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Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he … Mahler also straddles the ground between romanticism and modernism and, following the revival of his oeuvre in the …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which … Sephardi songs that have not entered the canon of the modern discography. It also barely survived in the Sephardic … for Performing Arts) conducted by Roumen Tsonev in the CD Jewish Songs from Bulgaria . The song itself starts at …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 49 … 58 … 710 … Jewish liturgy evolved in a multidirectional process. … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo … one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the perception of his setting of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the … a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … will be shown below) and are presented to the reader in a modern, annotated edition. A lengthy introduction provides …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … in Hebrew) for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a fast day in Jewish tradition marking the breach of Jerusalem’s … to a rapid diffusion of Jewish liturgical melodies in the modern era. Gershon Efros in his Cantorial Anthology (vol. …
Stefanie Mockert
… Mockert, who graduated in Musicology from Humboldt University, Berlin, is a researcher at the Hebrew University's Jewish Music Research Centré. Her studies focus on the … in which framework she contributed a study on the early modern community in Munich “Musical Transformation of …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … they imply not only the dissociation of those living in the modern state of Israel from the historical landscape from …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common source, … Jewish Music on August 3, 1978, which would launch the very modern phenomenon subsequently labeled the “Jewish Baroque.” …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … repertoire also reveals some of the ambivalent aspects of modern Moroccan Jewish identity. Religious zeal intertwines with modern secular practices, while rooted musical and textual …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most especially in the modern period, when new forms of expressing Jewishness …