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If I was indeed engaged in my youth with singing and the musical art, surely it is the most magnificent of the arts, and I have elucidated its beneficial effects in the Abir Ya‘akov in this commentary…
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David Messer Leon
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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Early 16th Century
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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 dialogue in the land of the living between our teacher, R. Moses Maimonides, the Spaniard, and our Teacher Moses, son of Menaḥem [Mendelssohn] of Dessau, and an anonymous third person.
On the day of…
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Aaron Halle-Wolfsohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1794–1797
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Reb Shmelke:
Well, I can see that you are a clever man, so I will tell you the whole story in brief. [He takes a drink.] As you see me before you, I’m called Reb Smelke [Shmelke, as pronounced by a…
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Solomon Ettinger
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Zamość, Russian Empire (Zamość, Poland)
Date:
1839
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The plot of La Juive (The Jewish Woman), an opera in five acts, centered around a romance between a Jewish woman and a Christian man. It was one of the most popular operas of the nineteenth century.
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Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1835
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Le prophète (The Prophet) is a grand opera in five acts based on the life of John of Leiden, a sixteenth-century Anabaptist leader. It premiered in Paris in 1849 and was soon being performed in London…
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
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1849
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Der Thurm zu Babel (The Tower of Babel) is a one-act opera based on the story of the tower of Babel in Genesis. It premiered in Königsberg (today, Kaliningrad) in 1870. Its composer, Anton Rubinstein…
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Anton Rubinstein
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1870
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Die Königin von Saba (The Queen of Sheba) is Karl Goldmark’s most famous opera. Premiering in Vienna in 1875, its imaginative plot revolves around a love triangle involving the Queen of Sheba, Assad…
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Karl Goldmark
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1875
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Hebrew Melodies was a collaboration between the English poet Lord Byron (1788–1824) and his friend, the Jewish composer Isaac Nathan. It is a collection of thirty poems by the poet, set to music by…
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Isaac Nathan
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1815
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(The songs)
It frightens us so,
With our poor wares to go
And face the wide world and its scorn.
We have lived many days,
But know only the ways.
Of the villages where we were born.
(The author)
Yo…
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Pesach-Elijah Badkhn
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1871