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Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Words , 1946]: This research was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel and the … project and will be updated as new information is gathered. It is part of the JMRC project of publishing a critical … Choir, congregation and Moshe (“Mona”) Rosenbloom’s orchestra, conducted by Binyomin Hartman at a wedding banquet …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in … in musical practice, and the Iraqi musicians provided an incredibly rich case study to investigate. In Baghdad, Jewish … Broadcast Authority (IBA) —supported an Arabic music orchestra on its ‘Voice of Israel in Arabic’ channel, which …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Press, 2020. Biographical narratives are often based on the idea of historical influence: they aim at demonstrating how individuals altered the course of history (“made history”) and how they were … and was therefore impelled to conduct small community orchestras and later on a provisional orchestra organized by …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… 2 … 10 … 708 … The 78rpm recordings that are still emerging from archives … is one of the many popular Sephardi songs that have not entered the canon of the modern discography. It also barely … June 6, 1991). Avzaradel, who possessed one of the richest living memories of the song in Ladino, describes in …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection . … Jewish items in Melngailis’s collection, which were considered lost, were retrieved by Karnes (apparently only … of all-Jewish programs with the “Jewish minorities’ orchestra.” The events were advertised in both Yiddish and …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… On March 15, 1899, the distinguished scholar, cantor, composer and avid … who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, Birnbaum proposed that musical … founder and artistic director of the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra , arranged at my request several of these additional …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … Moroccan musicians in Israel. This short note prepared by JMRC Director, Professor Edwin Seroussi, draws among … Jewish musicians keeping their cards close to their chests, refused to share them with interested academics or …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew … southern Germany and northern France. However, it also acquired two new layers of meaning. The first was a Jewish … in the Hasidic story above), during which Jews beat their chest with each word as an expression of remorse, is chanted …
Illusions of Grandeur: The Instruments of Daniel 3 Reconsidered
… This essay began simply as an attempt to identify the enigmatic instruments in Nebuchadnezzar’s orchestra. Along the way it became apparent that the study of … Illusions of Grandeur: The Instruments of Daniel 3 Reconsidered … Michael Lesley …
The Biblical NEBEL
… The ne b el , mentioned 27 times in the Bible, is generally … supposed to have been a harp , and probably of the upper-chested type (i.e. with the resonator held upright against … harps before the Hellenistic period; those that then appeared were few in number, and in both form and context …