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Re: Italian connections...
- From: Francesco Spagnolo <yuval.italia...>
- Subject: Re: Italian connections...
- Date: Thu 07 Feb 2002 16.55 (GMT)
Eliott,
thank you for signaling these sources for us!
What I intended in my posting was not that Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
hasn't written works related to Jewish themes, but that his
relationship with Italian-Jewish traditional music is not so evident.
In other words, I know of only a few works (such as the organ ones)
where he openly re-elaborates on Italian traditional tunes.
Francesco
>At 05:04 PM 2/5/02 +0100, Francesco Spagnolo wrote:
>>Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco ties with Italian Jewish music still need
>>to be explored. As far as I can understand (although there is a
>>book out that covers most of his work -- I have to check in our
>>archive), he set for organ music a few Italian synagogue pieces
>>(organ was widely used in Italy until WW2), as a hommage to his
>>family's heritage, which was Tuscan, hence a mixture of Italian and
>>Ashkenazi minhagim. I am not sure that his vocal pieces have
>>anything to do with Italian Jewish music, though.
>
>C-T composed a Friday evening service for New York's Park Avenue
>Synagogue in 1950. He also composed a Lecho Dodi in 1936 that
>received its premiere at Park Avenue ca. 1944. The Lecho Dodi (for
>cantor, chorus and organ) was published in the 1951 Schirmer
>anthology "Synagogue Music by Contemporary Composers." The service
>was never published. Both our library and the Library of
>Congress--who received C-T's papers in 2000--have ms. copies of the
>scores. Our copy of the score is part of our David Putterman/Park
>Avenue Synagogue Collection, which I recently finished arranging and
>cataloging.
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