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The Ethiopian Jewish liturgical songs

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY AUGUST 30, 2011, JUDAIQUE FM, 21h05. A radio program with Olivier Tourny, ethnomusicologist at the CNRS, who has devoted nearly 20 years of his life to Ethiopian Jewish music …

The role of Jewish musicians in 19th century Paris : the case of Henri Herz (Vienna 1803- Paris 1888)

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY JULY 5, 2011, JUDAIQUE FM, 21h05. With this work on Henri Herz, the musicologist Laure Schnapper talks in particular about the role of the Jewish composers – such as Hertz, Alkan, Fromental Halévy, Meyerbeer, Offenbach…in the 19th century's French music …

Judeo-Provencal music – The musical traditions of old Jewish communities from the Comtat Venaissin

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY MAY 10, 2011, JUDAIQUE FM, 21h05. Testimonies about the ancient music of Provencal Jews, with the historian Carol Iancu, the ethnomusicologist Hervé Roten and the musician Alain Huet, creator of the Judeo-Provencal band Nekouda …

Tribute concert to Shalom Berlinski

On December 5, 2010 at ULIF Copernic synagogue, film concert in tribute to Shalom Berlinski (1918-208) who was the first cantor of the Grande Synagogue de la Victoire (Paris) from 1948 to 1979 …

Music from Passover seder – A journey into the musical traditions of Passover

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY APRIL 12 2011, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.The cantor and rabbi Jacques Arnold explains the meanings of the various prayers that are sung during the Passover celebration …

Klezmer music of yesterday and today

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MARCH 15, 2011, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Listen about the various ways to approach klezmer music today, with, avec Claude Zwimer, founder of the music label JUMU, Eléonore Biezunski, musician and sociologist of music, and Alexandre Litwak, creator and arranger of the band « Gefilte swing » …

Baroque Jewish music concert – Venice, Mantua, Amsterdam (1623-1774)

Watch the concert: Baroque Jewish Music – Venice, Mantua, Amsterdam (1623-1774), featuring works by Salomone Rossi (ca 1570-ca 1630) and Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti (1730-after 1793) performed by the Texto Ensemble …

Tribute Concert to Jacques Grober

September 23, 2008, in the Salle Cortot in Paris, CD release concert Jacques Grober - Chansons yiddish d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, 7th CD in the collection MHJF …

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