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Leonard Bernstein
1918–1990
One of the few celebrated 20th-century composers whose catalogue consists in large proportion of works on Jewish themes, Leonard Bernstein was a composer of symphonic works and Broadway musicals, a world-renowned conductor, and a passionate teacher.
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May 5th, 2013
The appellations “psalms” and “canticles” in the title of this volume are used in their extra-religious generic sense to suggest the medium of choral music outside the sacred realm, although ...>
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Allusions to Hebrew or Yiddish song are most frequently assumed to connote popular, folk, folklike, commercial, pedagogic, or theatrical genres and, in the case of Hebrew, kibbutz, ḥalutz (pioneer), aliya, ...>
April 9th, 2012
Table of Contents
Modern Israel and the American Jewish Experience
The Eastern European Immigrant Era
American Zionism and the Reform Movement
The Blackstone Memorial: Reform Supporters and American Legitimization
The Kishinev Pogrom: Reform and Other American Responses
Uganda: For ...>
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“Anyone who has heard this [music] knows that the faith is true.” Thus was the present Bishop of Rome—also known to the world as Pope Benedict XVI—once moved to remark ...>
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"Classical" Concert Music of American Jewish Experience: The Greatest Surprise?
Of the categories of music contained in the Milken Archive, none is likely, by virtue of its very existence as well as its ...>
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One of the iconic musical figures of our age, Leonard Bernstein left a singular legacy as a composer of classical symphonies and Broadway shows, as a compelling conductor, and as ...>
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