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El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The Jewish musical life that developed in Saloniki consisted of these … Footnotes: 1. Albertos Nar, “Social Organisation and Activity of the Jewish Community in …
Bernardo Feuer
… and secondary school in his hometown and was drawn to music from an early age. Feuer learned the basics of music … 5th, 1942, Bernardo Feuer joined the Socialist Zionist organization “Poalei Sion-Seire Sion.” Living in Rosario, he … in the schools belonging to the “Vaad Hajinuj” (Central Organization of Jewish Education) and the School of …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… Maier Levi of Esslingen is volume 12 of the JMRC's Yuval Music Series. The new production comprises 179 liturgical … book: “Maier Levi bequeathed to posterity a manuscript of musical scores, a ‘cantorial compendium,’ that must be … (Head of the Friends of Jewish Culture in Esslingen and organizer of the event) and Prof. Edwin Seroussi. … …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … to imply that this piyyut was not to be accompanied by the organ . Remarks In this rendition, Samuël David … has been transcribed by Gerson Rosenstein, the first Jewish organist of the nineteenth-century German Reform movement, …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, … by tradition as Mount Sinai. It was a Passover celebration organized on the Sinai Peninsula by a group of eighty … as one of the songs in an online Yiddishist Third Seder organized by the New York-based Yiddish newspaper Forward . …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new bar in the musicological study of the piyyut . His insights on a … A x B we have seen in written sources in terms of rhythmic organization (fixed meter in A, flexible beat in the …
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 … fund: 6998. 1929–1935), the “Central Jewish schools organization, Private evening gymnasium for adults …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… 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. … community orchestras and later on a provisional orchestra organized by his “supporters” (63). These venues, it should …
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 … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. … could also prosper. Berlin’s two great marketing coups in organizing army shows in the two world wars are striking …
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 … the first Jewish master to employ Ottoman makamlar as an organizing principle. The author of the musical setting …