VIIth Summer University of the Institut Maïmonide – Montpellier

From King David to Darius Milhaud, the long history of Jewish music

JULY 5 TO 12, 2012 – ESPACE CULTUEL HEBRAIQUE MEDIEVAL DE L’INSTITUT MAIMONIDE

PROGRAM

Thursday, July 5, 2012, 8 p.m.
Don Profiat Room – Espace cultuel hébraïque médiéval – Institut Maïmonide
“Jewish music and liturgy – from the psalms of David to the sacred service of Darius Milhaud”
by Hervé ROTEN, ethnomusicologist, Director of the French Center for Jewish Music

Monday, July 9, 2012, 8pm
Medieval Mikvé – Medieval Hebrew worship space – Institut Maïmonide
“Sephardic itinerancy”
by Suzana AZQUINEZER, storyteller

Thursday, July 12, 2012, 6:30 p.m.
Don Profiat Room – Medieval Hebrew Cultural Center – Maimonides Institute
“I’m a Frenchman from Provence of the Israelite religion…
Darius Milhaud, a twentieth-century French composer”.
by Michaël IANCU, historian

followed by a concert of Jewish music by Sarah Iancu, cellist

Maimonides_Summer University program 2012

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