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04/03/2015
Treasures of Yiddish archives (part 1)
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JANUARY 12, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Between 1911 and 1914, the Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society, founded in St. Petersburg in 1908, organized an ethnographic expedition that recorded about 500 cylinders containing nearly a thousand songs …
15/02/2015
La source de vie : At the time of the minstrels
A TV program hosted by Josy Eisenberg, directed by Pascale Kenigsberg-Cahen, with the participation of the Od Yossef Haï Foundation. Featuring an excerpt of the concert “Jews and trouvères” performed …
10/02/2015
Treasures of Yiddish archives (part 2)
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2015, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Using numerous musical examples, the second part of this program allows us to understand how today's artists use Yiddish musical archives to make their own creations …
02/02/2015
Halphen, Fernand (1872-1917)
Fernand Halphen was born in 1872 and died for France in 1917. A pupil of Gabriel Fauré and Jules Massenet, he won the second Prix de Rome in 1896. Halphen was the author of over a hundred major works, including melodies, symphonies, sonatas, and pieces for the violin, cello, piano, and horn …
02/02/2015
Halphen, Alice (1878-1963)
Influenced by the Dreyfus affair in her youth, Alice Halphen, born Koenigswarter and wife of Fernand Halphen, had a lifelong interest in Judaism. An enlightened art lover, she ran a popular music salon frequented by many musicians …
02/02/2015
Salim Halali
Released by Buda Musique in 2012, this CD dedicated to Salim Halali, born in 1920 in Annaba (Ex-Bône) in Algeria, testifies of Judeo-North African songs from the 1940’s until 1965 …
21/12/2014
Yiddishe Fantazye
This authentic record takes us deep into the universe of Eastern European Jewish music, long before the accordion and the clarinet became inseparable from klezmer music …
11/12/2014
Cordoue 21
Six evocative ballads - from Granada to Cordoba, passing through the Balkans, Salonica, Istanbul and even Tunis, Algiers and Paris - construct this album, with the voice of Sandra Bessis, recognized singer of the Sefardi repertoire for more than 25 years, and the voice of Rachid Brahim-Djelloul. …
11/12/2014
Irving Berlin
A musical score collection featuring the most popular songs from the American composer Irving Berlin (1888-1989) …
11/12/2014
Barry Sisters
(From left to right: Claire and Myrna Barry) Myrna and Clara were born in the Bronx, New York, to Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Herman and Ester, respectively from Russia and Austria, …