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Jewish music and mystic

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY OCTOBER 22, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. This show aims to study the relation between Jewish music and mystics, with Franklin Rausky, conference master at the Strasbourg's University and director of studies at the Elie Wiesel Institute in Paris …

Charles-Valentin Alkan, from Jewish faith to modernity

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2013, Judaïques FM (94.8), 21h05. Musicologist Anny Kessous Dreyfuss introduces us to Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888), a composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher whose talent was often compared to that of Chopin or Liszt …

Jewish-Portuguese Music – The musical traditions of the ancient Marrano communities from South West of France

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JULY 2, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. In this programme, illustrated with numerous sound examples, the musicologist Hervé Roten presents the fascinating history of the musical traditions of the Portuguese Jewish community of south-west France …

Klezmer, Gypsy : a common musical story

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MAY 7, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. A fascinating story with commentary by Astrid Ruff and illustrated with many samples of klezmer and gypsy music …

The Jewish work of Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986)

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MARCH 12, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. With Mireille Tansman Zanuttini (daughter of the composer) and the musicologist Cédric Segond-Genovesi, on the occasion of the release of Alexandre Tansman's memoirs published by the Editions Aedam Musicae …

Purim or Esther’s holiday in music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8). This radio program, commented and supervised by the cantor and Rabbi Jacques Arnold, offers an unprecedented musical vision of the festival of Purim: readings of the Megillat Esther in different traditions to popular and children's songs, from Purim-Shpil to art music - such as Esther's oratorio (1774) of Lidarti …

The Jews from Iran and their music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JANUARY 15, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Disovering Jewish music from Iran, with Alain Chaoulli, author of a PhD on the Jewish musicians in Iran in the 19th and 20th centuries, and their contribution to the safeguard of the Iranian musical heritage …

Music by Jews from Algeria

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2012, JUDAÏQUES FM, 21H05. In this programme, Anne-Hélène Hoog, historian, and curator of the exhibition "Les Juifs d'Algérie" at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme in Paris, gives us a glimpse of this lost world, where Jews and Muslims were, for centuries, joint bearers of the Algerian musical heritage …

Judeo-Spanish songs by women from Morocco

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY OCTOBER 23, 2012, JUDAÏQUES FM, 21H05. Radio programme dedicated to the women of Morocco, custodians of an important repertoire of Judeo-Spanish songs, with the participation of Vanessa Paloma, associate researcher at the Hadassah Brandeis Institute of Brandeis University (Boston - USA) …

Norbert Glanzberg – From popular songs to Jewish music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JUNE 5, 2012 - JUDAIQUES FM, 21h05. Radio programme dedicated to the composer, melodist and virtuoso pianist Norbert Glanzberg, who became famous for his film scores and popular songs. With the participation of Serge Glanzberg, son of the composer …

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