UPCOMING PROGRAMS
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 7 PM
At the Center for Jewish History
"Klezmer: Music, History & Memory"
Walter Zev Feldman, Visiting Professor of Music, NYU Abu Dhabi
Admission is free. Please RSVP to [email protected]
Emerging in 16th century Prague, the klezmer became a unique feature of the largest transnational Jewish culture of modern times—the Ashkenazim of Eastern Europe. No other documented Jewish culture produced a comparable phenomenon. Much of the musical and choreographic history of the Ashkenazim is embedded in the klezmer repertoire, which functioned as a kind of non-verbal communal memory. Based on the author’s new book, Klezmer: Music, History and Memory (Oxford University Press, 2016), this talk and discussion focuses both on the klezmer repertoire and performance style as expressions of Jewish musical thought, and the significance of the klezmer profession within Jewish and non-Jewish society in Eastern Europe.
Walter Zev Feldman is a leading researcher in both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, and a performer on the klezmer dulcimer cimbal (tsimbl). During the mid-1970s, the and Andy Statman studied with the preeminent klezmer clarinetist Dava Tarras and were two of the creators of the klezmer revival. At the time, Feldman reintroduced the cimbal into klezmer music, notably in their groundbreaking 1979 LP Jewish Klezmer Music.
In 1998 he co-founded the Khevrisa ensemble with Steven Greenman—their CD European Klezmer Music was issued by Smithsonian-Folkways in 2000. He is an authority on Ashkenazic dance, which he has taught in Israel, Germany, Canada and the U.S. Feldman is currently a Visiting Professor of Music at NYU in Abu Dhabi, Director of the Ansky Institute for Jewish Expressive Culture at the CTMD in New York, and he serves on the board of the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae at the University of Münster, Germany.
Discussants: James Loeffler, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia and Glenn Dynner, Professor of Religion, Sarah Lawrence College
This program is co-sponsored by AJHS, YIVO, the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, and the An-sky Institute for Jewish Cultureat the Center for Traditional Music and Dance.
Walter Zev Feldman is a leading researcher in both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, and a performer on the klezmer dulcimer cimbal (tsimbl). During the mid-1970s, the and Andy Statman studied with the preeminent klezmer clarinetist Dava Tarras and were two of the creators of the klezmer revival. At the time, Feldman reintroduced the cimbal into klezmer music, notably in their groundbreaking 1979 LP Jewish Klezmer Music.
In 1998 he co-founded the Khevrisa ensemble with Steven Greenman—their CD European Klezmer Music was issued by Smithsonian-Folkways in 2000. He is an authority on Ashkenazic dance, which he has taught in Israel, Germany, Canada and the U.S. Feldman is currently a Visiting Professor of Music at NYU in Abu Dhabi, Director of the Ansky Institute for Jewish Expressive Culture at the CTMD in New York, and he serves on the board of the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae at the University of Münster, Germany.
Discussants: James Loeffler, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia and Glenn Dynner, Professor of Religion, Sarah Lawrence College
This program is co-sponsored by AJHS, YIVO, the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, and the An-sky Institute for Jewish Cultureat the Center for Traditional Music and Dance.
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Included in this volume are articles on Cantor Abraham Baer and the Gothenburg Synagogue (his influential Baal T'fillah is on the cover); a very important inventory of Shoah songbooks; memorial tributes to singer-songwriter Debbie Friedman, Yiddish archivist Chana Mlotek, and past ASJM president, composer Jack Gottlieb. Also there are two interesting articles about doing field research as a participant as well as an observer.
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Included in this volume are articles on Cantor Abraham Baer and the Gothenburg Synagogue (his influential Baal T'fillah is on the cover); a very important inventory of Shoah songbooks; memorial tributes to singer-songwriter Debbie Friedman, Yiddish archivist Chana Mlotek, and past ASJM president, composer Jack Gottlieb. Also there are two interesting articles about doing field research as a participant as well as an observer.
Musica Judaica is Included as a part of membership dues in the American Society for Jewish Music for 2014-15.
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