Re: Who was Isaac Nathan? (fwd)

[I. Oppenheim <i.oppenheim...>]

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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:15:40 +0000
From: Victor Tunkel <V(dot)Tunkel (at) qmul(dot)ac(dot)uk>
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Subject: Re: [jewishshulmusic] Re: Who was Isaac Nathan? (fwd)

> From a recent listing of a first edition of the work below, etc., as
> shown.

*To the above very helpful biog, may I add some updates for anyone
interested?  Recent publications include:

1. a complete facsimile reprint of all the editions of The Hebrew Melodies
with full intro and commentary, by Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass,
published by University of Alabama Press 1988.  0 8173 0373 1

2.  Byron's Hebrew Melodies by Thomas L. Ashton Routledge & Keegan Paul
 London 1972 0 7100 7173 6 a study of the whole project and its history.

3. The Hebrew Melodist:  A Life of Isaac Nathan "Father of Australian
Music" [sic] by Catherine Mackerras Sydney 1963.  The author is mother of
the eminent English orchestral conductor Sir Charles Mackerras, who is
Nathan's great-great-great-grandson.

Victor Tunkel

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