Lectures / conferences

Ashkenazi liturgical music in France

Lectures filmed on October 21, 2024 at the Auditorium of the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO - Paris), as part of the Symposium Ashkenazi music in France, at concerts or in synagogue - State of the art, origins, influences, traditions and (re)creations

Klezmer music in France

Lectures filmed on October 20, 2024 at the Auditorium of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme (Paris), as part of the Symposium Ashkenazi music in France, at concerts or in synagogue - State of the art, origins, influences, traditions and (re)creations

Yiddish song in France

Lectures filmed on October 20, 2024 at the Auditorium of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme (Paris), as part of the Symposium Ashkenazi music in France, at concerts or in synagogue - State of the art, origins, influences, traditions and (re)creations

Listening to the sacred

Audio recording of the conference "Listening to the sacred", organisde by the Villa Gillet and the Institution des Chartreux in Lyon, on January 30, 2020, with the participation of Hervé Roten, Jean During, Jean-Clément Jollet and François-Xavier Szymczak (moderator) …

Jewish music: when singular is plural

Lecture by Hervé Roten on the singular plurality of Jewish music given on November 6, 2019 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (Italy), as part of the session Art as/in Dialogue: Jewish and Christian Music

Jewish music and cuisine

An audiovisual conference hosted by Hervé Roten about songs speaking of the culinary specialties from Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, Oriental and Israeli traditions …

The mystical singing in Chasidic tradition – Marc-Alain Ouaknin

As part of the day of sudy Vox Aurea-Via Sacra 2014, dedicated to sacred Jewish music, Marc-Alain Ouaknin. Rabbi, philosopher and teacher in the faculty shares a reflexion about the …

Biblical cantillation and psalmody – Jean-Philippe Amar

As part of the day of study Vox Aurea-Via Sacra 2014, dedicated to sacred Jewish music, Jean-Philippe Amar, PhD in ethnomusicology and teacher of music education at the Paris academy, …

Fernand Halphen – A Jewish musician in the Great War : conference by Laure Schnapper

Presentation of the French composer Fernand Halphen, killed on duty for France in 1917 by Laure Schnapper, as part of the cycle of conferences : arts and politics, of the …

Kol Nidre

Watch the lectures by Delphine Horvilleur and Hervé Roten about the meaning of the Kol Nidre prayer and its music, as well as an excerpt of the concert, performed on …

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