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Translating Tropes (and Psalmodies): New Sources on Steve Reich’s Ethnographic Imports
… interview conducted as part of the Oral History of American Music project (December 15-16, 1986), Reich disclosed that … PSS). In practice, however, it was the logogenic performance of the liturgical text, namely, the melodic … in the 1970s in the intensive research of Hassidic and klezmer music. There are no records of a performance of …
The Musical Events of the 19th World Congress of Jewish Studies
… The musical program of the 19th World Congress of Jewish Studies … than high tones, with implications for both pedagogy and performance. Lenka Uličná presented newly discovered Yiddish … Department . Racheli Galay, this time appearing as a klezmer cellist, led a concert of Yiddish songs with Vira …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … employs a narrative strategy, analyzing “the conception, performance, and reception” of a single Habad nign, … in their corpus: tunes of local Mediterranean origin, klezmer tunes, and melodies of Yiddish popular and Hebrew …
Lied ohne Worte (chassidisch)
… Jews thrived and turned the Song without Words into pure music (is that a coincidence that a converted, assimilated … the cleaving with God, gives birth of the nigun and its performance is the vessel through which the hasid may … Played on the violin or cello, the dreidlakh adds a klezmer touch to the interpretation. However, Stutschewsky’s …
“Die alte Kasche” (Volkslied) – The Old Question (Folksong)
… (don’t rush) to the title, which invites an Andante-like performance, correlating with most other renditions of the … … Cello - Violoncello … Folk songs … Joachim Stutschewsky … Klezmer music … “Die alte Kasche” (Volkslied) – The Old Question …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… tunes, variations of the lyrics, arrangements and performance-practices reshaped its meanings and contexts of … content of his album. El jiwneh Hagalil answered both the musical and pedagogical requirements of this album. … … Cello - Violoncello … Folk songs … Joachim Stutschewsky … Klezmer music … El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing … Kiselgof-Makonovestsky Digital Manuscript Project of the Klezmer Institute . Documented in 1915 from Aronson, it is … of the melody (eleven out of thirty-four bars in the actual performance) consist of bars of one or two tones only (bars …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … the B section (descriptions of notations made from live performance, of which no recording survives), and the K … collection have emerged legally in the website of the Klezmer Institute as an open digital humanities platform. …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … projects, prepared historically informed and creative performances, and organized a network of annual conventions …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… mid-century Yiddish secular culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into modern synagogue liturgical … the Hadassah Choral Union, a women’s choir devoted to the performance of Hebrew Zionist music. The many arrangements … songs. One can hardly find a gathering of Yiddish or klezmer musicians that does not include a heartfelt …
As If It Were Yesterday
… This book is accompanied by a CD (recording no. 4090) of music from some of the contemporary klezmer scene's most prominent bands and musicians. … 2 … … Arts … … 1463 … 1996 … Klezmer musicians … klezmer music performance … Ashkenazi … Michael Alpert … As If It Were …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… him. Actor and folk singer Theodore Bikel during a live performance humorously equated this song with the Jewish … begins with the introductory “khapt im, nempt im” line. The music to this opening section is more dense than in the rest … similar to the one in Beregovski's collection. The Israeli klezmer band ‘Oy Division’ also recorded this song on their …


