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Stories of Music

Apr 20 to Jun 15, 2020.
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Apr 20 to Jun 15, 2020.

Sharing the Sounds and Stories that Embody the American Jewish Experience.

Engage your congregants and constituents to think about their lives and histories in America in new and different ways. Stories of Music is a turnkey adult education project of the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Our goal is to provide easy to deliver, fully prepared lessons on a broad range of musically related topics. Each lesson is designed to engage participants in adult education programs to think about the American Jewish experience through stories of the evolving nature of Jewish music.

Stories of Music is a joint production of the Cantors Assembly and the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

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Stories of Music with Hazzan Elizabeth Shammash: Western Art Music as Synagogue Sound
How has Western Art Music Influenced Synagogue Worship? Since the Renaissance, Jews have risen to prominence in art music. This lesson explores the intersection of Western Art Music and Jewish music, and the influence it has had on the sound of synagogue worship.
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Stories of Music with Cantor Hinda Labovitz: Yiddish as a Reflection of  the Jewish American Experience
To learn how Yiddish became a prominent feature of the American Jewish experience, learners will listen to early Yiddish music and will be introduced to modern interpretations of Yiddish songs.
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Stories of Music with Cantor Gil Ezring: The Times They are a-Changin’ Pt. 1: Trends and Innovation in Jewish Music
Learners will be asked to consider how the music of summer camps impacted the music of the broader Jewish world and will examine the evolving relationship with Israel post-1967, and how technology has accelerated the transformation of Jewish music.
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Stories of Music with Rabbi Hillary Chorny: The Times They are a-Changin’ Pt. 2: Innovators & Influencers
Through the examination of the lives and musical of Gerald Cohen, Basya Schechter, and the leaders of Nava Tehila, we introduce three different approaches to making new Jewish music, and explore the influence they have had on the direction of American Jewish music innovation.
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Stories of Music with Cantor Sarah Myerson: Musical Journeys Through the Holocaust
This lesson will explore some of the musical activities that took place during the Holocaust, and the ways that Jews have collectively remembered the Holocaust through music.
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Stories of Music with Cantor Matthew Austerklein: A Musical Light Unto the Nations: Ernest Bloch & Leonard Bernstein
Learners will explore how self-identified Jewish classical composers like Ernest Bloch & Leonard Bernstein used their particular Jewish cultural background in relation to universal human questions in their musical works.
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Stories of Music with Rabbi Neil Blumofe: Jews, Jazz, and Jewish Jazz Pt. 1
In this unit of Stories of Music, Rabbi Blumofe explores how Jews have helped shape jazz as musicians, bandleaders, songwriters, promoters, record label managers and more.
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Stories of Music with Rabbi Neil Blumofe: Jews, Jazz, and Jewish Jazz Pt. 2
In this unit of Stories of Music, Rabbi Blumofe explores how Jews used jazz to shape the contours of American Jewish identity. This lesson explores jazz sacred services and introduces learners to the Jewish jazz of the concert stage. It ends with a brief look at the Israeli fascination with jazz.
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