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Concert : discovering forgotten composers

On January 13th, 2019 at 5 PM at the Pan Piper in Paris (75011), concert around forgotten composers, with in particular works unknown to the public, but also Tchaïkovski's Serenade. …

Music and politics in the IIIrd Reich Germany at the eve of the Cold War

Published in 2018 at the Presses universitaires of Paris-Sorbonne, this book by Elise Petit presents an original analysis of musical politics in Germany between 1933 and 1949. …

Music in Germany from 1933 to 1949

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY JANUARY 15, 2019, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8). On the occasion of the day of remembrance of the Holocaust which is approaching, Hervé Roten invites the musicologist Elise Petit, specialist of the musical politics in Germany before, during and after the second world war …

Ledor Vador : Jacques Fromental Halévy and his contemporary Giacomo Meyerbeer

Program hosted by Hector Sabo, broadcasted on Radio Judaïca Strasbourg in 2017. …

The hora

A dance from the pioneers, which is today emblematic of bar-mitsvas, weddings and other Jewish celebrations of the diaspora. Originally, the hora was a slow dance often practiced in Romania, by Jews and non-Jews. At the start of the 20th century, it arrived in Palestine where it was transformed into a collective and joyous circle dance, quickly becoming the emblematic dance of the first kibbutzniks. …

Rock, hard-rock, metal, punk and Jewish music

At first, they look like very different musical styles, but when you look deeper, you can find several similarities which can allow fusion, and even a “transe-fusion”… …

Punk Rock Hora : Adventures in Jew-Punk land

Published in 2018 in USA, the book Punk Rock Hora : Adventures in Jew-Punk land talks about the musicians who combine punk-rock and judaism, be it at a cultural, identity, musical aspect, or the three at the same time …

The hora in music

Special Israeli hora …

Ledor Vador : Jacques Fromental Halévy, pioneer of hebraic musical romanticism

Program hosted by Hector Sabo, broadcasted on Radio Judaïca Strasbourg in 2017. …

Enchanted Jewish Culture : Mahzor Hayim

Hosted by Hélène Engel, broadcasted on Radio CJRS Montreal, dedicated to the album Mahzor Hayim by Itaï Daniel published in 2018 by the EIJM publishing house …