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Pete Sokolow
… in the Catskills span older and newer generations of Jewish musicians. Sokolow has played with many major figures in klezmer history, including Dave Tarras , the Epstein Brothers , and … Sokolow play the piano. Doyna: Hot Jazz meets Klezmer . Early Morning Blues by James P. Johnson , Pete Sokolow on …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … Among these paraliturgical practices, the repertoire of the early morning winter vigils called bakkashot received … poems (piyyutim) spanning almost a millennium of literary history. This textual mixture creates a sonic tapestry that …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … The historical period under investigation dates from the early 19 th century up to World War II, investigating these … to integrate them within the narratives of European music history. Such a comprehensive approach does not …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … inspections of the collections.” (Zachary M. Baker, History of the Jewish Collections at the Vernadsky Library … pp. 5-7). This report is not only illuminating for the early pictures of Dr. Irina Sergeyeva and Dr. Lyudmila …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory (2016). Like those books, New York …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… , Charles Hersch has written an informative and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first stop for those wishing to … some understanding of the complicated subject. Indeed, nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … Iraqi music. Most of these musicians moved to Israel in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, … who maintained a living connection to the tradition. History, however, proved her wrong. Starting in the 1990s, …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… of the boy Berlin in the New York streets and docks, his early encounter of a Christmas tree at the dwelling of the … early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … November 25, 2020. https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/music-history-monday-the-melody-lingers-on-irving-berlin/ Hamm, …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … life work. The survey also includes a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of … the Middle Ages for Jews and non-Jews alike,” while “in the early 1900s, Russian began gradually to overtake German” (p. …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim … communities of Italy (Venice, Modena, Livorno) since the early seventeenth century, and not always in relation to the … such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, …