Re: Classical Music with Jewish Reference?

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

I just received news on Horneman's Esther.

"Regrettably it is not [based on the Biblical Esther].  The Esther in
Horneman's work is to be found in a melodramatic Danish novella from the
late nineteenth century.        Best regards from BIS,  William Jewson

Bob Wiener

From: robert wiener <wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Monday, December 14, 1998 8:11 AM
Subject: Classical Music with Jewish Reference?


>A number of classical music records released within the last year may have
>references to Jewish texts or events, but I am not certain. Can any one
help
>me ascertain the degree (if any) of Jewish content in the following?
>
>Britten: String Quartet #2
>(post-Holocaust, apparently influenced by the concentration camps)
>
>Feldman, Barbara Monk: The I and Thou
>(Buber reference?)
>
>Gretchaninov: Liturgia Domestica
>(possibly based in part on Hebrew texts)
>
>Gruber: Gomorrah
>(Biblical?)
>
>Hindemith: Sancta Susanna
>(Apocryphal?)
>
>Horneman: Esther
>(Megillat Esther?)
>
>Kabelac: Fated Dramas of Man
>(Biblical reference?)
>
>Keal, Minna: Cantillation for Violin and Orchestra, Op.4
>(Jewish cantillation?)
>
>Markevitch: Psaume
>(Tehilim?)
>
>Rore: Sacred and Secular Motets
>(any Biblical texts?)
>
>Rosenfeld: Kniefall in Warschaw (Atonement in Warsaw)
>(any explicit Jewish reference to the Warsaw ghetto, literal or musical?)
>
>Zorn, John: Aporias - Requia
>(Biblical text?)
>
>
>Chag Hachanukah Sameach
>Bob Wiener
>