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Introduction to Idelsohn’s Autobiographical Sketches
… health forced him to retire from his teaching position at the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati. The retirement, at the early age of fifty-two, came only two … Chasanim Welt , the journal of the organization of Jewish cantors in Poland; the second, in English, was printed half …
My Life: A Sketch
… I was born in the fisher-hamlet Phoelixburg, on the Baltic Sea, between Windau and Sackenhausen, Latvia. My … will later become my teacher. The above mentioned cantors had less voice than he, but much sweeter, and their …
The Announcement of the Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem by A.Z. Idelsohn and S.Z. Rivlin in 1910
… From the beginning of the twentieth century onwards, efforts were made, in various … in time and place, were certain initiatives affecting the cantorial profession: organizations, journals, and endeavours to set up institutions for the training of cantors. Each of these domains, the fostering and study and …
An Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem
… musicians and singers in Jerusalem and in Erez Israel, to the Sephardim and also the Ashkenazim, Jews of Yemen and likewise the Jews of … Persia and Babylonia, and to all the Jewish musicians and cantors in the entire world, from the Jews of [Western] …
Inventing Jewish Music
… It was 1848, and the music of central Europe's Jewish communities was in a state of chaos. In the cities, acculturation was moving ahead full throttle; … however, not a time of passive acquiescence, and the Jewish cantors of central Europe, troubled by the growing awareness …
The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… Nineteenth-century Germany witnessed a fundamental change in the process by which a hazzan learned his art. The increasing phenomenon since the later eighteenth century of individual German cantors, here and there, notating their own compositions had …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… Between Tradition and Modernity: The High Holy Days Melodies of Minhag Ashkenaz According to Ḥazzan Maier Levi of Esslingen is volume 12 of the JMRC's Yuval Music Series. The new production comprises … bequeathed to posterity a manuscript of musical scores, a ‘cantorial compendium,’ that must be regarded as one of the …
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… This study proposes to present the outlines of a significant but forgotten chapter in synagogue chant. The aspect of cantorial music here considered forms part of the solo …
Bernardo Feuer
… Feuer was born on May 1 st , 1910 in Lemberg [Lviv], a city then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but now in Ukraine. He was the … … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanut, Hazzanim, Cantors – Hazzanim, Cantors … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… The Sephardic copla, El incendio de Saloniki (The Fire of Saloniki), also known as La cantiga del fuego … recordings of David Saltiel, Sephardic community leader and cantor born in Saloniki in 1931. Saltiel offers us the voice …