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My Path to Jewish Music
… his generous assistance in preparing this translation from German into English. Stutschewsky’s original emphases have been preserved throughout; whereas the original German edition used letter-spacing for emphasis, this … musical works of art (symphonies, chamber music, art songs, opera) ultimately bear the marks of the composer's bond to …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… article appeared in parallel columns in English, French and German in Musica Hebraica (1-2 [1938]: 18-20), the very … was particularly brilliant; in a period before the French opera was born, art musicians from Italy produced at the … [6] The cantor from Alsace was obviously of Ashkenazi (German) origin. [7] Unlike our observation in note 2 above, …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… and in some details. A third, partial autobiography in German was located in 2017 in a batch of uncatalogued … of the Hebrew Union College (HUC) in New York City. This German text provides insights into Idelsohn’s ancestors … I was accepted in the Stern’sches Conservatorium in the opera-class of Seidemann. [8] The Director of the …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German Jewish historian, once wrote, is essentially a … as he experienced it across the Baltic region, urban Germany, Ottoman and early British Palestine, Lithuanian … anecdote about the sparking moment of inspiration of the opera Yiftah and the participation of Idelsohn’s choir in …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… to break away from the ghetto, such as the composer German composer of Jewish origin Giacomo Meyerbeer (whose … to open itself to the all-embracing effect of a future opera in Hebrew, i.e., the possibility and necessity of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, Roma, Russians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, Belarussians, Latgalians, … 1850s, decades after this practice was well established in Germany, but almost half a century before the first … Riga, who composed his first works there and conducted its opera, in 1934 led five concerts of all-Jewish programs with …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… emerged during the tenth century in present day southern Germany and northern France. However, it also acquired two … of many types of piyyutim , yet they are rare in German literature (Fleischer 2007, 470; Goldschmidt 1965, 9; … music, for example, one of the saddest arias in the opera repertoire was composed in the major mode: the lament …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Different scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a possible source of inspiration: … at the Conservatory of Saint Petersburg [and later on an opera singer in that city]. He composed melodies for two …
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
… the first positive Jewish characters began to appear on the German stage, presenting an alternative to the common … society were depicted in the composition of music for opera and other theatrical genres....Buch’s volume takes its … be able to distil from some of the less mocking of these operatic renderings of Jewish voices some evidence of the …
Opera in the Nazi Period
… Bibliographies Details the efforts to recreate the German opera repertoire to reflect Nazi political and cultural … … Holocaust … Cult … Third Reich … Nazi Nazis … Politics … German opera … Cultural ideology … Performance … Erik Levi … …
The Politics of Music in the Third Reich
… Research: Bibliographies Explores the affect of Nazism on German music in the 1930s and 1940s, includnig propaganda, … National Socialist concepts of race on classical music and opera, and a discussion of the relationship between composer … … Classical music … Third Reich … Nazi Nazis … Propoganda … German music … National Socialist … Composer … Michael Meyer …
Kurt Weill
… Documentary. German, English, French and Italian, English subtitles; 97 … himself with several satirical and surrealistic operas, he became famous with playwright Bertold Brecht … works were classified as degenerate. In 1933, Weill left Germany for France, however after a short stay there he …


