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Ashkenazic and Italian Liturgy
… foreign “harmonic” elements to cantorial music since early modern times, as manifest in Chazzanim’s notebooks and other forms of musical hybridity of the period (such as Isaac Nathan/ Lord Byron’s Hebrew Melodies). …
Bloch: Known and Unknown
… of one’s tradition. If this paradox was crucial to Bloch’s ‘modernity’, was he aware of it and was it shared by critics … this dilemma of Bloch reception and interpretation in the Modernist and Post-Modern eras with particular reference to … own definite style within their own respective historical period, Bloch was unique. He was a wanderer and explorer, …
Avraham Soltes
… major work on Jewish Music, Off the Willows: The Rebirth of Modern Jewish Music. board of the National Jewish Book … at West Point. There at the U.S. Military Academy, for a period longer than that spent by any religious leader in …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… frontier with Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish … books that served as a bridge to the new national-Zionist period. (Geshuri, 1970, part 1, 1) Geshuri began to show … the rapidly growing hub for Eastern European Jews seeking modern education, studied at a gymnasium and then at the …
Aaron Copland
… York’s League of Composers, often writing for its journal, Modern Music. He organized concert series and festivals, … a supervisor at the Cos Cob Press, a publishing house for modern American Music. It was also during this period that Copland took a new direction in his …
Joseph Achron
… and studied orchestration with M. Steinberg. During that period, he composed mostly works for violin and chamber … him in his obituary as: “one of the most under-estimated modern composers; the originality and profound elaboration … by Paganini with Piano accompaniment (1919-22) displaying modern harmonic influences. Achron’s entire oeuvre combines …
Alexander A. Krein
… there, and he became a prominent figure in the school of modern Russian composition. Krein’s early work was deeply … on Jewish music, Krein returned to composing music in the modern Russian style. One of the most noted works from this period was his ballet, Laurentsia . … Composer … 0 … …
Elio Piattelli
… Academy of Rome with two works for choir. In the post-war period he was director of the choir of the Politeama Theater … with a very simple method that takes into account the modern Sephardi pronunciation of Hebrew practiced in Israel. … He also wrote compositions for various liturgical texts and modern Hebrew poetry. Already in 1937 he published, 'Enèyha …
Haim Effendi
… Haim was a quintessential Sephardi singer of his period, a critical era of deep social and cultural … community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered by modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western … least four languages: Judeo-Spanish; Turkish; Arabic; and modern Hebrew, along with his command of the religious …
Israel Adler
… revised previous paradigms in the study of music of early modern Jewish communities. In 1963, Adler returned to … music, any music, in Hebrew characters until the early modern period, a project that was published as Hebrew Writings …