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30/09/2014
Jews and Trouvères
This record brings back to life, for the greatest joy of our ears and hearts, a world that disappeared after the final expulsion of the Jews from France in 1394 …
18/09/2014
Le bled
In this mute movie, Jean Renoir evokes Algeria in the times of colonization, with a love story. …
18/09/2014
Ben Zimet – Un enfant de la Corrèze
The CD of the last public appearance show by Ben Zimet with the Yiddish Quartet traces the childhood of the singer during and after the war, and maintains the memory of those who disappeared …
17/09/2014
Azafea : a Spanish odyssey into the heart of Sefardi music
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. A musical odyssey into the heart of Sephardic music, with Nadav Lev (guitar), Rémy Yulzari (double bass), Frank London (trumpet) and John Hadfield (percussion) …
10/07/2014
Azafea – A Spanish Odyssey
This second volume of the "Discoveries" collection takes us beyond the seas, in the footsteps of the Sephardic Jews who preserved the Spanish musical heritage, while adapting it to the music of the different countries in which they settled …
10/07/2014
Symposium and concerts Vox Aurea-Via Sacra 2014 – Sacred Jewish music
September 7, 2014, in Saint-Amand-Montrond. Many lectures followed by concerts on Jewish sacred song, in its biblical, synagogal or mystical traditions, through the great Ashkenazi traditions of Eastern and Western Europe, and the Sephardic traditions of the Maghreb countries …
29/06/2014
Music and cuisine of the Sephardi
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JULY 1, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Maurice Arrouasse, a caterer, radio host and a great expert of oriental songs, makes us discover in music the typical dishes of the Sephardic communities of the Maghreb …
04/06/2014
LECTURE “LOVE SONGS IN THE JEWISH TRADITION”
On June 12, 2014, a musical conference by Jacques Arnold, cantor, honorary rabbi and Hervé Roten, musicologist and director of the Institut Européen des Musiques Juives devoted to the scope of the text "The Song of Songs", as well as its resonance in different Jewish musical traditions …
04/06/2014
Dix mélodies (vol. 1), Cinq pièces pour piano by Fernand Halphen and Petit nocturne by Reynaldo Hahn
Publication of two musical scores by Fernand Halphen and an unpublished score for violin and piano by Reynaldo Hahn …
03/06/2014
Witler, Ben-Zion (1907-1961)
Ben-Zion Witler (or Ben-Tsion Vitler, or also BenZion Wittler), was born in 1907 in Belz, in Galicia, and died in 1961. He was a singer, but also an actor and …