New radio show in Italy plays international Jewish melodies

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

I just found this on the web.   Francesco has been holding out on us on 
this good news.  

The next step is to get this program on the Internet.  Very important.

I am reproducing only the first few lines of this article below in the 
hope that copyright issues are not raised.   You can go there yourself 
and read the rest of this article.

BTW, I also found this piece of news at http://www.klezmer.co.uk/register.htm

>First Italian Centre for the study of Klezmer music was launched in 
>the summer.  Yuval Italia, is an institute located in Milan and run 
>in collaboration with the Jewish Music research centre of the Hebrew 
>University.


 
Reyzl 



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New radio show in Italy plays international Jewish melodies
    By Ruth E. Gruber 

MILAN, Italy, June 22 (JTA) -- Francesco Spagnolo was selecting music 
for his prime-time program on Radio Popolare, one of Italy's foremost 
independent radio stations. 

    ``I want the show this week to be about ghettos,'' the bearded 
28-year-old said. 

    He considered the possibilities. 

    Classical music that was composed in the World War II ghetto of 
Theresienstadt. Baroque music by the 17th-century Italian Jewish 
composer Salamone Rossi, who lived and worked in Mantua at a time 
when Jews there were confined to a ghetto. 

    A track by the Jewish rappers The Beastie Boys. A song about the 
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by the South African rock group Johnny Clegg 
and Savuka. 

    Maybe a piece by the Yiddish bard Mordechai Gebirtig, who was 
killed by the Nazis in Poland. 

    Spagnolo's weekly, hourlong show, ``Yuval: Jewish Music and 
Cultures,'' which was launched in March, is the only regular Jewish 
music program on Italian radio. 

    Broadcast Sunday evenings on a station that reaches most of 
northern Italy as well as other parts of the country, the program 
showcases a wide variety of Jewish music, from classical to klezmer, 
and includes interviews with Jewish cultural figures and discussions 
of Jewish traditions.... 
                                                                      
                    
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