[ARSCLIST] "Sephardic Music on Record", NYC Lecture, February 16

[Joel Bresler <joel.br@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Friends:

I hope you or others you know will be able to join us in Manhattan 
next week for what should be an enjoyable talk.

Warmly,

Joel Bresler

(Apologies for cross posting!)

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Edwin Seroussi and Joel Bresler
"Sephardic Music on Record: A Century of Commercial Ladino Recordings"
Center for Jewish History
15 W. 16th St. New York City
Friday, February 16, 2007
10:30 AM to Noon

Greetings!
With the generous support of the American Jewish Historical Society, 
the American Society for Jewish Music welcomes you to the Jewish 
Music Forum lecture series. This month, we will experience the 
unveiling of a significant new development in Sephardic music 
research for the international community:

"Sephardic Music on Record: A Century of Commercial Ladino Recordings"

Presented by:

Edwin Seroussi, professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Joel 
Bresler, principal researcher and discographer.
Respondent: Virginia Danielson, Harvard University.
Co-sponsor: American Sephardi Federation.

In brief:
Edwin Seroussi and Joel Bresler reveal a new, innovative, web-based 
encyclopedic resource--a Sephardic Music Catalogue that will list all 
known commercial recordings containing Ladino songs. The project 
launch coincides with the 100th anniversary of commercial Sephardic 
recording. The discussion will include a survey of commercial 
recordings of Sephardic music, with a particular emphasis on the 
first half of the 20th century. It will also cover recording 
technology's impact on the perception, reception and canonization of 
Ladino songs in recent decades, illustrated with rare early recordings.

Distinguished panel:
Dr. Edwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology, 
Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre and chair of the 
Department of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Joel 
Bresler is a Harvard MBA and has been collecting and researching 
Sephardic music on commercial recordings for 30 years. Dr. Virginia 
Danielson is the Richard F. French Librarian of the Loeb Music 
Library at Harvard University, and a noted expert on Middle Eastern music.

About the Jewish Music Forum:
The Forum is a colloquium in which invited lecturers present original 
research in a flexible format that is followed by response and open 
discussion. With the support of the American Jewish Historical 
Society, the Jewish Music Forum, a project of the American Society 
for Jewish Music, launched its new series at the Center for Jewish 
History in the spring of 2005. The Jewish Music Forum is devoted to 
the study of Jewish music in all of its historical and contemporary diversity.

This event is free and open to the public.

Please join us Friday, Feb. 16th--with all best wishes,

G. Genova
Jewish Music Forum
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http://www.jewishmusicforum.org



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