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03/03/2013
Tansman, Alexandre (1897-1986)
Born in Łódź, the 11th of June 1897, in a Jewish bourgeois family, cultivated and music loving, Alexandre Tansman started composing music at a very young age « in the …
03/03/2013
The Jewish work of Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986)
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MARCH 12, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. With Mireille Tansman Zanuttini (daughter of the composer) and the musicologist Cédric Segond-Genovesi, on the occasion of the release of Alexandre Tansman's memoirs published by the Editions Aedam Musicae …
17/02/2013
Heymann, Michel (1952)
Born on April 25, 1952 in Strasburg, he was the last pupil, before it closed definitely, of the Hazan’s School in Paris, but he was also, and most of all, …
17/02/2013
Liturgie juive traditionnelle
The cantor Michel Heymann donated all his recordings to the European Institute of Jewish Music in the beginning of 2013. This CD makes us hear the great tunes of the Ashkenazi traditional Jewish liturgy from Alsace and Lorraine …
17/02/2013
Michel Heymann – Liturgie juive achkenaze traditionnelle
This recording presents the main prayers of Rosh Hashana’s morning service, sung in the Ashkenazi rite of the East of France. The cantor Michel Heymann gave, in the beginning of …
07/02/2013
Purim or Esther’s holiday in music
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8). This radio program, commented and supervised by the cantor and Rabbi Jacques Arnold, offers an unprecedented musical vision of the festival of Purim: readings of the Megillat Esther in different traditions to popular and children's songs, from Purim-Shpil to art music - such as Esther's oratorio (1774) of Lidarti …
09/01/2013
Fuld, Léo (1912-1997)
Leo Fuld was one of the last popular Yiddish singers. His career started long before World War II and ended when he died in 1997. Before the Second World War, …
09/01/2013
The Jews from Iran and their music
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JANUARY 15, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Disovering Jewish music from Iran, with Alain Chaoulli, author of a PhD on the Jewish musicians in Iran in the 19th and 20th centuries, and their contribution to the safeguard of the Iranian musical heritage …
27/11/2012
Les Juifs d’Iran à travers leurs musiciens
In Iran the Jewish people had a special fate, a long history, which lasted more than 2 700 years in this country. The Jews from Iran liked and played the same music as the other people from Iran, and with the same pleasure. They appropriated the modes of Persian music in their religious chants …
26/11/2012
Ciao Habiba !
A few months after the Tunisian Revolution, a filmmaker comes back to her native country. She looks for a Tunisian diva, Habiba Messika, a woman too free, a singer, actress, burned by at the end of the 1930’s by one of her many lovers …