Radio programs from the EIJM
03/04/2018
Alberto Hemsi : the Bela Bartok of Judeo-Spanish music
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - April 10, 2018, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.
Ketty Menasce-Hemsi evokes the memory and the Judeo-Spanish work of her father, the composer Alberto Hemsi (1898-1975) …
20/03/2018
Jewish singers from Tunisia
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY APRIL 9, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. A l’occasion de la publication du CD « Chanteurs juifs de Tunisie », Michel Lévy et Hervé Roten évoquent l'histoire des chanteurs juifs de Tunisie …
31/01/2018
Cinema, music and judaism
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - FEBRUARY 13, 2018, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.
Hervé Roten invites the violonist Isabelle Durin for the release of Mémoire et Cinéma, a CD of the most beautiful Jewish-themed movie music …
09/01/2018
Staïffi, the king of Eastern cha-cha-cha
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - JANUARY 16, 2018, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. At the turn of the 1960's, the French-oriental song was in fashion. The cabaret Le soleil d'Algérie welcomed many artists. Among them Staïffi, whose song Cherie je t'aime, chérie je t'adore would become a world hit …
18/12/2017
Confluence{s} : the encounter of Jewish and French melodies
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – DECEMBER 19, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the encounter between French melody and Jewish music, whether popular or religious, produced works of rare intensity: Ravel and his Kaddish, but also Darius Milhaud and his Jewish poems, Paul Martineau and his Quatre mélodies hébraïques or Elsa Barraine and her Quatre chants juifs …
16/11/2017
Vienna – Paris – Hollywood : songs of exile
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Radio program dedicated to stage music written by Jewish exiled composers from Vienna and Germany (Weill, Glanzberg, Hollaender, Korngold…) in Paris and Hollywood after the growth of Nazism …
26/10/2017
Jewish music in the 20th century for cello and piano
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY OCTOBER 24, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.
Radio program dedicated to the music for cello and piano, written by composers of the 20th century (Achron, Bloch, Saminsky, Klein, Weinberg, Warshawski, Kaufmann…) in search of their Jewish roots …
21/09/2017
Denis Cuniot, the inventor of the klezmer piano
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – September 26, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.
Denis Cuniot is one of the main initiators of the revival of French klezmer music. To date, he has released nearly twenty recordings, in solo, duo, trio or ensemble (notably with the Orient Express Moving Shnorers, which he co-founded in 1995 with Philippe Briegh) …
01/07/2017
Hidden sides of Hélène Engel, author, composer and performer of Jewish music.
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – JULY 4, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. The singer Hélène Engel has been involved in the revival of Jewish music in France since the early 1980s. A contemporary of Jacques Grober, Rosalie Becker, Violette Szmajer, Michèle Tauber and Meredith, she sings in Yiddish, Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, French and English, and has recorded 5 CDs to date …
02/06/2017
Singing La Victoire
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JUNE 6, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Radio show dedicated to the music of the Great synagogue la Victoire (Paris). With Jacques Canet and Jean-Marc Thoron, president and chief conductor of la Victoire …