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Klezmer Studies

Here is a new method in the teaching of klezmer clarinet. Or how to face the first technical difficulties with simple and melodic pieces, composed in the spirit of klezmer music? …

Musiques juives

See Jean-François Lévy's review “From Tradition to Contemporary Composition” published in Diasporiques on March 13, 2011, on the latest recordings in the Musical Heritage of French Jews collection …

Kol Nidré – 8 visions

Apart from the traditional Ashkenazi version of Kol Nidre played by Armand Benhamou and the Copernic Choral Ensemble, this CD offers seven other musical versions of the famous Yom Kippur prayer …

Serge Kaufmann – Ima ou la mère dépossédée (IMA OR THE DISPOSSESSED MOTHER)

Is it possible to write Jewish music without using one traditional theme? This is the bet taken, and won, by Serge Kaufmann, who gives us with this CD a work colored with strong Jewish accents …

Jacques Grober – Yiddish songs from yesterday and today

Jacques Grober, one of the few French authors, composers and performers to have renewed the repertoire of Yiddish song over the last thirty years, writes songs about our lives …

The teamim, signs to sing the Torah

by Jean-Philippe Amar, PhD in the University of Paris IV Sorbonne …

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 » …