Symposium and concert

[D(dot)Katz (at) kunst(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de <D.Katz...>]

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I am pleased to announce the following symposium and concert
        Rabbiner Daniel Katz
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"Vom Klang des Sabbats"--The Sound of the Sabbath: The Jewish Dimension in
European Music.

1. Symposium 
        Dr. Dieter Adelmann (Bonn). Does 19th-century synagogal choral
music have a philosophical significance?
        Prof. Dr. Eliyahu Schleifer (Jerusalem). Notable features of the
European synagogal choral tradition.
        Rabbiner Dr. Daniel Katz (Frankfurt am Main). Biblical
cantillation: the Jewish art of reading Scripture.

2. Concert
        Rabbiner Zev Gotthold (Jerusalem), introduction
        Prof. Eliyahu Schleifer (Jerusalem), Kantor
        Members of the Philharmoic Choir of Siegen, conducted by Herbert
Ermert

        The concert offers Professor Schleifer's reconstruction of a
festive Friday evening service for cantor and choir from 19th-century
Vienna. The music comes from the publications of Cantor Solomon Sulzer
(1804-1890), the first "modern" synagogue composer. In Sulzer's time the
synagogue was considered one of the main musical attractions in Vienna;
many famous musicians, including Franz Liszt, have described their
experiences as visitors there.

        Other composers who contributed to Sulzer's Viennese liturgy and
whose music will be performed are Ignaz Xaver Ritter von Seyfried, student
of Haydn and Mozart; the pianist Joseph Fischhoff; and Franz Schubert. The
concert will follow as much as possible Eric Werner's edition in
Denkmaeler der Tonkunst in Oesterreich (v.134). This reconstruction was
performed twice in Israel in 1996 and is now being offered for the first
time in Germany.

        The second half of the concert consists of selections from
Louis Lewandowski's (1824-1891) settings of the Yom Kippur liturgy.
Lewandowski was choir director and synagogue composer in Berlin. His
synagogue on Oranienburger Street is one of the landmarks of Berlin; today
the site houses a museum and an egalitarian minyan. Lewandowski and the 
synagogue are depicted on two of the last postage stamps issued by the
communist East German government. His music is heard every week during
Shabbat services on the other side of Berlin at the Pestalozzi Street
Synagogue.


Thursday June 1, 2000: Symposium 15:30, Concert 20:00.
"Philanthropin," Hebelstr. 15-19, Frankfurt-Nordend (U 5 Musterschule)  

for further information:
http//:www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/fb6a/mbuber/klang
Tel. +49 69 798 24993; fax -24985
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