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Re: Italian connections...



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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