Leonard Nimoy,” to be broadcast in two 13-hour episodes on XM Satellite Radio. The program will feature “biblical epics set to music by Kurt Weill, Jewish legends in tone poems, film scores and operas, symphonies and concertos based on Jewish themes, Yiddish theater songs and world premieres of recently discovered Jewish compositions by Leonard Bernstein.”
When we turn off the Beastie Boys for one sec and really think about this, we deeply appreciate the work that the Milken Archive is doing: amassing and archiving every note and tone of the soundtrack of American Jewish history for future generations, who will probably be able to download Theodore Bikel singing “If I Were A Rich Man” directly into their brains.
Getting back to Spock, we had no idea of his own vast contribution to the canon. Muchos kudos to Jewlicious for uncovering this video gem of the pointy-eared one belting out The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. We promise it’ll make your day.