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Mickey Katz: The Great American Big Bands
Musi-Cal North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance
Use the search function and type “klezmer” for a chronological listing of several upcoming events. Gives dates, time, place and links to band websites. Includes links to venue locations with local contact information, which is very helpful for those wishing to attend the concerts.
http://concerts.calendar.com/
The Castro Valley Chamber Orchestra
The Castro Valley Chamber Orchestra presents the World Premiere of
EISENHOWER FAREWELL ADDRESS
for orchestra and orator by Jack Curtis Dubowsky, conducted by Josh
Cohen, orated by Scott Budman.
VENUE: Castro Valley Center for the Arts, 19501
Redwood Road, Castro Valley, CA 94546. (Cross Street is Heyer Avenue.)
TICKETS: Suggested Donation: Adults $ 10.00.
Students over 13 & Seniors $ 5.00. Children 12 and under are free
BOX OFFICE: Tickets are available at the door, or at the
Castro Valley Center for the Arts Box Office, open Thursdays and
Fridays from 3:00 – 5:00 PM and one hour before the start of every
CVUSD or CVAF production. Castro Valley Center for the Arts telephone
510-889-8961. Or call the Castro Valley Adult School Office
510-886-1000.
KlezFest London 2006 alongside a Jewish Song School this summer
KlezFest London 2006 Sunday 13-Friday 18 August
Jewish Song School Sunday 13-Friday 18 August
Ot Azoy! Yiddish Course Sunday 6-Friday 11 August
KlezFest London is a hands-on learning experience with luminaries of the Klezmer revival
from Europe and America, focusing on the style, ornamentation, rhythm and repertoire of
Eastern European Jewish music, song and dance. It is an inspirational and life-enhancing
experience for amateur and professional instrumentalists and singers. In 2006, KlezFest
includes a special parallel strand for professional klezmer players as well as the
parallel Song School. KlezFest is preceded by a fantastic one-week Yiddish course ideal
for complete beginners and for singers but catering also for advanced language students.
Booking is now open and details and registration can be found on Web www.jmi.org.uk
Light a Candle for Jewish Music in Greater Boston
Boston Jewish Music Festival
Preview Concert
HABANOT NECHAMA
January 10, 2010
7:30 PM
Temple Aliyah, Needham
See the group that’s all the rage, one of Israel’s hottest acts, Habanot Nechama,
in a special concert at Temple Aliyah in Needham.
The concert is sponsored by Temple Aliyah, Temple Beth Shalom, the Israeli Consulate
and the Boston Jewish Music Festival
Ticket Price:$18
Order tickets online at
www.templealiyah.tix.com
Temple Aliyah
1664 Central Ave., Needham, MA
Preliminary Schedule
Boston Jewish
Music Festival
Saturday 3/6: Opening Night Gala Concert, 30th Anniversary of the Klezmer Conservatory
Band with special guests vocalist Judy Bressler and Don Byron, clarinet. Also: JDub
recording artists Golem.
7:30 PM
at Berklee Performance Center.
Sunday 3/7: Family Music Concerts, 1 PM. Shira Kline and Shir-La-La, JCC in Newton;
Peter & Ellen Allard, Metrowest Community Day School; Yehuda Katz, Sharon/South
Shore.…
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Courses in Boston with Yelena Neplok
New England Conservatory, 241 St. Botolph Street, Boston, presents two
ten week courses with Instructor Yelena Neplok. “Eastern European Jewish
Musical Traditions” runs on Wednesdays, February 15-May 3, 2006, from
7:00 -8:30 p.m. and “The Art of Russian Piano Music” runs on Tuesdays,
February 14-April 25, 2006, from 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Registration starts on January 10th.
Financial Aid available/*/ (call 617-585-1125 to apply)
For more information, contact the instructor at 617-566-7969 or email:
nigunens@hotmail.com
Tuition for NEC School of Continuing Education is $325 – for non credit,
and $450 for the credit.
Music of the Jewish People Online Course
There’s still room and time to sign up! The “Music of the Jewish People,” a full semester, tremendously fun online course at the college level is being offered by Hebrew College. I’m teaching this course for HC, and looking forward to a variety of participants, from college students and up, from anywhere in the US or abroad. I understand that there is still time to sign up to get credits (better hurry and not forget to sign upafter Rosh Hashanah!)
You can also take the course as a “non-credit” course and many people not needing the course for a degree may choose that route. Either way, for credit or non-credit, I’m expecting it to be exciting.
Course Description:
Have you ever wondered what Jews sang in synagogue in Colonial America?…
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My Online Course! Music of the Jewish People
New this fall from Hebrew College:
Online courses from the School of Jewish Music
I’m teaching an online course in Jewish music through Hebrew College of Boston. It’s called “Music of the Jewish People.” You won’t have to be able to read music, although of course, that always helps! However, it’s not actually required for taking this course. It’s all online, and there’s no particular “class time.” You “attend” the course completely online, get your resources and discussion online. The course is a college-level course and is intended for individuals who have completed high school and above.
You have to register and pay for the course registration through the Hebrew College.
After September 4th, there is a late registration fee, so register right away!
Anyone interested in taking your course should be directed to the Registrar (Marilyn Jaye – mjaye@hebrewcollege.edu or 617-559-8642).…
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Triangle Fire Remembered
the culminating centennial event — An evening of music, spoken word poetry, and solidarity in commemoration of the 146 victims will be held in New York City. The event is free but you must have a ticket for admission.
Get your tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/164102
You’ll get to hear Metropolitan Klezmer performing klezmer music written about the tragedy, uncovered 100 years later. Spoken word poetry from youthful voices from the New York City area. Clara Lemlich’s historical speech from the very stage where the Uprising of the 20,000 began. Solidarity Forever by the NYC Labor Chorus. Irish folk rock from Larry Kirwan of Black 47. Worker testimonials from Bangladesh, Egypt, and West Virginia.
The event takes place in the evening following the annual memorial commemoration at the site of the fire.…
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“Weinberger Tour”
“WEINBERGER TOUR” in Czech republic
Czech cellist Frantisek Brikcius will appear with pianist Tomas Visek as part of
the project “Weinberger Tour” with composition written by Jewish composers on the
opening concert on Monday 23rd April 2007 in Spanish Synagogue in
Prague and continuing on tour until 29 October 2007, 7.30 pm, Pálffy palace – final concert
Černovice 3 November 2007, 7pm.
The concert tour “Weinberger Tour” of the Czech cellist Frantisek Brikcius and
Czech pianist Tomas Visek is in remembrance of Jewish composer, Jaromir
Weinberger (1896 – 1967), who was born in Prague (40 years since his tragic death)
and introducing to the audience lesser known works of Jewish “Terezín” composers. On
the program are compositions written by Erwin Shulhoff (Sonata), James Simon
(Lamento 1938 – Czech premiere), Irena Kosikova (d-Fence – premiere) and Jaromir
Weinberger (Une cantilene jalouse & Colloque sentimental – arr.…
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Chamber Music – New York Style” at Temple Israel of the City of New York
On Thursday, April 22 at 8 PM, the Musicians of Lenox
Hill, under the artistic direction of Soo-Kyung Park, will perform “Chamber Music –
New York Style” at Temple Israel of the City of New York, 112 East 75th Street, New
York City The program includes Three American Piecesfor flute and piano by Lukas
Foss, Gershwin’s Embraceable You and I’ve Got Rhythm arranged for solo piano by Earl
Wilde, Dvořák’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in Eb Major, B 162, Op.87 and Luminaria for
violin and harp by Kenji Bunch, who has been called “a composer to watch” by the New
York Times and is quickly emerging as one of the most prominent American composers
of his generation.
New York Concert Review hailed the Musicians of Lenox Hill as “exemplary throughout”
and “extremely impressive, technically and musically”.…
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CALL FOR PAPERS: JEWISH CULTURAL STUDIESPAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Inaugural volume in book series on Jewish Cultural Studies, edited by Simon J. Bronner, Distinguished University Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, Oxford, UK
Format and Guidelines: 8,000-word essays in English, prepared electronically
in Word, following Oxford Guide to Style (humanistic style with endnotes)
Deadline: May 1, 2006
Contact: Professor Simon J. Bronner, School of Humanities, The Pennsylvania
State University, 777 West Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA 17057-4898, USA,
sbronner@psu.edu
The Leo Kraft 90th Birthday Concert at the Center for Jewish History
On Sunday, March 11th at 3 PM the Society will present The Leo Kraft 90th
Birthday Concert at the Center for Jewish History. This performance will
feature some of New York’s finest chamber music players, including flutist
Patricia Spencer, clarinetists Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima, violinist
Renne Jolles, violist Mark Halloway, and cellist Marcy Rosen, as well pianist
Morey Ritt, who will premiere Testimonium, a new work Kraft has written
for her.
Among other works on the program are New Songs from Old, a fantasy for
solo clarinet based on traditional Jewish motifs and Seven Hebrew Songs to
poems by medieval Hebrew poets, sung by the American baritone Thomas
Meglioranza, with David Jolley, horn and Konstantza Chernov, piano. Hailed by The
Boston Globe for his “vocal distinction and expressive warmth,” Meglioranza
is one of this country’s most sought-after and unique young singers.…
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Analyzing your area of research – Jewish Music
Once you have selected an area to research, the next step is to figure out where your area of research fits in to the existing literature.
A. Is your area of research too broad or too narrow?
What specific question or questions do you want to answer as you do your research? (i.e. what is your hypothesis or hypotheses? You may need to modify these as you do your research)
If your area of research is too broad you will be overwhelmed with too much information and will have trouble figuring out what to write about. Some areas of research might be fine if you were writing a full length book, but not practical for a 10 page paper. Try limiting your area of research in terms of time period, geography, or noteworthy individuals.…
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Musica Judaica Issues: 1991-92, Volume XII
This Table of Contents Service is provided by The Jewish Music WebCenter on behalf of The American Society for Jewish Music.
Volume XII. 5754/1991-92
Editor:
Neil W. Levin
Assistant Editor, Alexander V. Knapp
Founder, Albert Weisser (1918-1982)
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| A Song to Heal Your Wounds: Traditional Lullabies in the Repertoire of the Jews of Iraq | Sara Manasseh | p.1 |
| A Golden Age for Jewish Composers in Paris: 1820-1865 | John H. Baron | p.30 |
| The Message of Moses and Aaron as Reflection of Arnold Schoenberg's spiritual Quest | Boaz Tarsi | p.52 |
| An Historic Israeli-American Musical Dialogue in New York: The Counter-Harmonies Conference | Malcolm Miller | p.65 |
| Edith Gerson-Kiwi: In Memoriam | Edwin Seroussi | p.75 |
| Reviews: Susana Weich-Shahak, ed., Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle (Jerusalem, 1989) | Laurence D. Loeb | p. |
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Musica Judaica Issues: 2003-2004, Volume XVII
This Table of Contents Service is provided by The Jewish Music WebCenter on behalf of The American Society for Jewish Music.
Volume XVII. 2003-2004
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
Arbie Orenstein
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| President's Greetings | p. iv | |
| From the Editors | p. vii | |
| Marriage and Music as Metaphor: The Wedding Odes of Leon Modena and Salamone Rossi | Don Harran | p. 1 |
| Don Harran p. 1 The Cantorial Fantasia Revisited: New Perspectives on an AShkenazic Musical Genre | Geoffrey Goldberg | p. 33 |
| Where Musical Realms Meet: Hermann Zivi--An Exemplar of the German-Jewish Cantorate | Tina Fruhauf | p. 87 |
| A Conversation with Miriam Gideon (1906-1996) | Judith Shira Pinnolis | p. 107 |
| Problems Concerning the History of Jewish Music | Bence Szabolsci Translaed by Stephen Erdely | p. 143 |
| A Conference on The St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music (1908-1938) held at the University of Potsdam, Germany (May, 2004) | Malcolm Miller | p. |
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Max Stern’s Messer Marco Polo at New York City Opera VOX Showcase
VOX: Showcasing American Composers 2006
Produced by New York City Opera
Presented by the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University
566 LaGuardia Place (Washington Square Park South)
May 6 – 7, 2006
FREE
Sunday, MAY 7, 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Stephen Andrew Taylor, Paradises Lost, libretto by Kate Gale
Max Stern, Messer Marco Polo
Directions to Skirball Center:
The Skirball Center is located at 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square Park South, within a few blocks of most subway lines, including West 4th St. (A, C, E, F, V, and S), 8th Street (N, R, W), Astor Place (6) and Christopher Street (1).
Jewish Music Forum features Ezro Malakov
The Jewish Music Forum is offering a program being given at the Center for Jewish History
on Monday, March 2nd at 7 PM.
Celebrating the release of an important new book by Dr. Evan Rapport, Greeted with Smiles: Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York (Oxford University Press), with live music examples by some of New York’s most respected Bukharian musicians led by master singer Ezro Malakov, this promises to be a wonderfully informative and entertaining evening.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY
Please RSVP at: info@jewishmusicforum.org
Reception to follow.
Additional information about the program, Dr. Rapport and the performers is below.
I hope you will be able to join us on Monday, March 2nd. Admission is free.
Please RSVP to info@jewishmusicforum.org.…
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Music in Our Time: 2009
Sunday, June 7th at the Center for Jewish History
Celebrating the Siegmeister Centenary
“Music in Our Time,” the annual concert of Jewish music by contemporary composers, presented by the American Society for Jewish Music in association with the American Jewish Historical Society, will be given on Sunday, June 7th at 3 PM at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, NYC).
For tickets $18 ($12 members); $6 for Students and Seniors, call 212-868-4444 or
www.smarttix.com or
contact the Box Office: (917) 606-8200 /
href=”mailto:boxoffice@cjh.org”boxoffice@cjh.org.
Melodia Women’s Choir in Manhattan with Becca Schack World Premier
The Melodia Women’s Choir will present an all female performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria in D Major and contemporary works, including the world premiere of Becca Schack‘s new commissioned piece “In My end is My Beginning” based on a text by T. S. Eliot.
The concert is being held
Saturday November 17 at 8 PM, and
Sunday, November 18 at 3 PM at
St. Peter’s Church,
346 West 20th Street, New York City, New York.
Melodia will be joined by an all-women
instrumental chamber ensemble.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door.
For information, call (212) 252-4134, or visit
www.melodiawomenschoir.org.
Cantors Sing Broadway for Benefit
From “West Side Story” to “Wicked,” the music of the Broadway theatre
will be highlighted at the “Cantors’ Cabaret” concert at 7p.m.,
Thursday, February 15, 2007 at Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 W 83rd Street off
Central Park West.
Joining Rodeph Sholom’s Cantor Rebecca Garfein and Cantorial
Intern, Jennifer Strauss-Klein are New York Metro Area Cantors, Claire Franco,
Daniel Singer, Howard Stahl and pianist, Jonathan Faiman. The concert, a
light-hearted tribute to the Broadway theatre will benefit the School of Sacred
Music Scholarship Fund at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and
Project Kehila, Rodeph Sholom’s response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
To date, Project Kehila has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to the hard-hit
Gulf community.
General admission tickets to the “Cantors’ Cabaret” are $25 in advance/$36 at the
door; Senior citizen tickets (age 65 and above) are $18.…
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ECS Publishing –Jewish Choral Music
Dr. Stanley Hoffman, Chief Editor at ECS publishing, has considerably enlarged a Jewish choral composition catalogue at ECS. The catalogue is growing and is available online. ECS Publishing is the parent company of E. C. Schirmer Music Company, Galaxy Music Corporation, Highgate Press, Ione Press, and the record label, ARSIS Audio. ECS incorporated in 1993 in Boston, Massachusetts. ECS Publishing is the exclusive American distributer for Édition Delrieu, Gaudia Music and Arts, Vireo Press, Dunstan House, and Randol Bass Music. ECS is also a non-exclusive distributor of many Stainer and Bell Ltd. products. E. C. Schirmer Music Company remains one of a few American independent classical music publishers in business today.
http://www.ecspublishing.com/jewishMusic.html
Choral Music Publishing
Looking for choral music for your group? ECS Publishing npw has a division that publishes Jewish choral music. It is edited by Dr. Stanley Hoffman, a composer and Chief music editor. The catalog is growing. Currently it includes works by Robert Applebaum, Judith Zaimont, Stanley Hoffman, Bella Gottesman, Vladimir Heyfetz, Mark Zukerman (Sutzkever, Olshansky, Bugatch and more). http://www.ecspublishing.com/jewishMusic.html
New York Klezmer Series on Tuesday
Tomorrow night, Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel will be opening the New York Klezmer Series with the Dave Levitt Trio, featuring Mike Cohen (clarinet), Christina
Crowder (accordion) and Dave Levitt (trombone).
It’s a wild mix of original and revived material, including songs from the
repertoire of Marty Levitt and Harriet Kane. Come hear songs you won’t hear anywhere else!
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, 30 W. 68th St., NYC
http://aaronalexander.com/wp/concert-schedule
Concert: $15. Jam session afterward.
Klezmer Instrumental Music Class, 5:30-7pm. $25 per class.
Full night pass – $35 (includes class, concert & jam session)
Jazz artist Matt Savage
Jazz composer and Bösendorfer piano artist Matt Savage and his Trio will celebrate his 16th birthday at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, 30 W. 68th Street, NYC, on Saturday, May 10, 2008, at 8 pm with an electrifying performance of award winning original compositions and jazz standards. The concert is free of charge and open to the community. Suggested donations ($20 / $10 students) will benefit Kulanu, or “All of Us,” the innovative weekly course offered by Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, open to all Jewish children who have Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
Jewish Composers may submit Peformance Requests
An open letter from the American Society for Jewish Music:
Dear Jewish music composer:
The American Society for Jewish Music would like to consider your music for performance at its annual concert at the Center for Jewish History in New York City on Monday, June 2nd, 2008. Your music will be given a first-class performance in a prominent New York venue. Please submit by November 16, 2007 one vocal work for one or two solo voices with keyboard or small chamber ensemble accompaniment. Pieces should be about 4-10 minutes long and well-crafted. (The majority of the committee has a preference for “Art Music.”) The piece should have some sort of Jewish musical, thematic or textual content, and the composer must be living or working in the U.S.…
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Silver, Julie
American. Singer. Songwriter. Julie Silver was raised in Newton, Massachusetts. By 18, she was leading song sessions throughout the Reform Jewish movement, and playing coffeehouses in and around Boston. She was graduated from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and was selected by her senior class to deliver the commencement address and sing an original song at Graduation in May, 1988. After college, Silver landed a job as an on-air personality at WMJX, Magic 106.7 in Boston, a contemporary music radio station. She started as a weekend DJ, and quickly became the host of Bedtime Magic, a top show of the Boston radio market. It was a natural fit for Silver who combined comic timing with a silky-smooth speaking voice.
Silver moved to Santa Monica in June 1994 to continue writing and recording.…
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Achishena, Tziona
American-born Israeli. Tziona Achishena provided this autobiographical sketch: “Tziona’s Achishena’s rich and soulful voice weaves its way through her new disc, “Miriam’s Drum”, created in collaboration with percussionist Shani Ben Canar. The album features original melodies to ancient Hebrew prayers “received” through her intuitive musicianship, and enlivened by world class percussion, transcendent harmonies, and inspired vocal improvisation. The album’s release marks the culmination of years of musical and spiritual searching. Interestingly, this process began, not through music training, but through dance. From early childhood to her first years in college at Berkeley, Tziona spent much of her time in the dance studio, studying all the major western dance forms from Ballet to Modern dance. At home, however, she was singing; and experiencing through her voice the beginnings of a sense of the revelation of soul.…
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Andy Statman Live in Chicago
Coming on June 30th, 2008
“Andy Statman is the real thing – a musician’s musician.” –The New Yorker
“It’s the music of Jewish mystics” – The New York Times
“A fascinating & moving mixture” – Jazz Times
WHAT: Andy Statman will be performing live at “The Song & The Spirit”
WHEN: Monday, June 30, 2008 7:30 PM
WHERE: North Shore Center for the Performing Arts,
9501 Skokie Blvd. Skokie, IL
TICKET PRICES (in advance) $25, $36, $60
Purchase tickets online at:
http://www.lubavitchchabad.org/songspirit
For more information call Megan Ensign at 773-262-2770
Zalman Mlotek’s Magical World of Yiddish Song
Sunday, December 7, 2014 at 3pm
On Stage at Kingsborough Community College
All performances take place at the Leon M. Goldstein Performing Arts Center on the campus of Kingsborough Community College, 2001 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn, New York 11235.
For ticket information click here
Presented in Association with The National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene
Musica Judaica Issues: 1987-88, Volume X
This Table of Contents Service is provided by The Jewish Music WebCenter on behalf of The American Society for Jewish Music.
Volume X. Number 1. 5749/1987-88
Editor:
Israel J. Katz
Review Editor, Neil W. Levin
Dedicated to the Memory of Eric Werner (1901-1988)
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Eric Werner (1901-1988): A Bibliography of His Collected Writings | Israel J. Katz | p.1 |
| Eric Werner: A Personal Memoir | Judith K. Eisenstein | p.37 |
| The Hazzanic Recitative | Max Wohlberg | p.40 |
| A Possible Influence of Traditional Chant on a Synagogue Motet of Salomone Rossi | Joshua R. Jacobson | p.52 |
| Revival and Renewal: Can Jewish Ethnic Tradition Survive the Melting Pot? | Amnon Shiloah | p.59 |
| Jewish Music Published in Palestine: An Introduction | James J. Fuld | p.70 |
| Mordecai Sandberg (1897-1973) | Joel Mandelbaum | p.81 |
| In Memoriam: Shalom Altman (1911-1986) | Marsha Bryan Edelman | p.92 |
| Reviews: Darryl Lyman. |
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STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME–NEW OPERA
STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME–
OPERA BASED ON LIVES
OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS JAAP & INA POLAK
Semi-Staged Concert Performances in New York on April 28 & 30
of a new opera in two acts by Gerald Cohen and Deborah Brevoort
These semi-staged concert performances will take place on:
Sunday, April 28, 2 p.m. at Shaarei Tikvah Congregation, Scarsdale, NY; and
Tuesday, April 30, 7 p.m. at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY
Details can be found on Gerald Cohen ‘s website
www.geraldcohenmusic.com
Shaarei Tikvah Congregation is located at 46 Fox Meadow Road, Scarsdale NY. Individual tickets are $30 at the door; $25 in advance; $15 for seniors and $10 for students. Please contact (914) 472-2013 or office@shaareitikvah.org.
Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) is located at 3080 Broadway (at 122nd st.), New York, NY.…
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Berger, Arthur
American. Born in 1912 in New York. Died in Boston on October 7, 2003. Avant-garde composer. Studied at NYU and Harvard University. Focused in chamber and solo piano music. New York Music Critics Circle Citation, 1962. Won awards from Guggenheim, Fromm, Coolidge, Naumburg and Fulbright Foundations. Fellow of the American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Taught at Mills College, 1939–1943. Taught at Brandeis University 1953-1980 as Irving Fine Professor of Music. Helped establish the graduate program at Brandeis. 2003 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award.
Stettner, Ellen
American. Cantor. Opera singer. She served as the first cantor of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue of New York City and held the post for 21 years. Cantor Stettner is on the faculty of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, School of Sacred Music, and currently is a member of the Joint Cantorial Placement Commission and Vice President of the American Conference of Cantors. Cantor Stettner has performed extensively throughout the country with the Santa Fe Opera, the New York Opera Ensemble, the New England Chamber Opera and the Princeton Opera. She won the prestigious National Arts and Letters Vocal Competition in Carnegie Hall and, as a result, was the featured soloist in a performance of Mozart arias with the American Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she was in documentaries produced by the BBC and the French National Television.…
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Ostfeld, Cantor Barbara
American. Cantor. Born December 24, 1952, St. Louis, MO. She is the first woman invested as a cantor. Graduated 1975, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion-School of Sacred Music (HUC-SSM). Received the honorary DSM from HUC in 2000. From 1976 through 1988, served Temple Beth-El of Great Neck. From 1990 through 2002, served Temple Beth Am of Buffalo, NY. From 1996 to 1998, chaired the Joint Cantorial Placement Commission. In 2002, appointed as Placement Director of the American Conference of Cantors (ACC). She also served the American Conference of Cantors (ACC) as Secretary, Vice-President, as a Northeast regional representative, and several terms on the board of directors. Cantor Ostfeld edited the CAA newsletter, Shalshelet: The Chain, for two years.
Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture
JEWISH MUSIC FORUM EVENT
Jewish Music Forum 2015–16 Season Opener In conjunction with The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation and the Leo Back Institute
“Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture”
Book Talk and Conversation with Dr. Tina Frühauf (RILM, CUNY), Dr. William H. Weitzer (Executive Director, Leo Baeck Institute), and Dr. Mark Slobin (Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Wesleyan University)
Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture (Oxford University Press, 2014), editors Tina Frühauf and Lily Hirsch
Monday, November 30, 6:00 p.m.
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, The Skylight Conference Room: 9100
The first volume of its kind, Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture draws together three significant areas of inquiry: Jewish music, German culture, and the legacy of the Holocaust.…
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How an Afro-Jewish band rocked Nazi-occupied Denmark
How an Afro-Jewish band rocked Nazi-occupied Denmark
Anne Dvinge, University of Copenhagen
It seems an impossibility: in Nazi-occupied Denmark in the 1940s, one of the hottest jazz orchestras around was the interracial Harlem Kiddies, with two white and three black band members – and a Jewish singer in front. The story of how the band came to be so popular is one that uncovers the great role that jazz and race played in the occupied territories during the Second World War.
Several factors contributed to the social and political atmosphere that enabled their success. In the occupied territories in the Second World War, Denmark was known as the Sahnefront – the cream front – due to the co-operative government and the relative leniency of the occupying forces.…
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New York Andalus Ensemble –Et Dodim Kalah Oct 30
The New York Andalus Ensemble will perform Oct. 30 2014 at 7;30
at the CUNY Graduate Center
Elebash Recital Hall
365 Fifth Ave (corner of 34th) NY, NY
$13 Adults, $10 students
The_New York Andalus Ensemble presents Et Dodim Kalah (It’s the Time of
Courting, O Bride!), an evening of music and song from al-Andalus and North Africa.
Reflecting the cultural pluralism that characterizes this music, the 20 members of
the ensemble perform repertoire in Arabic, Hebrew, and Judeo-Spanish Ladino, emphasizing the
region’s shared tradition while cherishing the individual cultures that comprise it.
Music and song from al-Andalus and North Africa in NYC
Et Dodim Kalah_ (It’s the Time of Courting, O Bride!)
Come hear The New York Andalus Ensemble
Thursday, October 30, 2014
7:30 PM
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave. (at 34th St.)
The New York Andalus Ensemble will present _Et Dodim Kalah_ (It’s the Time of Courting, O Bride!), an
evening of music and song from al-Andalus and North Africa.
TIckets: $13 adults/$10 students, available at the door or at
www.newyorkandalusensemble.comor
(http://www.asefamusic.com/NYAndalusWEB/performances.html).
In al-Andalus (Southern Spain), peoples of the three Abrahamic faiths—Islam,
Judaism, and Christianity—shared their arts and sciences for more than five hundred
years, creating a multicultural canon of music and poetry. Since 1492, Jews and
Muslims in North Africa have carried the musical traditions forward from al-Andalus.
Today, the musical expansion from over five centuries ago to the present day
flourishes in New York City with the New York Andalus Ensemble.…
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Musica Judaica Issues: 1985-86, Volume VIII, No. 1
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Volume VIII. Number 1. 5747/1985-86
Editor:
Israel J. Katz
Associate/Review Editor, Neil W. Levin
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| A Family of Jewish Musicians in Mid-Eighteenth Century Paris | Alexander L. Ringer | p.1 |
| Reminiscences of Guido Adler (1855-1941) | Carl A. Rosenthal | p.13 |
| Salomon Sulzer's Schir Zion, Volume One: A Survey of Its Contributors and Its Contents | Abraham Lubin | p.23 |
| A Perception of the Prayer Modes as Reflected in Musical and Rabbinical Sources | Macy Nulman | p.45 |
| They Made Me a Jewish Composer | David Finko | p.59 |
| Ami Maayani and the Yiddish Art Song (Part I) | Laya Harbater Silber | p.75 |
| Book Reviews: Eric Werner, The Sacred Bridge: The Interdependence of Liturgy and Music in Synagogue and Church during the First Millenium, Volume Two (New York, 1984) | Theodore C. |
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Yiddish singing star Anthony Russell in Miami
Anthony Russell will perform in Miami on Sunday, June 9th at 4:00 p.m. in the first
solo concert presented by the Winter Jewish Music Concert.
Tickets for the concert are now on sale online
http://www.jewishconcert.org/tickets/ or by calling 1-800-838-3006. General
admission for the concert is $18, and sponsor tickets are $36.
Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell was profiled this week in the Times of Israel. “If
you think you know what a Yiddish singing star looks like, think again. The new, hot
name in the world of Yiddish musical performance is Anthony Russell, and he’s a
33-year-old, 6’1’’ African-American hipster from Oakland, California,” the author
wrote. “Baptist-born and Jew by choice, opera singer Anthony Mordechai Tzvi
Russell’s ‘niggunim’ have soul.” Read the rest of the article
http://www.timesofisrael.com/just-your-typical-61-african-american-yiddish-singer/
The concert will include a variety of music—Yiddish music, music in Hebrew, and
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HAZAMIR TEEN CHOIR IN GALA CONCERTS AT LINCOLN CENTER
HAZAMIR TEEN CHOIR CELEBRATES 20 YEARS IN GALA CONCERTS AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ON MARCH 17
300 SINGERS FROM ACROSS U.S. AND ISRAEL TO PERFORM. NEW KINOR DAVID AWARD TO BE INAUGURATED
300 singers from 22 cities across the U.S. and Israel take part in the 20th anniversary concerts of HaZamir: The International Jewish High School Choir at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Sunday March 17. The back-to-back concerts, at 3pm and at 6:30pm, are the annual culmination of a year-long teen program sponsored by the Zamir Choral Foundation in New York. Zamir is the only organization of its kind to use Jewish choral singing as a vehicle to foster Jewish identity, community and continuity.
The concerts span a wide range of classical and contemporary musical selections, with mostly Hebrew texts.…
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Sarah Aroeste
American born. Sings in Ladino, music orginally from Spain, and her family later settling in Salonika, Greece. The Aroeste sound combines and updates aspects from her ‘unique family background with influx of Latin-based music in America over the past few years.’ Sarah wrote: “I have a Ladino fusion band–you can check it out at www.saraharoeste.com I began this project because there are so few young people working in Ladino. I grew up on the traditional music (my family is from Salonika, Greece), but I am also influenced by other musicial styles. Not only am I a proud Sephardic Jew, but I am also a young, modern American woman! I wanted to find a musical style that could really incorporate my various identities. So I started a band a few years ago taking traditional sephardic songs from across the Mediterranean and combining them with American rock, blues and jazz.…
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“The Vienna Rite” at the Roulette in NYC
http://roulette.org/events/judith-berkson/ . The Vienna Rite is a new chamber opera by Judith Berkson that will be premiering for two nights in November at the Roulette. There are only two performances, November 2nd and 3rd 2012. “The Vienna Rite” is the story of a new service composed in 1828 by Viennese Cantor Salomon Sulzer in collaboration with Franz Schubert and other Viennese composers which sought to merge European music with synagogue chant.
It is being performed by the new music ensemble Yarn/Wire along with guests Brian Chase and Chi-Chi Glass and features the amazing baritone Ian Greenlaw as Salomon Sulzer along with singers Lana Cencic, Allyssa Lamb, Bo Chang, Judith Berkson, Aram Tchobanian and Gavriel Savit. It is set in the historic Stadttempel with costumes and set design by Audrey Robinson.…
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Young Artists Concert Series at YIVO
Thursday, May 12th. 7pm
As part of the Young Artists Concert Series, Hebrew College School of Jewish Music students
Richard Lawrence and Kate Judd will be performing in
a concert highlighting the works of Lazar Weiner and Joseph Achron at the YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research, New York City,
at the Center for Jewish History | 15 West 16th Street – NYC
For more information on the concert and to purchase tickets, please go to:
http://www.yivo.org/events/index.php?tid=181&aid=822
Celebrate Freedoom with Music For Passover from URJ
Soundswrite newsletter: Volume 10, Number 7 • April, 2011 • Adar II/Nisan, 5771
Purim is over, which means Passover is just around the corner! Arguably the most widely observed of all Jewish holidays, Passover (Pesach) is a celebration of freedom–a remembrance of our people’s Exodus from slavery in Egypt over 3,000 years ago. Today, there’s an amazing array of terrific music for Pesach, both traditional and contemporary, to enliven your holiday and brighten your home, your car, your classroom, or anywhere else you listen to music. Check out these amazing recordings by clicking on any cover image below. Chag Pesach Sameach!
Jim Loeffler speaking at Jewish Music Forum
On Thursday, March 24th at 7 PM, in conjunction with YIVO, the Jewish Music Forum will present The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire, the title of a fascinating new book by Dr. James Loeffler, the Founder and first Executive Director of ASJM’s Jewish Music Forum.
Quoting from the book jacket below gives you additional details about this wonderful evening which will have live musical examples. Providing these music examples for Dr. Loffler’s talk, we are very grateful to have performers from YIVO’s Krum Young Artist Series. A reception and book singing will follow:
“No image of pre-revolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But in the half century before 1917, Jewish musicians were actually descending from their shtetl roofs and streaming in dazzling numbers to Russia’s new classical conservatories.…
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Musica Judaica Online Reviews (MJOR)
The American Society of Jewish Music announces official release of MUSICA JUDAICA ONLINE REVIEWS, which has been operating under the Editorship of Dr. Judah M. Cohen of Indiana University
since the beginning of the year.
Designed as an offshoot of Musica Judaica, the Society’s journal which is
published once a year, Musica Judaica Online Reviews (MJOR) not only allows
us to publish reviews much closer to the publication date of the book or
recording in question, but also guarantees a much wider circulation and
distribution of the reviews, to all who are interested what is being written
about in Jewish music. Moreover, at the same time, our goal is not only to
share the reviews but to engage in discussion, with readers able to submit
their comments (of course, moderated by our editor).…
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And Sarah Danced CD Release
Emil Skobeloff and Or Chadash have released an album of all new tunes to liturgical music called “And Sarah Danced.: The album is thoroughly American in concept, and takes the listener on a walk through fifty-plus years of American popular styles, attached to Jewish liturgical texts. Skobeloff succeeds in creating some good tunes and some are quite catchy. So for those fond of American style music for Jewish worship, check out this album. Several of the successful songs are the “Magen Avot”, “Ma Tovu” and “Ashrei”. Skobeloff has a myspace page at: www.myspace.com/emilskobeloff
New Herman Berlinski CD from Milken Archive
Herman Berlinski: From the World of My Father [8.559446]
The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music has released a CD of four works for the synagogue and the concert hall by German-born, American composer and organist Herman Berlinski. These works reflect his rich, post-Romantic musical language, eclectic musical style, and depth of Jewish inspiration. This new disc complements the Milken Archive’s 2004 release of the composer’s Avodat Shabbat, a large-scale setting of the Sabbath evening liturgy according to the American Reform prayerbook. It brings to 45 the number of recordings released since the Milken Archive CD series was launched in September 2003.
The Jewish Music Forum and The Center for Jewish History Lecture
The Jewish Music Forum and The Center for Jewish History
are pleased to present
Professor Mark Kligman
(Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion)
Friday, April 8, 10 AM
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
“Beyond Yiddishland: New Studies from the Jewish Musical Mediterranean”
The music of Sephardi Jewish communities is a diverse and complex
cultural phenomenon. Spanning the Mediterranean from the Western
Sephardic communities of Spain and Portugal to North Africa, the Ottoman
Empire and the Levant, the Sephardi world encompasses a vast geographic,
cultural and linguistic space. This presentation will offer a broad
overview of the development of academic scholarship on Western and
Middle Eastern Sephardi musical traditions. Using extensive audio
examples, Professor Kligman will demonstrate the stylistic and cultural
diversity across Mediterranean Jewish communities, past and present.…
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OFER BEN-AMOTS and DAVID DIAMOND CDs
NEW CD RELEASES from the MILKEN ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN JEWISH MUSIC
and NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS: DAVID DIAMOND and OFER BEN-AMOTS
For details about Diamond CD, go to
http://www.milkenarchive.org/cds/cds.taf?cdid=17
To read an article about David Diamond’s AHAVA-Brotherhood, go to http://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/articles.taf?function=detail&ID=48
To read an interview with narrator Theodore Bikel, go to http://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/articles.taf?function=detail&ID=46
For details about Amots CD, go to http://www.milkenarchive.org/cds/cds.taf?cdid=18
Bloch, Shoenberg, Bernstein: Assimilating Jewish Music
By David M. Schiller
For Jews, the terms “assimilating” or “assimilation” are charged. Many unpleasant associations arise with thoughts of Jews “assimilating into” or disappearing altogether into, general society; becoming like others. As Jonathan Sarna says in the introduction to his new book, American Judaism,: “Through the years, ‘assimilation’ has become so freighted with different meanings, modifiers, and cultural associations that for analytical purposes it has become virtually meaningless. In some Jewish circles, indeed, the term is regularly employed as an epithet.” But “assimilating” is a term that the dictionary states, also means, “absorbing”, or “to take in and appropriate.” It can mean a “healthy appropriation of new forms and ideas.” In this book, David Schiller bravely makes distinctions with something that “happened in a more or less remote past or that is happening now.” Using the term in the title is not only eyecatching, but essential to his thesis about the nature of Jewish art music.…
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Jaffe, Stephen
American. B. 1955 in Washington, D.C. Studied composition at the University of Pennsylvania with George Crumb, George Rochberg, and Richard Wernick. Also at the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland. Since 1999, he is Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Professor of Music at Duke University, where he taught since 1981. Jaffe co-directs Duke’s contemporary music concert series Encounters: with the Music of Our Time, and works with a inventive and gifted group of young composers. Jaffe won a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Tanglewood, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Brandeis University awarded him its Creative Arts Citation (1989), Kennedy Center Friedheim Award for First Quartet(1991.…
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Ellen Schiller, Benjie
Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller is both the first woman to be a full time faculty member at the School of Sacred Music at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York and a composer of sacred music. Born in New York on April 14, 1958 to Miriam and Nathan Schiller, Cantor Schiller studied voice and composition, and received a B. M. in Theory and Composition at Boston University in 1980. She continued graduate studies there in voice and choral conducting, and shortly thereafter, married Rabbi Lester Bronstein in June, 1981.
She attended the School of Sacred Music of Hebrew Union College in New York and was invested in 1987. Her Master Thesis composition was “Life Song Cycle.” Cantor Schiller also became a full time faculty member and taught courses in cantillation, basic nusach (prayer modes) and the in-depth study of repertoire for Shabbat.…
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Rubin, Joel
“Joel Rubin is Assistant Professor of Music in the Performance Program at the University of Virginia. He attended the California Institute of the Arts and received a BFA in clarinet performance from the State University of New York at Purchase (1978). His principal teachers were Richard Stoltzman and Kalmen Opperman. Rubin holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from City University of London (2001). Rubin is an internationally acclaimed performer of Jewish instrumental klezmer music and hasidic music. In addition to performances with traditional musicians such as the Epstein Brothers (USA) and Moshe Berlin (Israel), he was the founder and clarinetist of some of the most internationally respected klezmer ensembles, including the Joel Rubin Jewish Music Ensemble and Brave Old World. Rubin’s fifth solo album, “Midnight Prayer”, came out in 2007 on Traditional Crossroads.…
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Musica Judaica Issues: 1986-87, Volume IX
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Volume IX. Number 1. 5748/1986-87
Editor:
Israel J. Katz
Associate/Review Editor, Neil W. Levin
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chant and Cantillation | Johanna Spector | p.1 |
| Folk Music in the Urban German-Jewish Community 1890-1919 | Philip V. Bohlman | p.22 |
| Fumio Koizumi of Japan: An Asian's Use of the Concepts of Melody Found in the Works of Abraham Z. Idelsohn, Robert Lachmann, and Curt Sachs | James Siddons | p.35 |
| Ami Maayani and the Yiddish Art Song (Part II) | Laya Harbater Silber | p.47 |
| Hebrew as an Elucidator of Concepts in Western Music | Vered Cohen | p.65 |
| In Memoriam: Reuven Kosakoff (1898-1987) | Sharon Kosakoff | p.68 |
| Book Reviews: Letter to the Editor | Bernard Beer | p.76 |
| Book Reviews: A Reply to Cantor Beer | Neil Levin | p.77 |
| p.77 Book Reviews: Adaqi, Yehiel, and Uri Sharvit. |
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Musica Judaica Issues: 1984-85, Volume VII, No. 1
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Volume VII. Number 1. 5745/1984-85
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Yemenite and Babylonian Elements in the Musical Heritage of the Jews of Cochin, India | Johanna Spector | p.1 |
| Songs of the Jews on the Island of Djerba. A Comparison between Two Surveys: Hara Sghira (1929) and Hara Kebira (1976) | Ruth Francis Davis | p.23 |
| The Resurgence of Jewish Musical Life in an Urban German Community: Mannheim on the Eve of World War II | Philip V. Bohlman | p.34 |
| Felix Mendelssohn's Commissioned Composition for the Hamburg Temple: The 100th Psalm (1844) | Eric Werner | p.54 |
| Another Anthology of Sephardic Folksongs (A Review Essay) | Samuel G. Armistead, Israel J. |
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Musica Judaica Issues: 1975-76, Volume I, No. 1
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Volume I. Number 1. 5736/1975-76
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
Albert Weisser
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Abraham Zvi Idelsohn (1882-1938): A Bibliography of His Collected Writings/ | Israel J. Katz | p.1 |
| Medieval Elements in the Liturgical Music of the Jews of Southern France and Northern Spain/ | Judith K. Eisenstein | p.33 |
| Giacomo Meyerbeer: The Jew and His Relationship with Richard Wagner/ | Joan L. Thomson | p.55 |
| Review Essay: The Music of Europe and the Americas (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) in the Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem, 1971)/ | Albert Weisser | p.87 |
| Facsimile of Two Fragments of Joseph Achron's Kiddush Hasem | Almanach of the Yiddish Art Theatre | p.104 |
| Contributors of Articles | p.105 | |
| Alfred Sendrey (1884-1976): In Memoriam/ | Israel J. |
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Musica Judaica Issues: 1977-78, Volume II, No. 1
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Volume II. Number 1. 5738/1977-78
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
Albert Weisser
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Lazare Saminsky's Years in Russia and Palestine: Excerpts from an Unpublished Autobiography/ | Edited and annotated by Albert Weisser | p.1 |
| The Music of the Synagogue as a Source of the Yiddish Folksong | Max Wohlberg | p.21 |
| Cross-Cultural Dynamics in Musical Traditions: The Music of the Jews of Cochin/ | Israel J. Ross | p.51 |
| Soviet-Yiddish Folklore Scholarship/ | Eleanor Gordon Mlotek | p.73 |
| Book Reviews: The Articles "Music, Masoretic Accents, and Hazzan" in the Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem, 1971) | Eric Werner | p.91 |
| Book Reviews: Chanah Milner and Paul Storm, eds. Sefardische Liederen en Balladen (romanzas) (The Hague, 1974) | Samuel G. |
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Musica Judaica Issues: 1989-90, Volume XI
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Volume XI. Number 1. 5750/1989-90
Editor:
Neil W. Levin
Assistant Editor, Alexander V. Knapp
…
CONTENTS
Written Evidence and Oral tradition: The Singing of Hayom Harat Olam in Sephardi Synagogues Edwin Seroussi p.1
Neglected Sources for the Historical Study of Synagogue Music: The Prefaces to Louis Lewandowski's Kol Rinnah u'T'Fillah and Todah W'simrah--Annotated Translations Geoffrey Goldberg p.27
A Guide to the Unpublished Works of Gershon Ephros (1890-1978): An Annotated Bibliography Marsha Bryan Edelman p.58
Lord Byron's Hebrew Melodies: A Curious Episode Reconsidered-- A Review Essay Carole Rosen p.86
Reviews: Philip V. Bohlman, The Land Where Two Streams Flow: Music in the German-Jewish Community of Israel (Urbana and Chicago, 1989) Samuel Adler p.93
Akiva Zimmermann, B'ron Yahad: Essays, Research and Notes on Hazzanut and Jewish Music (Tel Aviv, 1988) Joseph A.
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Musica Judaica Issues: 1980-81, Volume III, No. 1
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Volume III. Number 1. 5741/1980-81
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
Albert Weisser
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916) and the Lost Generation | Alexander L. Ringer | p.1 |
| Toward Defining the Jewish Prayer Modes: With Particular Emphasis on the Adonay Malakh Mode | Joseph A. Levine | p.13 |
| Seged: A Falasha Pilgrimage Festival | Kay Kaufman Shelemay | p.43 |
| The Jew in German Musical Thought before the Nineteenth Century | Jacob Hohenemser | p.63 |
| Letters to the Editors: An Encyclopedist's Ailments--Reviewing Reviews of the Encyclopaedia Judaica on Jewish Music | Hanoch Avenary | p.74 |
| Letters to the Editors: A reply to Dr. Avenary | Eric Werner | p.76 |
| Book and Music Reviews: Robert Strassburg, Ernest Bloch: Voice in the Wilderness (Los Angeles, 1977) | Byron Cantrell | p.77 |
| Book and Music Reviews: Miriam Gideon: Shirat Miriam L'Shabbat: A Sabbath Evening Service (London, 1978) | Hugo Weisgall | p.80 |
| Book and Music Reviews: Hugo Weisgall, The Golden Peacock: Seven Popular Songs from the Yiddish (Bryn Mawr, 1980) | Bruce Saylor | p.82 |
| Contributors of Articles | p.86 | |
| In Memoriam: Marvin Duchow (1914-1979) | Israel J. |
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Musica Judaica Issues: 1993-94, Volume XIII
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Volume XIII. Number 1. 5755/1993-94
Editor:
Neil W. Levin
Assistant Editor, Alexander V. Knapp
Founder, Albert Weisser (1918-1982)
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| From the Editor | Neil W. Levin | p.iv |
| An Unanticipated Consequence of Political/Racial Persecution: the Contribution of Jewish Musicians to the Cultural Transfer of European Art Music to Japan | Irene Suchy | p.1 |
| Mordecai Sandberg (1897-1973): A Catalogue of the Music | Austin Clarkson, with Karen Pegley and Jay Rahn | p.18 |
| An International Conference on Jewish Music at City University, London | Malcolm Miller | p.82 |
| Award of the Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, to Israel Adler | p.90 | |
| Hanoch Avenary: In Memoriam | Edwin Seroussi | p.93 |
| Reviews: Walter Salmen, "...denn die Fiedel macht das Fest." Jüdische Musikanten und TÄnzer vom 13. |
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Musica Judaica Issues: 1999, Volume XIV
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Volume XIV. 1999
Editor:
Irene Heskes
Production Editor, Doris B. Gold
A Publication Devoted to All Aspects of Jewish Music
This issue of Musica Judaica is dedicated to the late Cantor Aaron J. Caplow
“Sweet Singer of Prayers”
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Greetings from the President of the Society | Hadassah B. Markson | p.6 |
| Editor's Commentary | Irene Heskes | p.7 |
| Medieval Elements in the Liturgical Music of the Jews of Southern France and Northern Spain. [Vol. I, 1975/76]. | Judith Kaplan Eisenstein | p.9 |
| Postscript: Remembering Some of Our Pioneers | Marsha Bryan Edelman | p.31 |
| The Music of the Synagogue as a Source of the Yiddish Folksong. [Vol. II. 1977/78] | Max Wohlberg. |
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Musica Judaica Issues: 2000-2001, Volume XV
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Volume XV. 2000-2001
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
Arbie Orenstein
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Greetings from Hadassah B. Markson | p. iv | |
| From the Editors | p. iv | |
| Nationalism and the Creation of Jewish Music: The Politicization of Music and Language in the German-Jewish Press Prior to the Second World War | Esther Schmidt | p.1 |
| Heinrich Schalit and Weimar Jewish Music | Eliott Kahn | p.33 |
| The Song of Israel: An Eastern Viewpoint | Amnon Shiloah | p.69 |
| Yemenite Women's Songs at the Habani Jews' Wedding Celebrations | Yael Shai | p. 83 |
| The Third London International Conference on Jewish Music (2000) | Malcolm Miller | p.97 |
| A Musical Banquet: the Tenth London International Jewish Music Festival (11 June-13 July 2000) | Malcolm Miller | p.111 |
| IN MEMORIAM: Irene Heskes (1923-1999) | Jon Newsom | p.119 |
| IN MEMORIAM: Byron Cantrell (1919-1997) | Israel J. |
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Musica Judaica Issues: 2001-2002, Volume XVI
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Volume XVI. 2001-2002
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
Arbie Orenstein
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| President's Greetings | p. iv | |
| From the Editors | p. vi | |
| The Metaphor of Light in Joseph Haydn's Oratorio, The Creation (1798): A New Jewish Textual Source | Adena Portowitz | p.1 |
| The Music of David Nowakowsky (1848-1921): A New Voice from Old Odessa | Emanuel Rubin | p.21 |
| Toward a Clearer Definition of the Mogen Avot Mode | Boaz Tarsi | p.53 |
| Synagogal Chanting of the Bible: A Linking of Linguistics and Etnomusicology | Rachel Mashiah and Uri Sharvit | p.81 |
| In Memoriam: Alexander L. Ringer (1921-2002) | Amnon Shiloah | p.99 |
| Two Significant Musicological Events: Commemorating Salamone Rossi (ca.1570 - ca. 1628) and Eric Werner (1901-1988) | Mark Kligman | p.109 |
| The Turn of the Millennium in Jewish Music: A Bibliography of Selected Items (1999-2002) | Compiled by Judith Shira Pinnolis | p.118 |
| Conributors of articles to this issue | p.151 | |
| ASJM Membership | p.153 | |
| Updated 25 March, 2005 |
All content © 2001-2002 American Society for Jewish Music.…
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Musica Judaica Issues: 1983-84, Volume VI, No. 1
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Volume VI. Number 1. 5744/1983-84
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Lazare Saminsky's Early Years in New York City (1920-1928): Excerpts from an Unpublished Autobiography | Edited by Israel J. Katz | p.1 |
| Sephardic Folkliterature and Eastern Mediterranean Oral Tradition | Samuel G. Armistead and Joseph H. Silverman | p.38 |
| A Trascription of the Judeo-Spanish Ballad La vuelta del marido | Israel J. Katz | p.55 |
| The "Prologue" to Jewish Music in Twentieth-Century America: Four Representative Figures: [Bloch, Saminsky, Copland, and Weisgall] | Albert Weisser | p.60 |
| Max Helfman: The Man and His Musical Legacy | Philip Moddel and Richard J. Neumann (Including a listing of Helfman's compositions compiled by Judith Tischler) | p.67 |
| Last Chants for the Cantorate? |
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Musica Judaica Issues: 1981-82, Volume IV, No. 1
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Volume IV. Number 1. 5742/1981-82
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
Albert Weisser
Laura Leon-Cohen, Associate Editor
Dedicated to the Memory of Albert Weisser (1918-1982)
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| The Music Division of the Jewish-Ethnographic Expedition in the Name of BaronHorace Guinzbourg (1911-1914) | Albert Weisser | p.1 |
| Curt Sachs and the Library Museum of the Performing Arts | Carleton Sprague Smith | p.9 |
| The Role of Ethnomusicology in the Study of Jewish Music | Johanna Spector | p.20 |
| The Enigma of the Antonio Bustelo Judeo-Spanish Ballad tunes in Manuel L. Ortega's Los hebreos en marreucos | Israel J. Katz | p.33 |
| On the Melody of David Edelstadts's "Vacht Oyfl" | Robert A. Rothstein | p.69 |
| Book and Music Reviews: Neil Levin, ed. |
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Musica Judaica Issues: 2005-2006, Volume XVIII
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Volume XVIII. 2005-2006
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
Arbie Orenstein
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| President's Greetings | p. iv | |
| From the Editors | p. vii | |
| p. vii The History of the Jewish Music Publishing House Jibne and Yuwal Translated from the German by Eliott Kahn and Verena Bopp | Jascha Nemtsov | p. 1 |
| The Augmented Second, Chagall's Silhouettes, and the Six-Pointed Star | Marina Ritzarev | p. 43 |
| The Female Sozanda Art from the Viewpoint of Professionalism in the Musical Tradition: A Preliminary Survey | Elena Reikher (Temin) | p. 71 |
| Arab Music and Aesthetics as Basis for the Liturgical Structure of the Sabbath Morning Service of the Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, New York | Mark Kligman | p. |
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Musica Judaica Issues: 1982-83, Volume V, No. 1
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Volume V. Number 1. 5743/1982-83
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
Laura Leon-Cohen, Associate Editor
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Hugo Weisgall's The Golden Peacock: A Stylistic and Interpretive Analysis of Two Songs | Laura Leon-Cohen | p.1 |
| Frederick Emil Kitziger of New Orleans: A Nineteenth-Century Composer of Synagogue Music | John H. Baron | p.21 |
| The Biblical Trope System in Ashkenazic Phrophetic Reading | Joseph A. Levine | p.35 |
| Modulation as an Integral Part of the Modal System in Jewish Music | Judit Laki Frigyesi | p.53 |
| The Development of the Hallel Chant as Reflected in Rabbinic Literature | Macy Nulman | p.72 |
| Antisemitism and Music in Nineteenth-Century France | James H. Johnson | p.79 |
| Record Reviews: The Art of Moshe Rudinow. |
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London Klezmer Quartet in Summertime
London Klezmer Quartet concerts and courses coming up
12 June, Camden, London. Music starts at 8.30pm
London Klezmer Quartet in concert at the Green Note, also featuring
gorgeous Romanian melodies from the Brasov String Band – Francesca
Ter-Berg (cello) and Flora Curzon (violin).
Read more (
http://www.greennote.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2499
)
Book tickets ( http://www.wegottickets.com/event/270180 )
Hop to Klezmer Workshops in London
Sunday 9 November 2008
Klezmer Workshop
12 – 1pm
London Klezmer Session
1 – 4pm
The Cross Kings, 126 York Way, N1
London klezmer session every second Sunday of the month. Bring an instrument
and a tune, or just come to shmooze & booze. The pub does great food and has
comfy sofas, too…
Info and tunes http://www.ilanacravitz.com/jams.html .
Next date: Sunday 21 December (NB DATE IS THIRD SUNDAY OF THE MONTH!)
Workshop £5; Jam £1.
Sunday 23 November 2008
5.30 – 9pm
Klezmer Barn Dance
Amersham Common Village Hall, 24 White Lion Road, Amersham HP7 9JD
Come along and dance your socks off at this fun event for grown-ups, kids
and all those in-between. With dance leading from Ilana Cravitz and live
music from the Hopkele House Band: Susi Evans (clarinet), Matt Bacon
(guitar) and Paul Moylan (bass).…
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Winter Happenings in London
Klezmer Workshop
Sunday 21 December 2008
12 – 1pm
London Klezmer Session
1 – 4pm
The Cross Kings, 126 York Way, N1
A festive version of the London klezmer session, which is once a month on a
Sunday afternoon. Bring an instrument and a tune, or just come to shmooze &
booze. The pub does great food and has comfy sofas, too… Info and tunes
are at http://www.ilanacravitz.com/jams.html.
Next date: Sunday 18 January.
Workshop £5; Jam £1.
NEW London Klezmer Orchestra
Monday 19 January 2008
7.30 – 9.30pm
Inn on the Green, 3 Thorpe Close,
Ladbroke Grove, London W10 5XL
Join the Klezmer Orchestra that meets every couple of weeks in Ladbroke
Grove. From trad klezmer to eclectic doyne-ish – you get to choose the
repertoire and help arrange the music.…
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ECA Budapest Cantors Convention
Booking is now officially open for the ECA Budapest Cantors Convention
July 2014: Thursday 10 – Monday 14th.
Guest teachers: Asher Hainovitz and Yaakov Motzen
Subject the High Holydays
Convention includes Shabbat Services in the Hungarian tradition, a concert by world class cantors and an evening for young talent to perform. It also includes a Tour of Jewish Budapest and a personal tour of the Dohány Street Synagogue on Sunday afternoon.
Fees: full fee is £245 and for students it is £145. Some scholarships are available particularly for Eastern European delegates. There is a £15 discount on all bookings before 30 April.
This year the prices include (as well as breakfast and light lunches) Shabbat lunch and dinners on Thursday, Friday and Sunday for delegates. Accommodation is not included, but for early bookers there is a special discount price at the Convention Hotel: The Golden Park, which is near the synagogue.…
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Transcontinental Music has new Music Editor
Transcontinental Music has recently hired two new staff:
Mike Boxer will be Administrative Director of Transcontinental Music. He has a rich background in business, education, and music arranging and producing, and has a special love of Jewish a cappella music. Most recently Mike has been working as a middle school chorus teacher, while also running his own music production company. Mike has a B.A. in Music, a B.S. in Management and Marketing, and an M.A. in Adolescent Education.
Jayson Rodovsky Engquist will be the new Music Editor. Jayson has a long history serving as music director, choir conductor, and organist at various synagogues, including a position at Central Synagogue in New York City, and is active in the GTM (Guild of Temple Musicians) and the American Guild of Organists.…
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Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry, a presentation about the unsung hero of the recording industry will be given at the Library of Congress.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
THE HEBRAIC SECTION OF THE
AFRICAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN DIVISION;
AND THE MOTION PICTURE, BROADCASTING AND RECORDED SOUND DIVISION
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
in honor of
JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH
Sam Brylawski,
Former head of the Recorded Sound Section and Editor of the UCSB Victor Records Discography
and Karen Lund, Digital Project Coordinator, the Music Division and Developer of the LC Emile Berliner Website, will speak on the subject of an unsung hero of recorded sound:
Free and Open to the Public
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
African & Middle Eastern Division Reading Room
Thomas Jefferson Building, LJ 220
101 Independence Avenue, S.E.…
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Duo Brikcius & Year of Czech Music
Duo Brikcius & Year of Czech Music
[2 Cellists & 2 Siblings]
You are invited to the November concert “Festival Brikcius” – DUO BRIKCIUS & YEAR OF
CZECH MUSIC (2 Cellists – 2 Siblings), that will take place on Thursday 20th
November 2014
at 7.30pm
Location: in the representative concert hall from the 13th century of
the Stone Bell House in Prague
GHMP, 3rd floor, Old Town Square 605/13,
Prague 1,
Czech Republic.
The two cellists, brother and sister Anna Brikciusová and František Brikcius (Duo
Brikcius), will introduce a new programme for two cellos. It includes: Suite for Two
Cellos by composer and cellist from Prague David Popper (1843 – 1913); Chassidic
Dances by “Terezín” Jewish composer Zikmund Schul (1916 – 1944); Composition for Two
Cellos by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů (1890 – 1959; Duo by “Terezín” Jewish
composer Gideon Klein (1919 – 1945), written shortly before World War II.…
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First European Cantors Convention, London
First London Cantors Convention
Sunday 25 – Wednesday 28 June 2006
Central Synagogue, 36 Hallam Street, W1W 6NW
An unrivalled opportunity for practising and aspiring cantors from the UK,
Europe and further afield to share expertise and experience, learn new
melodies and be inspired by some of the greatest cantors in the world who
will be our honoured guests. Please read more!
3rd International Jewish Music Competition in Amsterdam
October 11-14, 2012 in a new location!
The Third International Jewish Music Competition will be held at the
Compagnie theater in the heart of Amsterdam’s old city center and on
the edge of the city’s Jewish Cultural Quarter This competition is for individual musicians, ensembles and bands specializing in performing Jewish music and whose goal is an international career performing this repertoire.
Competition registration: open until July 1
Announcement of selected contestants: August 1
Ticket sales: starts in September
Festival opening concert: Wednesday October 10
Preliminary competition rounds: Thursday October 11 & Friday October
12
Finale: Saturday October 13
Winners’ Concert: Sunday October 14
More information & registration: www.ijmf.org
Location: Compagnietheater, Kloveniersburgwal 50, Amsterdam
IJMF Newsletter May 2012
Click to view this email in a browser –
http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/536935/db350ae0ba/1524001773/dd0f152f70/…
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