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The Jewish Music Forum
2007-2008
EXPANDING
THE MARGINS OF JEWISH MUSIC
All
seminars take place in the Forchheimer
Auditorium
at
the Center for Jewish History
15
West 16th Street
,
New York City
Events
are free and open to the public
Click HERE
for a complete list of Forum presentations, 2005-2007
February
22, 2008 – 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Creating
"New" Jewish Sounds
Dr.
Josh Kun, University of Southern California
Dr. Judah M. Cohen, Indiana University
Daniel Saks, member of the bands DeLeon and The LeeVees
January
25,
2008 – 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Felix
Mendelssohn and the Jewish Question
Dr.
Jeffrey Sposato, University of Houston
Respondent: Dr. Michael A. Meyer, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion
November 20,
2007 – 7:00 PM
Yiddish
Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive
Chana
Mlotek, YIVO Music Archivist
Prof. Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University
with a performance by Zalmen Mlotek and Eleanor Reissa
2006-2007
MUSIC,
MEDIA AND MEMORY IN JEWISH LIFE
The Jewish Music Forum is pleased
to introduce its third
season, Music, Media, and Memory in Jewish
Life, in its continued efforts to
explore and expand the geographic, disciplinary, and conceptual
boundaries of
how Jewish music is understood in today’s academic world.
Among the common
themes of the 2006-2007 season will be the provocative music
as cultural property in the early
twentieth-century United States, post-Holocaust Europe, and the
contemporary
Middle East; how technology simultaneously expands
and fragments the meaning and reception of musical experience; and how
gender
informs the performance and memory of Jewish musics, both traditional
and
modern.
All
seminars take place in the Forchheimer
Auditorium
at
the Center for Jewish History
15
West 16th Street
,
New York City
Events
are free and open to the public
Click HERE
for a complete list of Forum presentations, 2005-2007
September
15, 2006 – 10:30AM-12PM
How
Do You Play the Musical Scream in Gideon Klein's Terezin
Requiem?
Prof.
Michael Beckerman, New York
University
Respondent: Gershon Kingsley, composer and conductor
October
20, 2006 – 10:30AM-12PM
Music
and Memory among Crypto-Jews in Portuguese Border Villages
Dr.
Judith Cohen, York
University, Toronto
Respondent:
Prof. Jane Gerber, CUNY
Graduate
Center
Co-sponsor:
American Sephardi Federation
November
10, 2006 – 10:30AM-12:30PM
Composing Herself: Finding Miriam Gideon in Her
1958 Opera Fortunato
*Lecture
Performance and Panel Discussion
Stephanie
Jensen-Moulton, CUNY
Graduate
Center
Panel
discussion: Prof. Ellie Hisama, Columbia University, Prof.Bruce Saylor,
CUNY
Graduate
Center, and Cantor Charles Osborne
December
8, 2006 – 10:30AM-12PM
Mediterranean
Israeli Music: The Politics of Aesthetics
Dr.
Amy Horowitz, Ohio
State
University
Respondent:
Prof. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York
University
Co-sponsor:
American Sephardi Federation
February
16, 2007 – 10:30AM-12PM
Sephardic
Music On Record:
A Century of Commercial Ladino Recordings
Prof.
Edwin Seroussi,
Hebrew
University, Jerusalem
and Joel Bresler, discographer
Repsondent: Dr.
Virginia Danielson, Harvard
University
Co-sponsor:
American Sephardi Federation
March
9, 2007 – 10:30AM-12PM
The Media and
the Messenger:
Transforming
the Cantor's Art in the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction
Prof.
Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers
University
Respondents:
Prof. Barbara
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York
University
Prof. Mark Slobin, Wesleyan
University
April 27, 2007 – 10:30AM-12PM
Blacks
and Jews in American Popular Music:
The Business of Cultural Mediation
Prof.
Jonathan Karp, SUNY Binghamton
Respondent:
Prof. Jonathan Schorsch, Columbia
University
May 8, 2007 – 7:30PM-9:30PM
Kurt Weill's
Kol Nidre
Lecture
and Music Performance
Prof.
Tamara Levitz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Respondent:
Prof. Kim Kowalke, Eastman School of Music ,
Kurt Weill Foundation
Co-sponsors:
Milken Archive of American Jewish Music, Kurt Weill Foundation, and
European
American Music
All
events are in
the auditorium of the Center for Jewish History, 16 West 15th Street
at
10:30 A.M. For information on the series please
contact the American Society for Jewish Music at 212-294-8328 or e-mail info@jewishmusicforum.org.
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