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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