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Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … of one of Berlin’s more mediocre works, “Oh, how that German Could Love”in Berlin’s own 1909 recording (xiii-xv). … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … that a new paradigm of Jewish liturgical music developed in German-speaking communities parallel to the gradual rise of …
Curt Sachs
… Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and composition as a youth in that city. He … (1960): 88–89. (in French) … American musicologist of German birth, founders of modern organology … Musicologist … German Jews … American … organologist … Curt Sachs …
Oratorio Ester - The salvation of Israel by Esther (Video)
… The salvation of Israel by Esther by Cristiano G. Lidarti (music) and Rabbi Jacob Raphael Saraval (libretto). Based on … Produced by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Jewish Music Research Centre, Tel-Ad Jerusalem Studios. Recorded in … libretto by Jacob Raphael Saraval, with French, English and German. A full video documentation with Hebrew, English and …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of ethnomusicologist Avigdor Herzog (1922-2022), one of the founders … the Reverend Eliezer Abinun (1912-1998) and the Southern German liturgical tradition from Cantor Avigdor Unna …
The Idelsohn Project
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in … niggun) Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, was a European-born Jewish musician who insisted that music and affect were inseparable … of his autobiography written in Hebrew, English and German with added selections from the oral memoire of …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… to break away from the ghetto, such as the composer German composer of Jewish origin Giacomo Meyerbeer (whose … his own Gesamtkunstwerk, ‘Yiftah’, as ‘hizzayon negini’ (musical play). Modern Hebrew writers embraced the biblical … plays, plural of ‘hizzayon’] of Israel’s history, with musical accompaniment (i.e., ‘hizzayon negini’), ‘that will …
A Liturgy within the Liturgy: The German Torah Service in Past and Present
… Theater und Medien in Hannover (HMTMH) And the Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of … open study session A Liturgy within the Liturgy: The German Torah Service in Past and Present In the framework of the collaborative project German-Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections funded by the …
Jewish-German Musical Encounters in Hamburg
… by Prof. Edwin Seroussi in the conference "Jewish Music Research: Case Study Hamburg" convened by Prof. Reinhard Flender at the University of Music Hamburg, March 1-3, 2022. For a video of the complete … … A Lecture by Edwin Seroussi … Jewish-German Musical Encounters in Hamburg …
Judith Cohen
… Judith Cohen was born in Germany. When she has four year old, she immigrated to … and lived in Tel Aviv. Cohen studied at "the seminary for music teachers" (1953-1956). After her military service, she … she wrote her doctoral thesis, which focused on Renaissance music. Upon her return to Israel, she began teaching at "the …