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Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… the Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played … role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … set the first line of the prayer (divided into two parts) that encapsulates its main theme: Part one: שְׁמַע …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … kits, many of them produced in Israel. The subject of this article is the singing of the section known as the Four … Jewish Agency published in New York in 1954 on behalf of American and Canadian Jewish educators. In this publication, …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Sephardic milieu. The lyrics cover an apparently earthly topic, but do so with concealed and semi-overt … and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … circles abroad. It was already included in the early American Hebrew songster, Qovetz Shirei Tziyyon ve-Shirei …
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 … of these musicians moved to Israel in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, which had become …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, … companion to volume 12, album 2 of the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music titled Legend of Toil and Celebration … Gila Flam from the National Library of Israel; Dr. Alex Hartov from the Dartmouth College Archive of Jewish Sound; …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a joint … prevented the publication of her dissertation on the art of the Italian madrigal in 1933, she emigrated to Italy … ethnological paradigms took place among a new generation of American-born scholars since the early 1950s. Numerous …
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 … from Melngailis’s collection (nos. 65 and 74). Melngailis started collecting Jewish songs in 1899 in Keidan (Lithuania), … encounters are found elsewhere as well: There are Jewish-American songs about Jewish cowboys (Gottlieb 2004, 64). …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing numbers … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo … Salamone Rossi – Opera Omnia , 13 vols. Middleton: American Institute of …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… historical knowledge while assuming a distinction between particular agencies and general historical trajectories. … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he … is certainly possible that the adherence to Mahler in North American contexts also solidified Unger’s self-positioning …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… obsessed with copyrights, refused permissions to third parties even to cite a few words from his lyrics. As a … early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … as a given Berlin’s permanent place in the pantheon of American song, if not song in general. It's now 30 years …