Arts School Faculty of Humanities

Music Department

at the University of HaifaFebruary 11-13, 2013

Monday, February 116:30 pmYiddish Songs of Love and Faith

Eliyahu Schleifer, baritoneMikhal Shiff-Matter, mezzo-sopranoAya Schleifer, piano

Yiddish folk songs, theater songs and art songs byMordechai Gebirtig, Shalom Secunda, Abe Ellstein and others

8:30 pmHermann Bermann: Schiraus ZwiBoaz Davidoff, cantorUpper Galilee ChoirYuval Rabin, organRon Zarchi, conductor

Synagogue music for Sabbath and High Holydays by Hermann Bermann, Oberkantor in Leipa, Bohemia, between 1880-1917.

Tuesday, February 126:30 pmCanta Gallico – An Array of Sephardic SongRomancero, Cantiga and Coplas, from the Balkan throughMorrocco, from the collections of Dr. Suzanna Weich-Shahak

Orit Perlman, singerYarden Erez, udZeev Yaniv, percussion

8:30 pmJewish Prayer – Viola and Organ Concert

Semjon Kalinowsky, violaTorsten Laux, organ

Works by Louis Lewandowski, Max Bruch, Joseph Sulzer, Friedrich Gernsheim, Fernand Halphen, Hermann Berlinski, Albert Kellermann, Jehan Alain, and Torsten Laux

Wednesday, February 1311 am – 6 pmJewish Music Conference

11 am – 1 pm Session I2 pm – 4 pm Session II4:30 pm – 6 pm Movie Screening

6:30 pmCantorial Music & Organ Music by Jewish Composers

Rona Israel-Kolat, sopranoBoaz Davidoff, cantorEliyahu Schleifer, cantorYuval Rabin, organ

Cantorial music: to be announcedOrgan music by Julius Chajes, Jaromir Weinberger, Ernest Blochand others

8:30 pmYehezkel Braun (born 1922): Sabbath Evening Service (1971)

Boaz Davidoff, cantorUpper Galilee ChoirYuval Rabin, organRon Zarchi, conductor

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