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Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the perception of his setting of … endows him with an aura of authenticity valued by modern scholars. Undoubtedly, Rossi composed this text … i at the composer’s community in early seventeenth-century Modena. The cantors he heard probably inspired him, but when …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… Sephardi songs that have not entered the canon of the modern discography. It also barely survived in the Sephardic … the song and arranged it for choir, in the spirit of the modernist approach to folk songs characteristic of the twentieth-century Bulgarian school of composition. His modern polyphonic arrangement was recorded by the choir …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Unger’s biography arguably abandons the “frustrating model” of categorical inclusion or exclusion from Jewishness … his analysis proves otherwise. To avoid essentialist modes of thinking it is necessary to adopt elastic, mutable, … Mahler also straddles the ground between romanticism and modernism and, following the revival of his oeuvre in the …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… could speak”. This latter phrase Kaplan singles out as “modernism on the hoof: startlingly formal innovation …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… adage became the opening line of one of the most popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, …
Moshe Cordova
… Israeli Radio from the Ohel Moed synagogue, the central and modern Sephardic sanctuary in south Tel Aviv. Two …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… and had also laid the foundation for what became known as modern Iraqi music. Most of these musicians moved to Israel … Its development was entwined with ideas and processes of modernization. Warkov focused especially on takasim —the …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… from 1924 shows Stutschewsky’s exposure to Central European modernism embedded within a Jewish multi-ethnic scene that …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Harshav’s) that allows him to view the genre as a common mode of expression with its own variations across Jewish … terms that Rubin has set out for himself—one chapter on mode and form, and the other on ornamentation—yes, …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… characterized it throughout history, with the rise of the modern national/ethno-religious conflicts in the Middle East …