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12/04/2011
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 …
14/03/2011
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 » …
05/12/2010
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 …
20/05/2010
Baroque Jewish music concert – Venice, Mantua, Amsterdam (1623-1774)
Watch the concert: Baroque Jewish Music – Venice, Mantua, Amsterdam (1623-1774), featuring works by Salomone Rossi (ca 1570-ca 1630) and Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti (1730-after 1793) performed by the Texto Ensemble …
01/04/2010
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 …
31/03/2010
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) …
30/03/2010
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 …
30/03/2010
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 …
30/03/2010
David, Samuel (1836-1895)
Born in Paris on November 12th 1836, Samuel David was admitted at a very young age into the music conservatory, where at the age of 13 he won a first …
30/03/2010
Algazi, Léon (1890-1971)
This article is dedicated to the memory of Jacques Algazi, who passed away on March 1, 2021, 50 years to the day after his father's death, and to Béatrice Algazi, his daughter, who kindly provided many of the elements used to write this tribute …