lundi 6 avril 2015
That Old Jewish Magic ? Harold Arlen and American Popular SongConversation with Dr. Walter Frisch and Dr. Jonathan Karp Admission is Free. Please RSVP to info -at- jewishmusicforum.org Music scholar Walter Frisch and Jewish historian Jonathan Karp discuss the life and legacy of Harold Arlen (1905-1986). Born Hyman Arluck, the son of a cantor from Buffalo, New York, Arlen composed some of the most beloved and admired songs of the twentieth century, including "Blues in the Night," "Over the Rainbow," "Come Rain or Come Shine," and "That Old Black Magic." The conversation will situate Arlen's work within the broader phenomenon of popular songwriting by American Jewish composers. Walter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1982. He has written widely about the Austro-German music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Schubert, Brahms, and Schoenberg, as well as about early musical modernism in its cultural context. Frisch is general editor of a new series of period music historiesfrom W. W. Norton, Western Music in Context. His own volume in the series, Music in the Nineteenth Century, appeared in Fall 2012. He is currently doing research the music and career of the American song composer Harold Arlen. Jonathan Karp is Associate Professor in the departments of Judaic Studies and History at Binghamton University of the State University of New York (SUNY). He has been a visiting professor at Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania and from 2010-2013 was director of the American Jewish Historical Society. He is the author of The Politics of Jewish Commerce: Economic Thought and Emancipation in Europe (Cambridge, 2008) and with Adam Sutcliffe editor of Philosemitism in History (Cambridge, 2010) and the forthcoming Cambridge History of Judaism in the Early Modern Period. He is v currently completing a monograph entitled Chosen Surrogates: A Class-Cultural Analysis of Black-Jewish Relations. The Jewish Music Forum is a project of the American Society for Jewish Music, with the support of the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History. Founded in 2004, the Jewish Music Forum is now in its eleventh season. For more information please visit https://www.jewishmusicforum.org One-Day Seminar & Workshop on Historical Action "Baroque Gesture:
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