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Training of Music Teachers of Paris 2011

One day of training offering a wide panorama on the history of Jewish music with a conference hosted by Hervé Roten followed by a workshop of vocal and/or instrumental improvisation …

Tribute concert to Shalom Berlinski

On December 5, 2010 at ULIF Copernic synagogue, film concert in tribute to Shalom Berlinski (1918-208) who was the first cantor of the Grande Synagogue de la Victoire (Paris) from 1948 to 1979 …

Music from Passover seder – A journey into the musical traditions of Passover

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY APRIL 12 2011, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.The cantor and rabbi Jacques Arnold explains the meanings of the various prayers that are sung during the Passover celebration …

Klezmer music of yesterday and today

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MARCH 15, 2011, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Listen about the various ways to approach klezmer music today, with, avec Claude Zwimer, founder of the music label JUMU, Eléonore Biezunski, musician and sociologist of music, and Alexandre Litwak, creator and arranger of the band « Gefilte swing » …

A tribute concert to Shalom Berlinski

December 5, 2010 at 5:30pm at ULIF-Copernic. Concert in tribute to Shalom Berlinski (1918-2008), who was First Minister-Officer of the Grande Synagogue de la Victoire (Paris) from 1948 to 1979 …

Baroque Jewish music concert – Venice, Mantua, Amsterdam (1623-1774)

View three musical works by Salomone Rossi (ca 1570-ca 1630) and Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti (1730-after 1793) performed by the Texto Ensemble directed by David Klein, on April 14, 2010, at …

Variations ladino

This CD, performed by the virtuoso guitarist Liat Cohen, takes us on a musical journey composed of traditional Ladino melodies revisited by contemporary artists and composers …

Baroque Jewish music – Venice, Mantua, Amsterdam (1623 – 1774)

April 14, 2010, 8pm at the German Evangelical Church. Concert of Baroque Jewish music given on April 14, 2010 in tribute to musicologist Israel Adler (1925-2009). Works by Salomone Rossi, Abraham Caceres, Guiseppe Lidarti ("Ester" Oratorio) …

Lewandowski, Louis Lazarus (1821-1894)

Louis Lazarus Lewandowski was born in Wreschen (Poznan province) on April 3, 1821. He came from a poor Jewish family and his mother passed away when he was still very …

Halévy, Jacques François Fromental Élie (1799-1862)

It is in the synagogue that music composers like Fromental Halévy (1799-1862), Charles Valentin Alkan (1813-1888) and Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) received their first musical initiation. Elie Lévy (1760-1826), father of …