RE: Wedding music?

[yoel epstein <yoel...>]

I believe (but am not certain) that I have seen Rossi's trio sonatas published 
by Ricordi.  They are scored for two violins and basso continuo, usually played 
on a cello with harpsichord or cembalo filling in the figured bass.  You might 
try Franks Music Store in Manhattan, which carries a lot of classical music of 
Jewish interest.

There are a number of other Jewish composers from that era, but I have never 
seen any of their music published nor heard it played.  If your friend is 
interested in more modern music, there is, of course, a wealth of material, 
including chamber pieces by Bloch, Milhaud, Castelnuevo-Tedesco, and others, of 
specifically Jewish content.  But antique instruments would not be appropriate 
for playing these works.

Yoel Epstein

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From:   the Cheshire Cat[SMTP:alanacat (at) wam(dot)umd(dot)edu]
Sent:   éåí ùéùé 21 ðåáîáø 1997 13:56
To:     World music from a Jewish slant.
Subject:        Wedding music?

A freind of mine called me with a very complicated story about a friend of
*hers* getting married - the upshot of the story was that she wanted some
information about Jewish music pieces, leaning toward the classical, and
the only person she could find of any interest was Solomon Rossi. She
intends to have instruments appropriate to the 16th century at the wedding
and wants *sheet music* (i.e. she needs to know a composer, an appropriate
piece, and where to get the sheet music)
The only piece that she found was a piece called something like "Lemi
Ehpoz" although heaven knows how many translations it's gone through until
I got it. Anyone with info on this would be gratefully thanked, and
probably slobbered over with gratitude.

Alana Suskin

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