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Curt Sachs
… Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and composition as a youth in that city. He … as an art historian, but promptly became more devoted to music, eventually being appointed director of the Staatliche … his publications that can be accessed online. Sachs Curt. World History of the Dance , (Ed. 1963). Biographies: Brown …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … investigation dates from the early 19 th century up to World War II, investigating these practices within a broad … for the symbolic public display, through the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public …
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: … trilogy of sorts, alongside Hankus Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia … show some age by overlooking the recently active field of world music analysis spearheaded by Michael Tenzer and …
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 … also continue to pervade and delimit the historiography of world Jewry, to the exclusion of Jews of color such as …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online world-premiere recording of Stutschewsky’s forgotten work, … downloadable program notes on the genesis of this work, musical analysis of the composition, and an extensive …
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 first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … University, an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … the devastation of this city during the Balkan Wars and World War I. In the capital city, Cordova pursued his career as a synagogue singer and composer. Parallel to his musical career he developed a business in the field of …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … on my own part, asking friends and acquaintances around the world (120 responses) which of Berlin’s melodies they knew … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… emancipated and assimilated Jewish communities of the Old World and ends with the integration into the formerly East … 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. …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… recordings that are still emerging 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 …