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Azafea : a Spanish odyssey into the heart of Sefardi music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. A musical odyssey into the heart of Sephardic music, with Nadav Lev (guitar), Rémy Yulzari (double bass), Frank London (trumpet) and John Hadfield (percussion) …

Azafea – A Spanish Odyssey

This second volume of the "Discoveries" collection takes us beyond the seas, in the footsteps of the Sephardic Jews who preserved the Spanish musical heritage, while adapting it to the music of the different countries in which they settled …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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Publication of two musical scores by Fernand Halphen and an unpublished score for violin and piano by Reynaldo Hahn …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …