Lecture-Demonstration: Sephardic Songs: Myths & Realities by Prof. Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew University)

Wed, September 18, 2019 | Bates Recital Hall, UT Butler School of Music, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Through deep excavations into some classics of the performed Sephardic repertoire, this lecture-demonstration will show the extent to which what is often said about them remains true after thorough historical examination.

This lecture-demonstration, free and open to the public, will include a talk by Prof. Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew University) and a live performance by Artistic Director, Daniel Johnson, and members of Texas Early Music Project (TEMP), a professional ensemble that has performed Sephardic concerts and has produced three CDs containing Sephardic repertoire: La Rosa: Sephardic Love Songs, c. 1400–1600; Night and Day: Sephardic Songs of Love and Exile; and Convivencia: Love and War in Renaissance Spain.

About Dr. Edwin Seroussi

Edwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology and the director of the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He researches North African and Eastern Mediterranean Jewish music, Judeo-Islamic relations in music, and Israeli popular music. A pioneer in the study of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Jewish musical cultures and traditions, Seroussi was just awarded the 2018 Israel Prize in the musicology category. He has also won the Joel Engel Prize for Life Achievement in Jewish Music Research, Tel Aviv Municipality

Dr. Seroussi received his PhD in Music from UCLA. He has held visiting professor and fellowship appointments across the globe, including at the University of Chicago, Dartmouth College, and Harvard University. He has previously served as president of the Israel Musicological Society, and as the president of the Israel Committee of the International Music Council, UNESCO.

About Texas Early Music Project

Texas Early Music Project is an Austin-based professional ensemble dedicated to presenting and advancing the art of Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and early Classical music through performance, recordings, and educational outreach. Devoted to performance of early music from 10^th-century chant to early 18^th-century Romanticism, TEMP offers an annual concert series featuring world-class vocalists and instrumentalists performing pieces from many cultures in authentic period style on period instruments.

Sponsored by: Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies; Department of Middle Eastern Studies; The Tocker Foundation; Humanities Institute through the Viola S. Hoffman and George W. Hoffman Lectureship in the Liberal Arts and Fine Arts; LLILAS – Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies; UT Libraries

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