Sephardic Songs: Myths and Realities
Presented by Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
Description
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
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
About Texas Early Music Project
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
Date and Time
Location
Bates Recital Hall (Butler School of Music) 2406 Robert Dedman Drive Austin Texas 78712