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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… (IBA) —supported an Arabic music orchestra on its ‘Voice of Israel in Arabic’ channel, which provided a …
Moshe Cordova
… Elnadav in Brooklyn. Few precious recordings of Cordova’s voice have survived. At least two pieces sung by him appear …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… You can hear Flory’s amazing and moving story in her own voice in a 2013 Library of Congress interview . Today many …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… sort of standard ethnic comedy number, and Berlin’s reedy voice is recognizable thanks to his later successes. The …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… modern polyphonic arrangement was recorded by the choir “Voices of Vitiz” (of the Bulgarian Academy for Performing … Rhodes . New York: Sepher-Hermon Press, 1987. Bunis, David. Voices from Jewish Salonika: Selections from the Judezmo …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… verse of Psalm 28 that is added in oral tradition) for four voices is a testimony of the fact that in the minhag … of words in each repetition of this pledge of the praying voice (the community of Israel). He accomplished that by … the musical phrases as they appear in one of the four voices of Rossi’s work to correspond to the order of the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… It appears in Melngailis’s collection in an arrangement for voice and piano. Taking his cue from Idelsohn, Karnes notes …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… on radio programs and among academic circles. His pleasant voice and extraordinary memory turned him into a major …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Eric Werner, while discussing 'She'eh ne'esar' in his A Voice Still Heard: The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews … pp. 19-21). Levinsky included in his book a partial one-voice version of this piece. In the original piece, the … melody of “She’eh ne’esar” is arranged as a canon for four voices. A footnote to this composition states that “the …
Clara Wenz
… Cairo Egypt, 7-10 January 2019. “Music, Religion and Voice on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Border” (with Dr. Ilana …