Tomorrow, Wednesday Apr 27, 2016 at 6:30 PM
At the Center for Jewish History
A MUSICAL JOURNEY FROM RUSSIA
Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series
Presented by YIVO and the American Society for Jewish Music
Admission: $10 / YIVO/ASJM members & students: $7
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With the encouragement of Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, a group of young Jewish musicians at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory were inspired to organize the Society for Jewish Folk Music in 1908. Its main purpose was to create a modern national style of Jewish concert music. This growing interest in Jewish nationalism and Yiddish folk culture resulted in the study of Jewish folk music from the Pale of Settlement through fieldwork, public lectures, publications, and concerts, and eventually the branches of the Society were founded in other parts of Russia. Among the Society's prominent members were Lazare Saminsky, Aleksandr Krein, Solomon Rosowsky, Mikhail Gnesin, Moyshe (Mikhail) Milner, Joel (Yo'el) Engel, and Joseph Achron. But by the mid-1920s and early 1930s, politics and economic realities, as well as World War I and the Revolution in Russia, caused many of them to immigrate to Europe, Palestine, and the United States. This concert highlights their wonderful music and follows their journey.
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The Latest Issue of Musica Judaica
The new issue of Musica Judaica (Volume 20 is now available.
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.
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.
Membership for 2015-16
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