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10/07/2014
Symposium and concerts Vox Aurea-Via Sacra 2014 – Sacred Jewish music
September 7, 2014, in Saint-Amand-Montrond. Many lectures followed by concerts on Jewish sacred song, in its biblical, synagogal or mystical traditions, through the great Ashkenazi traditions of Eastern and Western Europe, and the Sephardic traditions of the Maghreb countries …
29/06/2014
Music and cuisine of the Sephardi
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JULY 1, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Maurice Arrouasse, a caterer, radio host and a great expert of oriental songs, makes us discover in music the typical dishes of the Sephardic communities of the Maghreb …
04/06/2014
LECTURE “LOVE SONGS IN THE JEWISH TRADITION”
On June 12, 2014, a musical conference by Jacques Arnold, cantor, honorary rabbi and Hervé Roten, musicologist and director of the Institut Européen des Musiques Juives devoted to the scope of the text "The Song of Songs", as well as its resonance in different Jewish musical traditions …
04/06/2014
Dix mélodies (vol. 1), Cinq pièces pour piano by Fernand Halphen and Petit nocturne by Reynaldo Hahn
Publication of two musical scores by Fernand Halphen and an unpublished score for violin and piano by Reynaldo Hahn …
03/06/2014
Witler, Ben-Zion (1907-1961)
Ben-Zion Witler (or Ben-Tsion Vitler, or also BenZion Wittler), was born in 1907 in Belz, in Galicia, and died in 1961. He was a singer, but also an actor and …
07/05/2014
La Danse traditionnelle juive ashkénaze
In this book, the world's leading specialists in the traditonal dance of the former Yiddishland (Eastern Europe) describe this emblematic aspect of popular Ashkenazi Jewish culture …
06/05/2014
Lebas, Renée (1917-2009)
Born in Paris on April 23rd, 1917, Renée Lebas (born Leiba) lived with her parents, Romanian Jewish immigrants in France, and her younger sister in the Bastille neighborhood. At the …
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 …
04/05/2014
Music and cuisine of the Ashkenazi
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - MAY 6, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Arielle Sion, a connoisseur of Yiddish culture, reveals the secrets of Ashkenazi gastronomy through Yiddish song …
07/04/2014
Music and cuisine in the Jewish tradition
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY APRIL 8, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. In the Jewish tradition, food and music have a deep and ancient connection. In this first programme, Cantor Jacques Arnold will discuss the table songs of the Jewish holidays …