Re: Composing on Jewish themes

[Steve Weintraub <dancinsteve...>]

One pops immediately to mind:
Prokofiev-Overture on Hebrew themes

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Cohen" <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: Composing on Jewish themes


> >-this tells, again and again about the hate/love relationship between
> > >German and Jews. The mutual fascination/repulsion thing... A German
> > >composer writting on a Jewish theme (Ravel did the same, and so did
> > >Shostakovitch, and who else?)
>
>
> Prokofiev, for one, and many others.  Only w/ Prokofiev it was a love/love
> thing--a real philo-Semite.
>
> --Robert Cohen
>
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