Ashkenazi music in France, at concerts or in synagogue

State of the art, origins, influences, traditions and (re)creations

Colloquium – Concerts on 20 & 21 October 2024

An initiative of the European Institute of Jewish Music, the Institute for Research in Musicology (UMR 8223) and the University of Strasbourg (GEO – UR 1340)

In partnership with Inalco, JEM Culture, MAHJ and Nitsa

With the support of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) and the Fondation Henriette Halphen, under the aegis of the Fondation du Judaïsme Français

Organising committee: Alexandre Cerveux, Jérôme Cler, Alice Mazen, Hervé Roten and Michèle Tauber

REGISTRATION FORM at the bottom of the page

Sunday 20th October 2024

Auditorium du MAHJ

Hôtel de Saint-Aignan

71 rue du Temple, 75003 Paris

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Yiddish song and klezmer music

  • 9:30 am – Public welcome.
  • 9:45 am – Presentation of the day

Yiddish song in France

From theater to the revival of Yiddish song in the seventies and beyond 

  • 10 am – Between stage and music score: the music of interwar Yiddish theater in Paris (1919-1939), by Michèle Fornhoff-Levitt
  • 10:30 – 11:30 am – The revival of Yiddish song from the 70s onwards. Round table with Laurent Grynszpan, Michèle Tauber and Talila

From Yiddish choirs of yesterday and today to Yiddish song in the 21st century

  • 11:45 am – Yiddish choirs in France. Round table with Jean Golgevit and Jacinta
  • 12:30 – 1:15 pm – Yiddish song in France in the 21st century: the rising generation. Round table with Judith Marx and Elsa Signorile

—- Lunch break —-

Klezmer music in France

  • 2.30 pm – An attempt not to define klezmer music, by Léa Platini
  • 3 pm – Parisian Klezmer, by Denis Cuniot
  • 3:30 pm – 4 pm – Specificities of interpretation and appropriation of klezmer music by the Parisian music scene, by Alice Mazen

Klezmer music and its protagonists, between tradition and creation

  • 4.15 pm – Transmission of klezmer music in France today. Round table with Marthe Desrosières, Guillaume Dettmar, Marine Goldwaser, Léa Platini and Charles Rappoport
  • 5 pm – 5:45 pm – Stylistic fusions for original klezmer music. Round table with David el Shatràn, David Konopnicki, Michel Schick and Pierre Wekstein

6pm – Musical entertainment with Jacinta, Michèle Tauber, Adrian Iordan and the Pletzl Bandit

Monday, October 21, 2024

Auditorium de l’INALCO

65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris

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Ashkenazi liturgical music

  • 9:30 am – Public welcome.
    9:45 am – Presentation of the day

The Ashkenazi rite, from its origins to the present day

  • 9.30 am – Jewish ritual and song in northern France in the Middle Ages, by Alexandre Cerveux
  • 10 am – Synagogal music in Paris at the time of the first consistorial temple (1822-1874), by Gérard Ganvert
  • 10:30 am – The consistorial rite – from the inauguration of the Grande Synagogue de La Victoire (1874) to the present day, by Hervé Roten

Bare-voice singing

  • 11:30 am – The Alsatian nusah, by Chana Englard
  • 12 am – Nusah – a system of systems, by Judit Frigyesi

—- Lunch break —-

Cantorial practices in different Ashkenazi rites

  • 2:30 – 3:30 pm – Round table with Jonathan Blum (Alsatian consistorial rite), Emmanuel Chaze (Paris consistorial rite), François Garaï (liberal rite) and Haïm Nissenbaum (Habbad hassidic rite)

The future of the Ashkenazi rite in France: transmission, learning and evolution

  • 4 pm – Round table discussion with Alexandre Cerveux (CJL), Bruno Fraitag (JEM Copernic), Hector Sabo (choir director in Strasbourg) and Emmanuelle Souffan (organist and choir director at the Parisian synagogue de la Victoire)

5 pm – Conclusion of the day and the colloquium

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Concert

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8pm – The great tunes of the Ashkenazi liturgical year

Concert at the rue Copernic synagogue – 24 rue Copernic, 75116 Paris

With the synagogue choir (conductor: Didier Seutin)

HOW TO REGISTER

COLLOQUIUM – Free admission – Registration required

CONCERT

The great tunes of the Ashkenazi liturgical year

at the Copernic synagogue on October 21, 2024 at 8pm

Fees: Members: €20 – Non-members: €30





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