21/12/2015
Klezmer’s Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany
Klezmer in Europe has been a controversial topic ever since this traditional Jewish wedding music made it to the concert halls and discos of Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest and Prague. Played mostly by non-Jews and for non-Jews, it was hailed as "fakelore," "Jewish Disneyland" and even "cultural necrophilia." …
14/12/2015
Ignaz Moscheles and the Changing World of Musical Europe
The first full-length study devoted to Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870), pianist, conductor and composer …
14/12/2015
La fanfare de Bangui
It starts like an adventure's novel : a phone call from the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs offers, in 1963, to a horn player from the radio's symphonic orchestra, to leave for the Central African republic, as part of a cooperation program : the president of Central Africa wants a brass band …
09/12/2015
The Maurice Arrouasse Collection
The archives deposited by Maurice Arrouasse, big collector of Oriental music, gather more than 300 audio documents on various medias, from 78 RPM discs to Cd's …
30/11/2015
The Dave Cash Collection
Representing approximately 200 documents, the Dave Cash (Louis/Ludwig Slomniker) Collection takes us into the musical atmosphere of the post-war Yiddish cabarets …
26/11/2015
Wagner antisemite
Can the greatness of one of the most remarkable musicians of the Western world excuse some positions among the worse that can be ? And moreover : can it justify that we ignore them ? …
26/11/2015
Myriam Fuks – Ver bin ikh !
A new CD of Yiddish songs by Myriam Fuks, surrounded with exceptional musicians …
23/11/2015
The Collection Jacques Chalude, aka Ben Baruch
This collection gathers discs, sheet music and varied archives (photographies, posters...) tracing back the life and work of Jacques Chalude (1914-1997), who was at first a Yiddish singer known as "Ben Baruch", before becoming a cantor in the synagogue of Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth (Paris) …
19/11/2015
Three centuries ago – Polina Shepherd
Originary from Kazan in Tatarstan, Polina Shepherd was part of the forerunners of the Yiddish music revival in Soviet Union since the 1990’s …
18/11/2015
Aheym homeward – Sklamberg & the Shepherds
A beautiful album featuring original compositions in Yiddish, with world known artists: With Lorin Sklamberg (vocals, accordion, piano), Polina Shepherd (vocals, piano) and Merlin Shepherd (clarinet) …
