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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 … Aryans is “not to be sought in the southerly reaches of the world” (p. xxvii). This idea is of course a critique of the …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 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 … Holocaust survivor and cantor in Firenze after World War II, NLI Y 1301, recorded in Firenze on February …
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 …
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 European Jewish communities of the New World. But as Tesler-Mabé clarifies, Unger’s Jewishness … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he …
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 … great marketing coups in organizing army shows in the two world wars are striking testimonies to his skill in this …
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 … Turkish Jewish Composer in Exile” read at the 34 th ICTM World Conference held in Astana, Kazakhstan on July 17, …
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 … University, an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov … for over two decades. They had not only traversed cultural worlds, but had also suffered a deep loss of status. Having …
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, … Aitchison and Sarah Mnatzaganian www.aitchisoncellos.com * World-premiere recording streaming-only recording, not …
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 …