JEWISH EARLY MUSIC CONCERT WITH UCLA EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Concert: 6:30pm-8:00pm
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Our program will combine the scholarly presentation of information and ideas along with performance. Cantor Matthew Austerklein and Dr. Diana Matut will join the UCLA Musicology Department’s Early Music Ensemble. There are limited written sources of Jewish music prior to 1800. Extant documents show a wide range of influences in the Middle East and Europe. Creating the sounds of early Jewish music scholars and performers developed with clues from handwritten textual documents and musical notation. The repertoire presented will include 16th and 17th Century Yiddish songs, liturgical music from Amsterdam in the 18th Century along with German synagogue music from the late 1700s to the early 1800s. This unique program will bring to light unique and hidden sounds.
This event is made possible by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of the American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.