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These program notes were prepared for the Radical New Jewish music performances which were part of the ART PROJEKT Festival held in Munich in September of 1992.
American New Music has always been…
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John Zorn, Marc Ribot
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New York, United States of America
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1992
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A retrospective exhibit these last few weeks at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris—perhaps too generously big an undertaking—has allowed a wider public to appreciate the originality and importance of…
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Édouard Roditi
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1963
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Day unto day bequeaths its fading sun,
and night after night laments for night.
Summer after summer is gathered in fall
and the world in its sorrow gives song.
Tomorrow we’ll die, the word in us…
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Avraham Ben-Yitzhak
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1917
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Many skeptics have denied the existence of Jewish music. Some lump it together with Oriental music; others refuse to admit its independence a priori, by virtue of the nomadic fate of the Jews, who…
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Society for Jewish Folk Music
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1913
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The world is full of armies.
But that is not what will kill us.
Béla Balázs
If there is culture today, it can only be an aesthetic culture. If one wants to raise seriously the question whether there…
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Georg Lukács
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
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1910
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Arnold Böcklin is dead—yet who among you knew that he lived? If I were to tell you that he was the man who knew how, with paintbrush dipped in colors upon a piece of canvas, to shake every heart…
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David Frishman
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1901
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My only, best and devoted friend, as I can express myself, nonpartisan, true friend Yankev Dinezon!
I really cherish the letter that I received from you last week. But unfortunately, I am so busy with…
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Esther-Rukhl Kaminski
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, Great Britain)
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1914
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Among the figures of contemporary ballet on the Maryinsky’s stage, Mathilda Kshesinskaya constitutes a phenomenon of exceptional interest. Her name enjoys great fame, her talent—unusually brilliant…
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Akim Volynsky
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1911
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All discussions pertaining to the Jews must begin with some very gloomy observations. The Jews are, everywhere, a minority group, and it is a particular misfortune these days to be a minority group in…
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Isaac Rosenfeld
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1944
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June 1, 1918
Jewish music is the face of a frozen sphinx which, after the millennium of its antiquity, is still only on the path to discovering its secret, is only now waking to life…
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Aleksander Krein
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
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1918