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Dr. Arbie
Orenstein
Arbie
Orenstein was born and raised in New York City, attending the High School of
Music and Art, Queens College, and Columbia Graduate School, where he received a
PhD in Musicology. He is the author of Ravel: Man and Musician,
Columbia University Press, 1975 (reissued as a Dover paperback in 1991), and A
Ravel Reader, Columbia University Press, 1990 (reissued as a Dover paperback
in 2003), originally written in French as Ravel: Lettres, Ecrots, Entretiens,
published by Flammarion in 1989. As a pianist, he has accompanied many
outstanding cantos and has recorded the world premieres of several works by
Ravel which he discovered in France while on a United States Government
Fulbright grant. Dr. Orenstein is a professor of Music at Queens College,
where he teaches a course in Jewish music. He has written an introductory
essay on the life and work of A.Z. Idelsohn for the Dover reprint of Idelsohn's
classic text, Jewish Music in Its Historical Development, and was
recently knighted by the French government, receiving the medal of Chevalier of
the Order of Arts and Letters. |
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