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Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … trilogy of sorts, alongside Hankus Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia … corpus of material upon which Rubin and his contemporary researchers relies came about through a generational overlap …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… dedicated to the life and work of cellist, composer, researcher and pedagogue Joachim-Yehoyachin Stutschewsky … glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online … downloadable program notes on the genesis of this work, musical analysis of the composition, and an extensive …
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 first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … Taqsim , released in the framework of the Jewish Music Research Centre’s Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel …
David Conway
… David Conway is an Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish … Studies in 2019-20. His publications include Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to … opera company HGO. (Photo credit: Smerus ) … British music historian … David Conway …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… there are many), not showing much in the way of original research, and full of phrases (such as “in all likelihood’’, … 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. …
Dan Deutsch
… Deutsch is currently an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. … earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. His … social status as part of a Jewish minority. In his current research, he expands the scope of his dissertation by …
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 … in our new production shows the extent to which detailed research complicates the paths of transmission of the songs …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… 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 … 9, 1970 (NLI Y 0278) Much remains to be refined in our research of the liturgical insertion “Elohim hashivenu.” The …
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 … 1906; Idelsohn 1932, xviii, fn. 1), which he most likely researched for sources of Yiddish songs (but to no avail). …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… 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 … Gerson Kiwi, whose life and work are the subject of a major research project of the JMRC, met Nehemiah Hocha in …