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16/05/2017
Concert “Mélodies hébraïques, un rêve vieux de 3000 ans” (“Hebrew melodies, a 3000-year-old dream”)
June 19, 2017 at 8:30pm at the Archives nationales in Paris (75003). In the footsteps of composers who draw their inspiration from Hasidic, Yiddish or Judeo-Spanish melodies. Sarah Iancu on cello and David Bismuth on piano …
11/05/2017
Lag Ba’Omer
Lag Ba’Omer (33rd day of the Omer) is a minor holiday of the Jewish calendar celebrated on the 18th of Iyyar, between Passover and Shavuot. …
10/05/2017
Yiddish music in Parisian cabarets after WWII
A filmed conference, presented by Hervé Roten and David Winter, as part of the first edition of "Campus en musique" organized by the Medem-Arbeter Ring …
10/05/2017
Jewish Music in Paris in the Aftermath of WWII, Elesdisc 1948-1953
Publication in the "Archives" collection of an anthology of 6 CDs of post-war Yiddish cabaret music, based on recordings published by the Elesdisc label between 1948 and 1953, entirely remastered! …
06/05/2017
Hidden sides of Jewish music : the 1st of May celebration of the workers
Hosted by Hélène Engel, dedicated to the 1st of May, broadcasted on Radio Shalom Montreal in 2012. …
06/05/2017
Concert Kol Nidre – New visions
Sunday May 21st 2017, 6 pm: Concert at ULIF- Copernic (20 musicians, 30 chorists) performing 12 musical versions of the Kol Nidre, of which 4 world and european creations …
01/05/2017
Potock, Bernard
We know very little about Bernard Potock. Beginning in 1938, he played the trumpet in Stanislaw Laudan’s jazz orchestra “Banda” in Krakow, Poland.He spent the Second World War in the …
01/05/2017
Gerro, Henri (approx. 1919-1980)
Henri Gerro (Roizman) was born on August 31, 1919 in Rovno (Volhynia Province), nowadays in Ukraine. He began performing on the Polish stage at the age of 12. After the …
01/05/2017
The Jean Bécache Collection
Rare document collection containing old manuscript scores, original or liturgical compositions from Algeria, audio cassettes and writings on Arabic music theory …