Jewish Music Conference at Yale

Celebrating Jewish Music at Yale
April 12-13, 2003

Participants
Michael Alpert (Brave Old World)
Rachel Bergman (Yale University)
Margaret Fassler (Yale University)
Judit Frigyesi (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Mark Kligman(Hebrew Union College, NY)
Craig Harwood (Yale University)
Hankus Netsky (New England Conservatory)
Ellen Rosand (Yale University)
Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Harvard University)
Mark Slobin (Wesleyan University)
Jeffrey A. Summit (Tufts University)

Speaker Biographies

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Location of Conference Sessions

Whitney Humanities Center (Yale University), 53 Wall Street, New Haven
Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall Street, New Haven

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Conference Program

Saturday, April 12th

8:30 p.m. Concert by Brave Old World
Trinity Lutheran Church, 292 Orange Street (corner Wall Street), New Haven
Free and open to the Public

Sunday, April 13th

9:30-12:00 Jewish Theater Music
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street

Chair: Ellen Rosand, Yale University,
All in the Family: Early Jewish - American Popular Song
Mark Slobin (Wesleyan University)
From Catering Hall to Concert Hall and Back: Philadelphia's Jewish Musicians, 1915-1960
Hankus Netsky (New England Conservatory)
Creativity in Captivity: Viktor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Rachel Bergman (Yale Univerity)

12:00-12:30 Lunch

12:30-2:30 Sacred Music

Chair: Margot Fassler, Yale University
Music of Worship and Celebration among the Abayudaya (Jewish People) of Uganda
Jeffrey Summit (Tufts University)
Sephardic Liturgical Music: Diversity and Uniqueness
Mark Kligman (Hebrew Union College, NY)
The Styles of East-Ashkenazi Jewish Liturgical Music: Between Written and Oral
Judit Frigyesi (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

2:30-3:30 Concert: music from Yale Collections performed by students from the Music Department.

3:30-5:30 Celebration and Community

Chair: Michael Alpert, Brave Old World
Bringing the Bride to Tears
Craig Harwood (Yale University)
Maintaining Jewish Communities Through Music
Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Harvard University)
The Modern Odyssey of the Judeo-Spanish Folksong
Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

6:00-7:30 Concert by Antares, a chamber music quartet, performing music by Yale composers

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Exhibit

Music from the Wallersteiner Collection in the Music Library

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Conference Sponsors
Yale University Library
Program in Judaic Studies at Yale University
Whitney Humanities Center
Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale (the Yale Hillel)
The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation

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Conference Director
Dr. Nanette Stahl, email: nanette.stahl@yale.edu
Judaica Curator
Yale University Library

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Planning Committee

Kendall Crilly
Andrew W. Mellon Music Librarian
The Irving S. Gilmore Music Library

Craig Harwood
Graduate student, School of Music
Yale University

Paula Hyman
Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History
Yale University

Rabbi James E. Ponet
Jewish Chaplain & Director, Yale Hillel/Slifka Center
Yale University

Nanette Stahl
Judaica Curator
Yale University Library

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Hotels in New Haven
If you are planning on remaining in New Haven for the entire conference and need hotel accomodations, you might try the following:

The Colony Inn, 1157 Chapel Street, tel: 203-776-1234
The Holiday Inn at Yale, 30 Whalley Avenue, tel: 203-777-6221
The Omni Hotel, 155 Temple Street, tel: 1-800-THE OMNI
New Haven Hotel, 229 George Street, tel: 203-498-3100

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Comments
Please send any comments or suggestions to Nanette Stahl.

Email: nanette.stahl@yale.edu

Regular mail:
Nanette Stahl, Judaica Curator
Sterling Memorial Library
130 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240

Telephone: (203) 432-7207

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