FYI: Conference on Jewish Music at Yale

[Judith Pinnolis <pinnolis...>]

Sending along this announcement. Looks like a great conference for those in
the New England area to attend.

Judy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nanette Stahl" <nanette(dot)stahl (at) yale(dot)edu>
To: <info (at) jewishmusic(dot)com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 4:00 PM
Subject: Conference on Jewish Music at Yale


> CONTACT: Nanette Stahl  203-432-1325
> For Immediate Release: March 12, 2003
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> Celebrating Jewish Music at Yale
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> New Haven, Conn.  Yale University will host a conference on April 12 and
13, celebrating the acquisition of a major collection of Jewish music by the
University.
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> The Wallersteiner Collection of Jewish Music includes about 700 pieces of
sheet music of popular, liturgical and theater songs and hymns from Germany,
the United States, Israel and elsewhere from the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. The collection was acquired by the Irving S. Gilmore Music
Library at Yale.
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> The acquisition of the collection has transformed Yale's Music Library
into a significant resource for scholarship in Jewish music.  Says Kendall
Crilly, Andrew W. Mellon Music Librarian, "We are absolutely delighted that
we had the opportunity to acquire the Wallersteiner Collection. The
collection has enabled us to add research materials of interest and depth in
a subject area that until recently had not been one of our traditional
collecting strengths, and it has served as the impetus for additional
acquisitions in the field of Jewish music. The upcoming conference presents
a wonderful opportunity to consider the many aspects of Jewish music, and to
hear for the first time some of the selections included in the Wallersteiner
Collection."
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> The conference will open with a concert at 8:30 p.m. on April 12 by the
renowned klezmer music band, Brave Old World, which plays both traditional
and provocative new Yiddish songs on subjects like Chernobyl and the fall of
the Berlin Wall. The concert will take place at the Trinity Lutheran Church,
292 Orange St. (corner of Wall Street) and is free and open to the public.
The band brings together four pioneering virtuosi of the klezmer scene.
Vocalist and violinist Michael Alpert, renowned for his native Yiddish and
soulful lyricism, is "the only klezmer artist writing Yiddish songs on
contemporary topics," according to Newsday.  Musical Director Alan Bern,
Christian Dawid on the clarinet, and Stuart Brotman on bass, percussion and
cimbalom complete the ensemble.
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> The conference will continue on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. at the Whitney
Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., with a session titled "Jewish Theater
Music." Mark Slobin of Wesleyan University will speak on early
JewishAmerican popular songs; Hankus Netsky of the New England Conservatory
will discuss Philadelphia's Jewish musicians; and Rachel Bergman of Yale
will speak on the composer Viktor Ullmann, who wrote "The Kaiser from
Atlantis" while interned in a Nazi concentration camp.   The next session,
at 12:30 p.m., focuses on sacred music. Jeffrey Summit of Tufts University
will discuss the music of the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda. Mark Kligman of
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion will address Sephardic
liturgy and Judit Frigyesi of Bar Ilan University in Israel will discuss
East European liturgical music.
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> This session will be followed by a concert of music from the Wallersteiner
Collection, performed by students from the Yale Music Department, 2:30-3:30
p.m.
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> The last session, "Community and Celebration," will begin at 3:30 p.m.
with a presentation titled "Bringing the Bride to Tears," by Craig Harwood
of Yale.  Kay Kaufman Shelemay of Harvard will speak on "Jewish Communities
through Music" and Edwin Seroussi of the Hebrew University in Israel will
discuss "The Modern Odyssey of the Judeo-Spanish Song."
> The conference will close with a concert performed by the chamber music
quartet, Antares, of music by Yale composers, beginning at 6 p.m. at the
Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St. This and all events
related to the conference are free and open to the public and no prior
registration is necessary.
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> "Celebrating Jewish Music at Yale" is sponsored by the Yale University
Library, the Program of Jewish Studies, the Whitney Humanities Center, the
Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale and the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation.
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>         For further information check the conference web site at
http://www.library.yale.edu/judaica/music/index.html  or contact Nanette
Stahl, conference director, at nanette(dot)stahl (at) yale(dot)edu  or phone 
number
(203)432-7207.
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