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David Conway
… Studies in 2019-20. His publications include Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is a member of the editorial board of the … opera company HGO. (Photo credit: Smerus ) … British music historian … David Conway …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Irving Berlin: New York Genius . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. If you want a bog-standard show-biz biography … early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Biographical narratives are often based on the … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he … concerts whose programs revolved mainly around Mahler’s music to the repeated efforts to perform Mahler in Canada. …
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 repertoires of traditional music have evolved in the century or more since commercial … Levy, Rebecca. I Remember Rhodes . New York: Sepher-Hermon Press, 1987. Bunis, David. Voices from Jewish Salonika: …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… minhagim (“customs” or “traditions”) once the printing press started to produce prayer books in rapidly increasing … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo Levi recorded collection of Italian Jewish musical traditions includes four versions of Elohim …
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 … A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … styles, so as to circumvent the period of exile and express the return to the ancestral land. Karnes’s model …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of qinot from Spain dated in 1481 ('Poetry as an expression of spiritual reality in the late Sephardic piyyut … such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions …
Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… Association. Kapov-Kagan was well renowned for his expressive interpretations, released many recordings, and … … Hazzan … Chazzan … Odessa … Cantor … Composer … Synagogue music … New York … Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan …
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 … famous record is in fact by no means famous, I use this expression to highlight its centrality to this article as well … stored in the shelves of the Lebanese Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR). Located in the little …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , an insert of the Berlin-based periodical Die jüdische Presse . Birnbaum introduces in it the score of Kol … 1794). Arguing against writers who maintained that the music of Jewish communities can be reduced to a common …