06/05/2014
Les Musigrains – A pedagogical institution (1939 – 1986)
Les Musigrains is a pedagogical and musical adventure lived in Parisian theaters. Thousands of young music lovers who attended more than 400 concerts performed by hundreds of musicians …
19/05/2013
Le Passant du pont de l’Europe : Charles-Valentin Alkan, entre tradition et modernité
A book written by Anny Kessous Dreyfuss who makes us discover Charles Valentin Alkan (1813-1888), composer, virtuoso, pedagogue, whose several works are related to Jewish tradition …
03/03/2013
Alexandre Tansman – Regards en arrière
The work and personality of Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) deserve to be better known, as it was so rich of experiences, and filled with touching people, famous or not. In Regards en arrière, a text written between 1954 and 1958, the composer comes back on his years of training in Poland, and career in France and USA …
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 …
11/02/2012
Cheikh Raymond – Une histoire algérienne
Raymond Leyris, aka Cheikh Raymond, had a French name, was Jewish and sang in Arabic. Born in Constantine in 1912, he was the undisputed master of Arab-Andalusian music. This book written by Bertrand Dicale is a big jump into the lost world of Algerian Judaism …
29/10/2011
Survivre et mourir en musique dans les camps nazis
From the first punitive camps of the IIIrd Reich to the death factories of Treblinka and Birkenau, passing by the prisoners of war camps, the author tells about the activities in the concentration camp universe …
04/09/2011
Le chant liturgique juif éthiopien
This book by Olivier Tourny, ethnomusicologist in the CNRS and former director of the French Research Center in Jerusalem, describes in a pedagogical way the fascinating musical tradition of Ethiopian Jews …
07/06/2011
Music in the Jewish community of Palestine 1880 – 1948 – A Social History
The thrilling story of a small community of immigrants and refugees who succeeded in establishing a musical life internationally renowned with the background of two world wars. A balance between a European heritage and an Eastern inspiration …
07/06/2011
Salamone Rossi – Jewish musician in late renaissance Mantua
The life and work of Salamone Rossi, Jewish composer from the 17th century who lived in the court of Duke Gonzague of Mantua …
14/04/2011
Jewish instrumental Folk Music
A reference work on Klezmer music, translated and edited by Mark Slobin, Robert Rothstein and Michael Alpert, including many music transcriptions and a CD …
