Re: Jewish Music Roundtable

[L_Cahan <L_Cahan...>]

Is there a way to post a synopsis of the speeches on the list or on a webiste
afterwards?  Wish I could be there.

Lorele


Judy Pinnolis wrote:

> MLA'ers:
> The Jewish Music Roundtable has an exciting and interesting series of
> speakers lined up this year for our Thursday morning roundtable at MLA in
> New York in February, scheduled for 11am. I'm excited about this
> extraordinary opportunity that only being in New York makes possible!!
>
> Here's what happening and I hope you can join us --Judy Pinnolis
>
> 1)Dr. Eliott Kahn,
> Music Archivist,
> Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America,
> New York City.
> Dr. Kahn's talk is entitled: "Archival Resources for Jewish Liturgical
> Music in the New York Metro Area."  Dr. Kahn will speak about the music
> archival collections at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Hebrew Union
> College School of Sacred Music, and several other major synagogue and
> instiutional collections in the NYC area.
>
> 2) Ryna Kedar, Head, Acquisitions and Cataloging Division
> The Felicja Blumental Music Center and Library
> Tel Aviv, Israel will speak about the "Special Collections in
> The Felicja Blumental Music Center and Library, Tel Aviv, Israel".
>
> Ms. Kedar has volunteered to fly in from Israel to talk to our MLA group!
> She will speak about the special collections of Hebrew, Yiddish and other
> Jewish materials and give an overview of the collections in her library in
> Tel Aviv. She will speak about the Archive, including the Hubermann,
> Stutschewsky and Ravina collections.
>
> 3)Mr. Lorin Sklamberg, Sound Archivist,
> YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NYC.
> Mr. Sklamberg, famous internationally as vocalist and performer in the
> "Klezmatics" klezmer band, (current album: "The Well" with Chava
> Alberstein), is also a sound archivist. He will give us "An Introduction to
> the Archives of The YIVO Institute Music Collections, New York City". The
> treasures of the YIVO Institute respresent one of the most significant
> Jewish music collections world wide.  Mr. Sklamberg will speak about
> musical field recordings such as those of Ruth Rubin or the Weinreich
> Yiddish Dialect Project for spoken speech. He will discuss how the YIVO
> archive is being utilized by current day active musicians and will bring a
> small exhibit of artifacts from the YIVO Institute for display.
>
> Judith S. Pinnolis
> Reference Librarian
> Coordinator for Publications and Training
> Brandeis University Libraries
> Goldfarb Library MS045
> P.O Box 549110
> Waltham, MA 02454-9110
> phone:781-736-4705
> fax: 781-736-4719
> email: pinnolis (at) brandeis(dot)edu
>

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