THE NEXT JEWISH MUSIC FORUM EVENT:
APRIL 2016
“Pavel Haas’ Al S’fod and Defiance--Performance as Ouija Board”
Dr. Michael Beckerman (Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Music at New York University)
Monday, April 4, 2016 at 7pm.
24 Waverly Place, Room 220 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)
New York University (NYC)
Featuring singers: Kenneth Feibush, David Malecki, Jay O'Brien, and Cantor Joshua Breitzer
Admission is free.
Please RSVP to: [email protected]
Pavel Haas' a cappella composition Al S’fod was the first work he composed in Terezin after a year of internment. Based on a labor Zionist text by David Shimoni, all commentators cast Al S’fod as a work of defiance. This lecture demonstration explores the ways in which performance can be like a ouija board. The "invisible hand" guiding us to certain conclusions about a composition is often our own.
Michael Beckerman is author of several books including New Worlds of Dvorak (2003), Janacek and His World (2004), Martinu’s Mysterious Accident (2007) and has written articles on Czech subjects, music and exile, music of the Roma, film music, concepts of time in Gilbert and Sullivan, and the musical score as historical document. He writes for The New York Times, and lectures in the United States, England and Europe. He is currently writing about Gideon Klein and working on several other projects related to the music of Terezin and the camps. He has received the Janáček Medal from the Czech Ministry of Culture and last year was awarded an honorary doctorate by Palacký University in the Czech Republic.
"New Sounds of Old Judeo-Spanish Songs"
Dr. Edwin Seroussi (Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Director, The Jewish Music Research Centre), contributor Joel Bresler, and discussant Dr. Stephen Blum (CUNY Graduate Center).
Monday, April 18, 2016 at 7pm.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Admission is free.
Please RSVP to: [email protected]
Some of the oldest recordings of Sephardic music (c.1906-1913), have recently resurfaced at the EMI Archive in London. Recorded in a variety of locations in the Ottoman Empire, they feature the voices of legendary performers of the Judeo-Spanish song at the turn of the twentieth century. After being digitized, the Jewish Music Research Centre is preparing a scholarly edition of these recordings to make them available to the public worldwide.
Edwin Seroussi is the Joyce Z. Greenberg Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago for Winter/Spring 2016.
MAY 2016
"New Directions in Jewish Music"
Dr. Tamar Barzel (Guest Curator, Fales Library-Downtown Collection, NYU Bobst Library)
Featuring a musical performance by Uri Caine.
Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 7pm.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Admission is free.
Please RSVP to: [email protected]
More information to come.
JUNE 2016
"Jews and Popular Music in the Americas"
Presentation and roundtable discussion by Dr. Amalia Ran, Dr. Moshe Morad, and Dr. Nili Belkind, moderated by Dr. Judah M. Cohen. Featuring a musical performance by Dr. Ben Lapidus and his band and Roberto Juan Rodríguez and his band.
Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 8pm.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Admission is free.
Please RSVP to: [email protected]
More information to come.
A Book talk and Performance in coordination with the American Jewish Historical Society's Biennial Scholars Conference, in recognition of the publication of Mazal Tov Amigos: Jews and Popular Music in the Americas (Brill, 2016).
“Pavel Haas’ Al S’fod and Defiance--Performance as Ouija Board”
Dr. Michael Beckerman (Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Music at New York University)
Monday, April 4, 2016 at 7pm.
24 Waverly Place, Room 220 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)
New York University (NYC)
Featuring singers: Kenneth Feibush, David Malecki, Jay O'Brien, and Cantor Joshua Breitzer
Admission is free.
Please RSVP to: [email protected]
Pavel Haas' a cappella composition Al S’fod was the first work he composed in Terezin after a year of internment. Based on a labor Zionist text by David Shimoni, all commentators cast Al S’fod as a work of defiance. This lecture demonstration explores the ways in which performance can be like a ouija board. The "invisible hand" guiding us to certain conclusions about a composition is often our own.
Michael Beckerman is author of several books including New Worlds of Dvorak (2003), Janacek and His World (2004), Martinu’s Mysterious Accident (2007) and has written articles on Czech subjects, music and exile, music of the Roma, film music, concepts of time in Gilbert and Sullivan, and the musical score as historical document. He writes for The New York Times, and lectures in the United States, England and Europe. He is currently writing about Gideon Klein and working on several other projects related to the music of Terezin and the camps. He has received the Janáček Medal from the Czech Ministry of Culture and last year was awarded an honorary doctorate by Palacký University in the Czech Republic.
"New Sounds of Old Judeo-Spanish Songs"
Dr. Edwin Seroussi (Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Director, The Jewish Music Research Centre), contributor Joel Bresler, and discussant Dr. Stephen Blum (CUNY Graduate Center).
Monday, April 18, 2016 at 7pm.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Admission is free.
Please RSVP to: [email protected]
Some of the oldest recordings of Sephardic music (c.1906-1913), have recently resurfaced at the EMI Archive in London. Recorded in a variety of locations in the Ottoman Empire, they feature the voices of legendary performers of the Judeo-Spanish song at the turn of the twentieth century. After being digitized, the Jewish Music Research Centre is preparing a scholarly edition of these recordings to make them available to the public worldwide.
Edwin Seroussi is the Joyce Z. Greenberg Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago for Winter/Spring 2016.
MAY 2016
"New Directions in Jewish Music"
Dr. Tamar Barzel (Guest Curator, Fales Library-Downtown Collection, NYU Bobst Library)
Featuring a musical performance by Uri Caine.
Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 7pm.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Admission is free.
Please RSVP to: [email protected]
More information to come.
JUNE 2016
"Jews and Popular Music in the Americas"
Presentation and roundtable discussion by Dr. Amalia Ran, Dr. Moshe Morad, and Dr. Nili Belkind, moderated by Dr. Judah M. Cohen. Featuring a musical performance by Dr. Ben Lapidus and his band and Roberto Juan Rodríguez and his band.
Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 8pm.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Admission is free.
Please RSVP to: [email protected]
More information to come.
A Book talk and Performance in coordination with the American Jewish Historical Society's Biennial Scholars Conference, in recognition of the publication of Mazal Tov Amigos: Jews and Popular Music in the Americas (Brill, 2016).
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