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2009-10 SEASON
Our next event of the season: This event is FREE to the public.
Prof. Mark Slobin is an American scholar and ethnomusicologist who has written extensively on the subject of East European Jewish music and klezmer music. He is a Professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University. He has been the president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Society for Asian Music. Two of his books on Jewish music have won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Dr. Mark Kligman is Professor of Jewish Musicology at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York where he teaches in the School of Sacred Music. "Sacred and Secular Music Texts in Modern Times" Manuscripts containing music in Jewish contexts are significantly rare, prior to 1750 there are less than 25 notations. By 1750 and onwards notation of Jewish liturgical music, and later non-liturgical music, becomes a growing phenomenon. The Eduard Birnbaum Collection of Jewish Liturgical manuscripts, in the Klau Library of Hebrew Union College--Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, is the largest collection of contains 65% of all known manuscripts of Jewish music prior to 1850. Mark Kligman will discuss the various music styles found with in these manuscripts and show a significant degree of secular influence in the 18th century. With the developments of Haskalah synagogue music changed significantly, through recorded example of the music in this collection Kligman will discuss the important changes of synagogue music in the 19th century. In "Yiddish Theater and Popular Music: Manuscript and Print Sources" Professor Mark Slobin will summarize his work on early twentieth-century Yiddish popular music, from both Europe and the US, based on manuscript sources held at YIVO, and sheet music editions published in New York's Lower East Side during the immigrant era. The manuscripts serve as information about the interaction of music and theater as well as performance practice in a largely improvisatory music theater system. Slobin will examine how sheet music folio bundles integrate iconography, song text, and music style. Finally, issues of Americanization and commercialization of European genres, themes, and styles will be explored. ---------------------------------
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