Hervé Roten's Programs

The routes of klezmer: from Europe to America, passing through Africa.

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY NOVEMBER 22, 2016, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Special radio show dedicated to klezmer music, for the release of the CD's Yerushe and Somos los Cigarillos in concert November 24, 2016, 7 pm, in Paris for the festival Jazz'n'Klezmer. …

Arnold Schönberg’s Jewish musical work

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2016, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. The musicologist Danielle Cohen-Levinas introduces us to the Jewish works of Arnold Schönberg and his relationship with Judaism …

The sacred music of the world

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JULY 5, 2016, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. An initiatory journey through the Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hinduist, Buddhist and Animist music …

Shavuot – a door into the 8th dimension

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JUNE 7, 2016, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Learn everything concerning the holiday Shavuot and its music …

Healing music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - APRIL 12, 2016, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Traditional accounts, both in the Jewish world and in other civilizations, suggest that musical sound acts on the human unconscious, causing various effects such as healing of the soul and body. One of the most ancient testimonies of the healing power of music is found in the first book of Samuel, chapter XVI, where the young David relieves, with the help of his kinnor, the melancholy of King Saul …

The French-Arabic repertoire (2nd part)

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MARCH 15, 2016, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. This second part will focus on the life and work of some emblematic representatives of the second generation of singers. Among them: Blond-Blond, Lili Boniche, Albert Darmon dit Staïffi, Luc Cherki, El Kalaoui Tounsi, Maurice El Médioni, without forgetting the singer of the pied-noir song: Enrico Macias …

The French-Arabic song repertoire (1st part)

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY FEBRUARY 16, 2016, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. In the 1930s, a new generation of North African singers launched a new musical trend based on covers of French songs in Arabic or the creation of songs mixing Arabic and French. This trend, which lasted for more than 70 years, was later called "Chanson francarabe" …

Yiddish cabarets in Paris, from 1948 to 1970

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JANUARY 19, 2016, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. At the end of the 19th century, several parisian cafés became places for artistic performances, theatre, and Yiddish songs. But it is often short-lived …

Jacques Chalude, also called Ben Baruch : the multiple face artist

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY DECEMBER 29, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. For almost 50 years, Jacques Chalude, alias Ben Baruch, has enchanted thousands of listeners, in repertoires as varied as Yiddish songs, liturgy and classical music …

Dave Cash : the « crazy lad » of Yiddish cabarets

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY DECEMBER 1, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8). A radio broadcast which allow us to discver once again the music performed by Dave Cash, star of after war Yiddish cabarets …

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