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	Secular Jewish culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Literary and theatrical expressions of secular Jewish culture may be in specifically Jewish languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish or Ladino, or it may be in the language of the surrounding cultures, such as English or German.
		Jewish musical contributions also tend to reflect the cultures of the countries in which Jews live, the most notable examples being classical and popular music in the United States and Europe.
		Probably the most notable ethnically Jewish composer of operettas was Jacques Offenbach, a Roman Catholic convert; in the second half of the 20th century, Serge Gainsbourg's was one of the dominant figures in the evolution of cabaret music.
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		Yet from the frenzied klezmer dance melody of the Second Piano Trio (1944) to the mournful vocal cycle From the Jewish Folk Poetry (1948) to the sweeping sorrow of the Holocaust evoked in the Thirteenth Symphony ("Babi Yar") of 1962, Shostakovich carried on a lifelong affair with the sound and soul of Russian Jewry.
		Jewish folk music has made a most powerful impression on me. I never tire of delighting in it, it's multifaceted, it can appear to be happy while it is tragic.
		However, on the question of Shostakovich and Jewish music, he zeroes in on a simple, powerful truth: In the postwar Soviet Union, to write music on Jewish themes of any kind was a provocative, explicitly political act, a direct critique of the regime's anti-Semitism.
	www.nextbook.org /cultural/print.html?id=20 (1427 words)

	Epic poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, and one of the major forms of narrative literature.
		In these traditions, poetry is transmitted to the audience and from performer to performer by purely oral means.
		World folk epics are those epics which are not just literary masterpieces but also an integral part of the world view of a people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epic_poetry (842 words)

	ARSIS: Catalog: CD120 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The texts in Shostakovich's cycle deal with hardships, death, and anti-Semitism, and were composed in the midst of an attempted extermination of Jewish culture by the Stalin regime.
		The Shostakovich cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry, opus 79, was composed in 1948 during a time of escalating, government sanctioned anti-Semitism in Russia.
		The theme of religious conversion in the sixth song was widely construed by the Jewish audience [at the first performance]...as a warning about the possible loss of ethnic identity and the danger of assimilation.
	www.arsisaudio.com /cd120.html (1765 words)

	Background to Happiness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		("From Jewish folk poetry") and expressed his appreciation of the Jewish people, but he was unable to publish his songs immediately, for even though they contain no criticism of the regime, and, in fact, implicitly support it, anything Jewish was suspect at that time.
		It is very unlikely that Jewish folk poetry would be in Russian rather than Yiddish.
		The probable intent of the publication that the composer found was to demonstrate Jewish fidelity to the Soviet regime.
	www.uwm.edu /~corre/occasionalw/cobbler2.html (244 words)

	DSCH 23 Shostakovich CD Reviews - From Jewish Folk Poetry, Piano Quintet
		A fittingly light interlude between the Piano Quintet and From Jewish Folk Poetry is provided by four Preludes from opus 34 arranged for violin and piano by the Beethoven Quartet's first violinist Dmitri Tsyganov.
		Two minor quibbles: the Quintet is given an incorrect opus number in the notes but not on the CD cover or in the track listing, and the song cycle is given the opus number 79a, which applies to the orchestrated version, not this original configuration with piano accompaniment.
		Revelation did not provide the libretto in their release of From Jewish Folk Poetry, and it is a pity that Eclectra followed their example instead of that of Russian Disc, who included transliterated Russian texts and English translations of the songs.
	www.dschjournal.com /reviews/rvs23op79.htm (1154 words)

	Baltimore Symphony Orchestra > Press Room > In the News
		So when he came across a collection of Jewish folk poems published in Russian translation in 1948, Shostakovich could set them to music that was thoroughly his own, yet extraordinarily idiomatic.
		The resulting song cycle, From Jewish Folk Poetry, is at the center of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's latest, meaty program.
		In evoking Jewish melodic and harmonic inflections, the cycle creates a soundscape as authentic as it is touching.
	www.baltimoresymphony.org /pressroom/inthenews/view.asp?id=40000026 (501 words)

	Music under Soviet rule: Mannes Conference 2
		And she says that he was trying to write socialist realist music to fulfill a quota and that it was "just his rotten luck" that of all the nationalities upon which he could base his work he chose the Jews.
		I said, "What cycle?" "Jewish Folk Poetry." I said, "But why me?" I didn't realize that because Ashkenazy is a Jewish name -- I myself was actually brought up as a Russian because my mother had been christened and I was very much in the Russian frame of mind.
		I didn't feel myself Jewish -- but I realized, because my name is Jewish, she chose me to be the pianist in the performance of this Jewish Folk Poetry cycle.
	www.siue.edu /~aho/musov/man/mannes2.html (3972 words)

	DSCH 10 Shostakovich CD Reviews - From Jewish Folk Poetry; New Babylon
		Those opposing this view feel that the choice of Jewish material was a conscious gesture of protest from the point of conception.
		To subscribers of dissident thought in Shostakovich's music, it would not be the first time that the composer tagged on a suspiciously upbeat finale to a serious work as a patronizing and compensating gesture.
		Performances of From Jewish Folk Poetry were surprisingly scant in the first 30 years of its existence and, fortunately, have increased in frequency and quality in recent years.
	www.dschjournal.com /reviews/rvs10op79.htm (1672 words)

	ezFolk Media Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It includes the composer's final symphony, the 15th, performed by the London Philharmonic, and the disc is filled out with his series "From Jewish Folk Poetry" performed by the Concertgebouw.
		From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op.79: I Lament For A Dead Infant
		From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op.79: VI The Deserted Father
	www.ezfolk.com /cgi-bin/ae.pl?asinsearch=B00000IP3B (555 words)

	Judaism and Jewish Resources - Andrew Tannenbaum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Jewish Family and Life is a web magazine for Jewish parents that reflects the strong family traditions of Jewish culture in the language of the 90's.
		The Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations is dedicated to the study and preservation of Jewish history and culture.
		Jewish Marriage Encounter weekends offer couples an opportunity to explore the full potential of their relationships, with an emphasis on communication and understanding.
	www.shamash.org /trb/judaism.html (7799 words)

	Shtetl: Alef-beys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Warshavsky’s songs ingenuously and emotionally embody the motifs of Jewish folk poetry, whose spirit the author grasped so precisely.
		Jewish hero of Warshavsky’s songs is an optimist.
		The metre of the verses is not always sustained, form is quite diverse, poem's structure and rhyme is folk and gentle.
	www.ibiblio.org /yiddish/songs/pripetshek/mw.html (362 words)

	Violin Concerto in A minor, Op.77/99
		Several of the other works Shostakovich composed or conceived during that grim period were treated with similar prudence; among these were the Tenth Symphony, the Fourth String Quartet, and the song cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry, all in one respect or another pivotal works for him.
		Toward the end of his life he decided to restore the original opus number to the Concerto in order to establish the work's true chronology--and perhaps to invite those who might regard his big works as "secret chronicles" of Soviet life to unleash their speculations about it.
		Since the Concerto was composed at almost the same time as the cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry, it may well be that Shostakovich's imagination veered in that direction.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2068 (633 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich Chamber Music
		From 1948 to 1952, the year of Stalin’s death, he concentrated on film scores, rather than symphonies and though his public face was contrite, he produced a series of works in which he followed his own muse rather than the dictates of the Party.
		The Fourth Quartet, the Violin Concerto and From Jewish Folk Poetry are all inspired by the folk music of the Jews of Russia.
		As Shostakovich explained, ‘the distinguishing feature of Jewish music is the ability to build a jolly melody on sad intonations.
	www.fuguemasters.com /dsch.html (4928 words)

	Sweet Corn Productions - Steve Bryant's Program Notes - 2
		When a composer gives voice to poetry, he or she makes choices not unlike those of an oral interpreter.
		Schostakovich’s trio sets selections from a printed collection of Jewish folk song texts, but the musical language is his own.
		The work succeeds in capturing the plaintive quality of folk song while heightening its expression and insight through sophisticated harmonic and rhythmic devices.
	www.buddybuddy.com /sweet-n2.html (543 words)

	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
		That concert came on the heels of another at Disney Hall on May 9, in which she participated in premieres of Unsuk Chin’s vibrant “Cantatrix Sopranica” and Reynolds’ sprawling, multidimensional “Illusion,” two works commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group.
		(The trio gave the same program at the Jewish Community Center in La Jolla on May 24.) She’s doing this in part, out of friendship for Neal Brostoff, who is producing the concert and accompanying the singers.
		“From Jewish Folk Poetry” doesn’t require Plitmann to enter the vocal stratosphere, but her ability to do so has served her well and marked her for distinction.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=15927 (1023 words)

	Music for Hanukkah
		Jewish music at its roots, from a French composer, sung by an Italian, accompanied by a Chinese pianist.
		Evidently London Records has no trouble deciding what Jewish music is. They put together more than an hour of it for a recording called "L'Chaim (To Life): The Ultimate Jewish Music Collection." It features the London Festival Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Stanley Black.
		Another CD which features a Jewish performer playing Jewish music is harpist Rachel Van Voorhees' recording of "Jewish Favorites" on the Centaur label.
	www.compactdiscoveries.com /CompactDiscoveriesScripts/22Hanukkah.html (1308 words)

	Baltimore Symphony Orchestra > Press Room > In the News
		The seven orchestral songs of Shostakovich's "From Jewish Folk Poetry" capture an impoverished people's pitiable musings on Stalinist times.
		The ravishing voices of soprano Oksana Krovytska, mezzo Marietta Simpson and tenor Vsevolod Grivnov fully projected the poetry's nostalgic melancholy -- everything clothed in the Eastern European cantillation that Shostakovich immersed in a Mahlerian haze.
		Dvorak's Ninth ("New World") Symphony, which indistinguishably mixes imagined re-creations of syncopated African American spirituals with Bohemian folk styles, is at odds with itself.
	www.baltimoresymphony.org /pressroom/inthenews/view.asp?id=40000028 (229 words)

	The DSCH JOURNAL - Book Review - Fay's Biography of Shostakovich
		It is a decision that at times leads to awkward moments, such as in her already infamous discussion of the cycle "From Jewish Folk Poetry"(FJFP), in which her own trail of footnotes touches upon evidence that would contradict her view of the work's conception.
		Another instance occurs in her discussion of the Eleventh Symphony (1956-7) where she dismisses the contemporaneous Hungarian uprising as a possible source of the composer's inspiration, citing a lack of "available evidence".
		One may disagree with Fay for insisting on a counterintuitive interpretation of FJFP, but she cannot be accused of attempting to conceal Shostakovich's ant-establishment frame of mind.
	www.dschjournal.com /journal12/books12.htm (4902 words)

	Laura Wetzler - An amazingly Gifted Songwriter/Singer of Jewish Folk
		Some are celebrations of folk, sacred and ethnic music, others are theme or tribute shows created by Laura honoring the artistry, social context and legacy of some of America's most gifted songwriters and legendary performers.
		Discover how the great Sephardic poets influence Jewish literature and song the world over; trace these sacred and secular songs on their journey through time and place.
		A musical celebration of the contributions of women to Jewish life through songs from all over the world; also the lives and songs of women composers, performers and collectors who create, rescue, renew and transmit this cultural heritage.
	www.laurawetzler.com /concertsandlectures.html (1217 words)

	Music under Soviet rule: Debate/Question of Dissidence/5
		In terms of the question of dissidence, the main focuses of discussion have been the Fifth Symphony, From Jewish Folk Poetry, and the Eighth Quartet.
		The latter is now generally accepted as a dissident composition (or, at any rate, in Taruskin's detached phrase "a message in a bottle").
		To equate forced silence with absence of independent thought (as Richard Taruskin does with his sweeping claim that there were no dissidents under Stalin) is grievously to misconstrue Shostakovich and the world he lived and worked in.
	www.siue.edu /~aho/musov/deb/qod5.html (1743 words)

	MyJewishBooks Online
		At the same time Ismaele - Jewish grandson of the king of Jerusalem and in love with Fenena - also comes to the Temple, spreading the news that Babylonian soldiers are successfully invading.
		Zaccaria, together with his fellow exiled Jews is goes to Fenena's apartments to make her convert to the Jewish faith.
		Ismaele, alone in a room with the Levites, is feeling deeply dejected; he is seen as a traitor by everybody.
	www.myjewishbooks.com /classicalmusic.html (2003 words)

	DSCH-L Archives - February 1998
		Jewish Folk Poetry, the 8th Symphony, Piano Quintet
		Jewish Folk Poetry, the 8th Symphony, Piano Quintet (82 lines)
		Re: Jewish Folk Poetry, the 8th Symphony, Piano Quintet (94 lines)
	listserv.uh.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind9802&L=dsch-l (149 words)

	Music for Hanukkah?
		Of course the harp is a better instrument for slow, lyrical pieces than it is for an Israeli hora, so not all of these pieces succeed equally well in these transcriptions, and I don't think anyone would want to listen to the entire CD at once.
		But judicious broadcast use of these Jewish pieces would work quite well and would interest a much wider audience than just the ethnic group to which they owe their origin.
		The music is an eclectic compilation of folk songs and more formal compositions from many different sources reflecting the diverse and multinational nature of the Jewish experience.
	compactdiscoveries.com /CompactDiscoveriesArticles/Hanukkah.html (1376 words)

	Jewish Music Web Center Announcements: Shostakovich at 100 Held in LA
		Jewish Music Web Center Announcements: Shostakovich at 100 Held in LA News and Features
		Celebrating the centennial of Russia's leading 20th century composer, The Jewish Music Commission of Los Angeles (JMCLA) presents a free community concert.
		79 (1948), written at the height of Soviet cultural repression and featuring Russian translations of Yiddish folk poetry, will also be performed.
	www.jmwc.org /announcements/2006/05/shostakovich_at.html (180 words)

	The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, Mélodies, Chansons and other Vocal Music
		a text in Yiddish from folk poetry/song tradition, "Zun mit a regn", Jewish folk poetry.
		a text in Yiddish from folk poetry/song tradition, "Elie der shenker zitst in khalat", Jewish folk poetry.
		a text in Yiddish from folk poetry/song tradition, "Af a lonke ba dem veldl", Jewish folk poetry.
	www.recmusic.org /lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=135&PRINTABLE=1 (833 words)

	Poetry.
		This is an album of poetry recited by Ron Perlman, who played the Beast in the TV series.
		Poetry at the Piano - Chopin / John Noel Roberts
		Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006)
	www.cduniverse.com /sresult.asp?style=music&frm=lk_chaosexists&HT_Search_Info=Poetry.&HT_Search= (361 words)

	Shostakovich: The Jewish Theme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In January 1949, Stalin launched a virulent campaign against Jewish culture and Zionism.
		This day school explores some of the works into which Shostakovich, a composer most sympathetic to the Jews’ plight, insinuated Jewish themes, including the ‘Babiy Yar’ symphony, chamber and keyboard music, and the song-cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry.
		Day school from 10.00 am to 3.30 pm on Thursday 24 November 2005 at Coleg Gwent, The Hill Education and Conference Centre, Pen-y-pound, Abergavenny.
	www.cf.ac.uk /learn/music/shostakovich_jewish_theme_outside.php (88 words)

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