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German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… Third, the use of instrumental music, most particularly the organ was a subject that resulted in extensive discussions. …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… historically informed and creative performances, and organized a network of annual conventions such as KlezKamp. …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… self-exclusions necessary in the first place. The book is organized chronologically and by theme into three parts. …
Moshe Cordova
… the first Jewish master to employ Ottoman makamlar as an organizing principle. The author of the musical setting …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… could also prosper. Berlin’s two great marketing coups in organizing army shows in the two world wars are striking …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… community orchestras and later on a provisional orchestra organized by his “supporters” (63). These venues, it should …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… fund: 6998. 1929–1935), the “Central Jewish schools organization, Private evening gymnasium for adults …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… A x B we have seen in written sources in terms of rhythmic organization (fixed meter in A, flexible beat in the …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… by tradition as Mount Sinai. It was a Passover celebration organized on the Sinai Peninsula by a group of eighty … as one of the songs in an online Yiddishist Third Seder organized by the New York-based Yiddish newspaper Forward . …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… to imply that this piyyut was not to be accompanied by the organ . Remarks In this rendition, Samuël David … has been transcribed by Gerson Rosenstein, the first Jewish organist of the nineteenth-century German Reform movement, …