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Contemporary American Jewish Music
… twenty-first century, to many, Jews and non-Jews alike, the idea of a thriving secular Yiddish song culture seems … This new form of music in the Orthodox community challenges ideas of authenticity, appropriateness and the function of …
Bloch: Known and Unknown
… Jewish creativity, while at same time vindicating Wagner’s idea that true creativity relies on the immersion in the … the creation of Israel - as responses to Wagnerian racial idea? In this paper I discuss this dilemma of Bloch … authentic language for the expression of his individuality, ideas, philosophy, profound intellect, truthfulness and …
The Jewish idea in the creative work of Soviet Jewish immigrant composers in the eary 1970’s
… … Keren Ezrati … Joseph Dorfman … Lev Kogan … The Jewish idea in the creative work of Soviet Jewish immigrant …
Contemporary Jewish Music: A New Series of the JMRC (2009)
… to Israel in 1966. Educated in his native Hungary under the ideals of Béla Bartók and Zoltan Kodály, the combination of …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… to engage with great musical art as a universal edifying ideal, in conflict with his yearning to understand music in … this creation of a new musical language. Geshuri’s early ideas about Jewish national music in Palestine were … 1930). Two quotes will suffice to show his allegiance to ideas similar to those exposed by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, a …
Kurt Weill
… musicals that enjoyed tremendous popularity. Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful …
Yizhak Edel
… to Western harmony. His music is simple and retains the ideal of communicating with the listener. Edel’s works …
Joseph Achron
… the originality and profound elaboration of Joseph Achron’s ideas guarantee that his work will last”. Due to his time … ethnic musical tradition - first of all, dance rhythms. The idea of a “pure Jewish style” was further developed in the …
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
… thought-provoking autobiography and elsewhere, his ideas are similar to those of Schoenberg ’s in Style and Idea : against nationalism in music that is based on …
Ehud Manor
… 'Sabra'. She wanted to sing and thought it was a good idea to take American songs they knew and sing them in …