Eleanor Shapiro: Jewish Music Matters
- Pacific Time Virtual Program
Eleanor Shapiro: Jewish Music Matters
Music offers a unique means of engaging emotion and spirituality, social solidarity, and cultural affirmation. It also demonstrates the mutual influences experienced by cultures living in proximity to one another over time. Spread throughout the world over two millennia, Jewish music has evolved into myriad traditions as well as innovative creative forms. This four-session series will explore highlights of this rich musical legacy, focusing on the modern era.
4 sessions: Sundays, April 24, May 1, 15, 22 @ 11am-12:30 pm. Virtual on Zoom
April 24: What is Jewish Music?
Overview of Jewish Music in Time and Space
Jewish Music in Memory of the Holocaust (Yom HaShoah April 27)
Video: https://youtu.be/XCSdzNvvvKY
May 1: Pre-Modern to Early Modern
Liturgy: Cantillation, piyyutim, baqashot
Ladino romanceros, coplas, and cantingas
Salamone Rossi / Benedetto Marcello
Hasidism as a Response to Modernity
Video: https://youtu.be/02IHFuJ6vgM
May 15: Modern (Late 18th c – 20th c)
Western and Eastern Art Music (Mendelsohn), (Jewish musicians in the Arab world)
Professionalization of cantorate (Sulzer)
St. Petersburg School (Joel Engel)
Diaspora (An-Ski, Beregovski) / Israel (idelsohn)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyOqMMQgrWw
May 22 Modern – Post Modern
Popular Culture / Mass Media: Print, Theater, Sheet Music, Recordings, Radio, Film
Klezmer Revival
Israeli music
Globalization / Social Media
