Event: The Art of Jewish Music, à la Russe:
A Centennial Celebration of the Society for Jewish Folk Music
Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Price: General Admission, $15; Students, $10
Location: Hebrew College, Berenson Hall, 160 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA
Klára Móricz, Valentine Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Amherst College, explores the Russian origins of Jewish music as a serious art form and the relationship of this body of work to emerging 20th century Jewish nationalism and modernism. Musical illustrations performed by pianist Edwin Swanborn, tenor Elias Rosemberg and soprano
Lynn Torgrove.
Details and online registration at hebrewcollege.edu/events.
On December 18, 7:30 p.m., at Hebrew College, 160 Herrick Road, Klára Móricz will explore the Russian origins of Jewish music as a serious art form and the relationship of this body of work to emerging 20th century Jewish nationalism and modernism.
The Art of Jewish Music, à la Russe: A Centennial Celebration of the Society for Jewish Folk Music will be illustrated with live musical performances by pianist Edwin Swanborn, tenor Elias Rosemberg and soprano Lynn Torgove.
Tickets are $!5 for general admission; $10 for students.
How does music define a people? And how does a people define an art form—music—that embodies the essence of national, ethnic or religious identity?
This lecture-performance marks the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1908. The Society, which thrived in various forms, first in Russia and then in Vienna until the rise of Hitler, brought together the talents of Joseph Achron, Michail Gnesin, Alexander Krejn and others who—unlike their Western European counterparts—maintained a connection to the Jewish community while creating serious works of Jewish music for the concert stage.
Klára Móricz is the Valentine Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Amherst College and author of Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music (University of California Press, 2008).
For additional information and to register online, please visit hebrewcollege.edu/events.