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At the Center for Jewish History in February 2013

Michael Ochs on Rumshinsky’s Di goldene kale:
The Art and History of Tailoring an Operetta to its Audience

Joseph Rumshinsky’s 1923 operetta Di goldene kale (The Golden Bride) is a work carefully designed to both move and entertain a very specialized American audience: Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Eastern Europe and their families. It is a thoroughly professional musical comedy with pathos (the basic ingredient), love, “Jewish-style” music, a kiddush, acts set in a shtetl and in America, a shadchen, a lullaby that slips into Russian, assimilated Jews speaking broken Yiddish, a paean to America, and other features that combine to offer its attendees a meaningful evening based on their past and present experiences. Included are original-cast and other recordings from the time. Michael Ochs is retired Richard F. French Librarian and Senior Lecturer on Music at Harvard University, as well as the past music editor at W. W. Norton publishers. He is currently preparing a critical edition of the operetta's score based on manuscript material from the original production.

At Yale University - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - Noon

The Vision of the East: Arabic Music as an Ideal in 80 Years of Israeli Art Music
Professor Jehoash Hirshberg, Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

With an introduction by Sarah Weiss, Professor of Music, Yale University

Sponsored by the Jewish Music Forum (a project of the American Society for Jewish Music), the Program in Judaic Studies, the Department of Music, the Department of Religious Studies, and The Council on Middle East

At Tulane in March 2013 - A day-long conference

As the Jewish Music Forum enters its ninth season, the American Society for Jewish Music is pleased to announce that, in addition to its sessions in New York City and in other locations around the country, the Jewish Music Forum will hold its first session in the south. Hosted by Tulane University in New Orleans, the day-long confernece, "Jewish Music in New Orleans," will be held on Monday, March 4th (with a concert the previous evening). Click here for the conference program:

Full Program iNFO

The Jewish Music Forum is a project of the American Society for Jewish Music. For more information and a complete listing of past programs visit www.jewishmusicforum.org.

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JUST PUBLISHED - DOUBLE ISSUE OF MUSICA JUDAICA

Just published and recently mailed to members is a double issue of Musica Judaica - more than 400 pages of articles, book, record, and concert reviews. Volume XIX also includes all of the reviews from ASJM's latest initiative, Musica Judaica Online Reviews (www.mjoreviews.org) which allow the Society to publish commentary more closely to the publication date of the items which are being reviewed.

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