LKQ’s concert and Summer Tea Dance in Clapham
http://www.omnibus-clapham.org/events/london-klezmer-quartet-tea-dance
is Sunday 13 July at 4.30pm
LKQ album launch
http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/the-london-klezmer-quartet/ is
Weds 20 August at 8pm
Amnon Shiloah, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Jewish music passed away in Jerusalem on Jul 11 2014 at the age of 85.
A long-time professor of musicology at Hebrew
University, Amnon Shiloah was an internationally respected and widely published
authority on Arabic and Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions, a
scholar who did both ethnomusicological fieldwork and traditional
historical research. Prof. Shiloah was a prolific author of books and
articles, and editor of records; He did an immense amount of groundbreaking fieldwork. His most valuable work may be his large
bibliographic compendium and his magnum opus “The Theory of Music in
Arabic Writings ca.900-1900” published by RILM in 1979.
Other works include: The Musical Tradition of Iraqi Jews,Music Subjects in the Zohar, Text and Indices, Jewish Musical Traditions, The Dimension of Music in Islamic and Jewish Culture, Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-cultural Study.…
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Guy Shakad has put together a theory of syllabes meter of the psalms, which makes interesting reading.
http://www.guyshaked.com/the-syllables-meter-of-the-psalms/
In honor of our Independence Day, here’s a video of The Star Spangled Banner in Yiddish. Sung by the Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus in NYC.
