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Yo me levantaría un lunes (6a)
… This song is performed at weddings, although the text refers only allusively to the event. The opening may be read symbolically: the bride goes to the …
Eres chiquita y bonita [Coplas de mateša] (5a)
… Songs 5a and 5b are composed of a series of couplets sung at the swing as a poetic-musical dialogue between a young man and a young woman. The couplets of some strophes are "positive" ( buenas ), speaking of love and the beauty of the beloved (e.g. v.1-34). Others are …
Mateša, mateša (4a)
… song girls sing while sitting on a swing ( mateša ). The word for swing is repeated at the beginning, followed by a phrase in Arabic (v.2), and by the words "a cup of gold full of treasure" (v.3-4) and "a …
Sebastián Díaz Peña
… The Venezuelan composer and pianist Sebastián Díaz Peña … a piano teacher. Later on, he was assistant conductor of the opera company of Egisto Petrilli, touring South America … Díaz Peña was forced into exile in Curaçao in 1915, when the government of President Cipriano Castro, of whose …
Ay, mi padre y ay, mi madre (3a)
… A bar mitzvah song. The boy asks his parents to prepare a room for him where he can study the torah (v.1-6). On the day of his bar mitzvah the child is bathed in perfumed …
The Musical Basis of Biblical Reading according to the Masoretic Accents
… 17 … 40285 … 199 … A Structural and Comparative Analysis … The Musical Basis of Biblical Reading according to the Masoretic Accents …
"Stretch Forth Your Hand to the Henna"
… 17 … 40277 … Yemenite Music in Israel as Reflected in the Contemporary Henna Ceremony … Yemenite … Rachel Halevi … "Stretch Forth Your Hand to the Henna" …
A Selection of Judeo-Spanish Songs
… of few songs in Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) following the practices of several of his predecessors and contemporaries, most notable the London Spanish-Portuguese hazzan the Reverend Eliezer Abinun . See also in our website the …
The Gibraltar Suite – A Song Cycle of Sephardic Melodies
… In June 2004, Lazarus performed with his grandfather Hazzan Beniso an orchestral suite he wrote for chamber ensemble, classical guitar and cantor as part of the tercentennial celebrations of British Gibraltar. His concert was one of three official musical events of the summer; the other two were Elton John and Suzanne Vega. …
Pavel Slavensky
… Czechoslovakia. He was one of six children of a hassid from the Belzer court. After WWII, he served at various congregations in the USA, became the first permanent cantor of the Adat Shalom Synagogue in …