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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 … A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … styles, so as to circumvent the period of exile and express the return to the ancestral land. Karnes’s model …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo Levi recorded collection of Italian Jewish musical traditions includes four versions of Elohim …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which repertoires of traditional music have evolved in the century or more since commercial … Levy, Rebecca. I Remember Rhodes . New York: Sepher-Hermon Press, 1987. Bunis, David. Voices from Jewish Salonika: …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Biographical narratives are often based on the … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he … concerts whose programs revolved mainly around Mahler’s music to the repeated efforts to perform Mahler in Canada. …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Irving Berlin: New York Genius . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. If you want a bog-standard show-biz biography … early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. …
David Conway
… Studies in 2019-20. His publications include Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is a member of the editorial board of the … opera company HGO. (Photo credit: Smerus ) … British music historian … David Conway …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… and Mordecai, stressing the popular joy traditionally expressed on Purim for this miraculous turn of events. “Purim, … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … career as a synagogue singer and composer. Parallel to his musical career he developed a business in the field of … Jews of the Spanish-Portuguese Rite of Istanbul). Their impressive synagogue on Kuledibi Şair Ziya Paşa Street was …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2020. New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century … trilogy of sorts, alongside Hankus Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first stop for those wishing to … nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to categorize, analyze, or even begin to … and their cultural forms due to shared experiences of oppression) and “the exploitation narrative” (that Jews …