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ballads accompanied by exotic medieval instruments. QEH: 8 pm. to 10 pm. Gregori Schechter's Klezmer Festival Band (with added strings and a giant shofar!). Traditional Jewish folk music from Eastern Europe. --------------------------- end --------------------------- ...
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----- ------- is a cassette tape of electronic performances of chamber music compositions of mine. It features the trombone quartet Call of the Shofar (which some of you are familiar with), and a new trio for clarinet, viola, and piano built out of haftara trope, called Kabala. ---Also included are ...
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ballads accompanied by exotic medieval instruments. QEH: 8 pm. to 10 pm. Gregori Schechter's Klezmer Festival Band (with added strings and a giant shofar!). Traditional Jewish folk music from Eastern Europe. Philip J. Leonard mike (at) order(dot)ph(dot)utexas(dot)edu ...
it was some sort of pipe organ (an interesting example of retrojection). It seems to have been some sort of signaling device. Keep in mind that the shofar and chatsotsrot were also used for signaling, not aesthetic purposes. Here are some references: Hofman, Shlomo. Hamusikah Betalmud. Tel Aviv: IMI ...
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? Did anybody happen to tape it? I go to my sister-in-law's when I want to see video...I have information suggesting that my composition "Call of the Shofar" was used in this program, but my contact with the organization seems to react to stress by going into a shell and not answering any calls or messages ...
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as a vehicle of expression. The only musical instrument of any kind which finds a place in any service, apart from the marriage service, is the Shofar. Even then we appear to take the first possible opportunity to leave it out. What reason do the Rabbis give for not blowing the Shofar on Shabbat? Logic ...
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, too. A couple years ago, I was commissioned to write a piece for a trombone quartet. Starting with the notion that trombones can do a pretty good shofar immitation, I soon found myself using shofar blasts to mark the sections of a sonata-formed double fugue on the following two melodies: 1) This one ...
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D. Kaiser Erev Rosh Hashanah - Elul 29 Rosh Hashanah - Tishri 1 Also known as Yom Hadin, Yom Hazikaron and Yom Teruah (Day of the sounding of the shofar) The creation of the world was finished on Tishri 1. This holiday, the Jewish spiritual New Year, is characterized by the blowing of the shofar. During ...