Bloch! Bruch?

[Dan Kazez <kazez...>]

A recent poster wrote:

   >Aren't many of these compositions by non-Jews "based" on Jewish themes?  
   >Seems to me these composers often heard a tune they liked and simple 
   >expanded on it for their composition...or maybe they tried to evoke a 
   >Jewish "flavor" through an entirely original composition, much the way 
   >Bizet tried to evoke Spain in Carmen.

In a search for "Jewish music," this makes me a little nervous.  I eagerly 
accept Bloch--a Jewish composer whose entire life's work was devoted to the 
mastery of Jewish musical elements.  As a performer of classical music 
inspired by Judaism (often for primarily Jewish audiences), I am a little wary 
of programming purportedly "Jewish music" by composers who might slip in a 
Jewish melody or who might compose in minor with a few extra Augmented 2nds 
(e.g. in C minor, A flat to B natural or E flat to F sharp).

Dan

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