Jewish Music in New Orleans
At Tulane University
Local Host:  John H. Barron

Preliminary Program

Sunday, March 3, 2013
Evening Concert


Monday, March 4, 2013

Greetings
Michael Leavitt
President, American Society for Jewish Music
 
Session I: European roots of American Jewish music
 (9 – 10:30 a.m.)

Speaker I: Brian Horowitz, Tulane University (historian) on the general European situation

Speaker 2: Mark Kligman, Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion (musicologist) on Jewish music in 19th-century Europe
Moderator: TBD


Session II: American Adaptations of the European Experiences
(11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)

Speaker I: Michael Cohen, Tulane University (historian)

Speaker 2: Judah Cohen, Indiana University(ethnomusicologist) on the American adaptation of European Jewish music
Moderator: TBD


Session III: The Particular New Orleans Experience vis-à-vis the European Roots and the General American Experiences (2:30-4 p.m.)

Speaker I: Stephen Whitfield, Brandeis University (historian)

Speaker 2: Jack Stewart (local architectural historian) on Jewish musicians in New Orleans in the jazz era
Moderator:  TBD