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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 … historically informed and creative performances, and organized a network of annual conventions such as KlezKamp. …
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 … self-exclusions necessary in the first place. The book is organized chronologically and by theme into three parts. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 . …
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, …
The Meaning of the Modal Framework in the Singing of Religious Hymns by Christian Arabs in Israel
… we mean the accepted framework in which a certain musical repertoire is organized, as for instance, the Maqamat in Arab music or the Raga in Indian. Modal frameworks are …