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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDear Friends and Colleagues
Join us for COZ 31: Judeo Spanish Song Tuesday February 16, 2021
Dr Isabelle Ganz
Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice, Eastman School of Music, Mezzo-soprano and pioneer (1st L.P. 1980) in the performance of Sephardic music, forming her ensemble, Alhambra in 1981″. http://www.alhambragroup.com
With Dr Susana We…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic Bloch Study Group in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThe next Ernest Bloch Study Group Zoom Meeting takes place on
Wednesday February 10: at 5.00p, UK time.
Aaron Klaus talks about the Jewish Musical Markers in Ernest Bloch’s ‘Proclamation’ for Trumpet and Orchestra This presentation will provide an analysis of Bloch’s Proclamation for Trumpet and Orchestra (1955) grounded in “Jewish musical…[Read more]
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D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited The Role of the Digression on the Man of the Law Courts and the Philosopher (172b-177c) in the Argument of Theaetetus in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoInterpretations of the Theaetetus digression fail to see how it functions in Plato’s argument because they have taken its praise of the philosopher at face value. But this is not the philosopher from Republic. His otherworldliness reflects both Theodorus’ mathematical understanding of philosophy as the study of ‘divine’ objects and the judgeme…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoDear Friends and Colleagues
Join us for COZ 30: Tuesday February 9, 2021
Professor Mark Slobin in conversation with Joshua Waletzky take A Fresh Look at the Yiddish Folksong
Mark Slobin Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus at Wesleyan University, ethnomusicologist and author and Joshua Waletzky Filmmaker, singer, and composer
They…[Read more]
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Jane Enkin replied to the topic Defining Jewish Music in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThe kavana is important. Someone can compose one piece as Jewish music and the next as something else. We heard David Amram on Conversations on Zoom and it was clear that he had selected his Jewish compositions for us to hear — in his case, they included Jewish text, or Jewish narrative, or motifs from Jewish folk music. There was no…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Fisher started the topic Defining Jewish Music in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoAt Monday’s (1.2.21) informal IFJMS gathering on Zoom (rather intimate – there were only 7 participants – but very interesting), the topic of Defining Jewish Music suddenly came up for discussion. For all those involved in Jewish music (even for myself, with only 3 years of experience in the field), this is a well-known (some might say, well-worn)…[Read more]
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David Fligg started the topic Holocaust Memorial Day events now available on YouTube in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoI draw your attention to two of last week’s Holocaust Memorial Day events which are now available on YouTube.
- ‘The Last Chords in the Auschwitz Universe’, which focuses on Gideon Klein: https://youtu.be/ZiJgcjXkdR0
- Dr. Gila Flam (National Library of Israel), delivering the annual Royal Northern College of Music HMD lecture, ‘Yiddish Songs…
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoDear Friends and Colleagues
Join us for COZ 29: Tuesday February 2, 2021
Rabbi Boruh Cohon in conversation with Jonathan Morgan
to talk about The Fish and the Phonograph, the Life and work of AZ IdelsohnRetired Cantor and Rabbi, Baruch Cohon was revered pioneering Jewish ethnomusicologist, AZ Idelsohn’s, youngest student from the age of fi…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited An Interactional Theory of Truth: On Searle on Truth and Facts in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis is a critique of the logicist theory of truth and facts set forth in the final section of John R. Searle’s book ‘The Construction of Social Reality’ (1995). Searle’s logicist account, much in the line of his theory of speech acts, is contrasted to a pragmaticist and interactionalist perspective on truth, facts, and discourse. Keywords:…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Fisher started the topic The Slave – A new opera by Michael Shapiro in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoSpectacular World of Jewish Music, a non-profit organization in Israel dedicated to “bringing Jewish music to the forefront of the stage”, is delighted to announce the planned Premiere of The Slave, a new opera by the Jewish American composer Michael Shapiro, in Jerusalem, in the 2022/23 season. The opera is based on the novel The Slave by the…[Read more]
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Uri Schreter replied to the topic IFJMS welcomes Jewish Music Studies groups and organisations. in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoHi all,
lovely seeing many of you at the meeting yesterday.
As requested, here’s a description of our organization, the JSMSG:
The Jewish Studies and Music Study Group (JSMSG) is a study group of the American Musicological Society (AMS). Our core activities revolve around the annual AMS conference, where we organize an academic panel about…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach started the topic IFJMS welcomes Jewish Music Studies groups and organisations. in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThe International Forum for Jewish Music Studies (IFJMS) was set up (in June 2020) to facilitate connection between scholars, musicians and librarians dealing with Jewish music.
IFJMS therefore invites Jewish Music Studies groups and organisations to register here at the Jewish Music Group on the Humanities Commons website https://hcommons-staging…[Read more]
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Christopher Edwards deposited Centre and Circumference: William Blake on the Political Divide in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis essay was conceived as an ‘op-ed’ submission in response to the disturbing events in Washington D.C. this January. It is a practical application of the model of experience that was outlined in the paper ‘On Being Dimensional’. It offers a different perspective on the arguments that characterize a liberal and a conservative.
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic Holocaust Memorial Day in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoOn 24 Jan 2021, at 16:17, Simon Broughton <simon.broughton@btconnect.com> wrote:
Dear Friends
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day this year, JMI is screening The Music of Terezin, a documentary I made nearly 30 years ago about the Jewish musicians and composers imprisoned in the Terezín (Theresienstadt) ghetto in WWII Czechoslovakia. (Apologies to…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic Holocaust Memorial Day in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoMimi Sheffer Writes
Our Concert Refuge in Phantasy Will be broadcast on DeutschlandFunk Kultur on January 27th , the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at 20:00 Central European Time.
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/unsere-live-streams.2428.de.html
Our concert series Living Music features Jewish composers who escaped the Nazi re…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited El espectador real (Siendo leídos) in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 5 years agofrom
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LITERARY THEORY, CRITICISM AND PHILOLOGY
http://bit.ly/abibliog
Spanish abstract: En su ‘Teoría de los sentimientos morales’ habla Adam Smith de cómo en la comunicación pública el espectador virtual que emana de nuestro discurso puede no coincidir con los receptores reales de dicho discurso. Y ve Smith en esa no coi…[Read more] -
Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoDear Friends and Colleagues
Join us for COZ 28: January 26, 2021 Cantor Jaclyn Chernett in conversation with Cantor Jalda Rebling
to talk about Nusach with KavanahJaclyn is the director of EAJL The European Academy for Jewish Liturgy EAJL) http://www.eajl.org
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic Holocaust Memorial Day in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoAgnes Kory Invites us to her Wigmore Hall talk: International Holocaust Memorial Day, Wednesday 27th January, 10am
she says: There is some overlap with my 15th December 2020 Zoom (COZ) talk, which I delivered for the International Forum for Jewish Music Studies (IFJMS).However, I very much hope that you will be able to log into the Wigmore Hall…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach started the topic Holocaust Memorial Day in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoDavid Fligg says
To mark next Wednesday’s Holocaust Memorial Day, I draw your attention to two music-related events.
- Tuesday 26th January, 7pm UK time. Taube Jewish Heritage Tours presents ‘The Last Chords in the Auschwitz Universe’ about Gideon Klein’s final months, and eventual murder, in the Fürstengrube camp . You can register here.
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Allan Savage deposited Philosophy is a Destabilizing Inquiry in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 5 years agoI take as a “jumping off place” for this reflection the Conclusion that Werner Brock, (DPhil) made to his lectures published as An Introduction to Contemporary German Philosophy (1935, Cambridge University Press). Following the observation of J. H. Muirhead in the Foreword, that “readers will draw their own conclusions from his presentation of hi…[Read more]
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