Ashkenazi music in France at concerts and synagogues: state of the art, origins, influences, traditions and (re-)creations
au concert ou à la synagogue : état des lieux, origines, influences, traditions et (re-)créations" which will take place on October 20, 2024 at the MAHJ and on October 21, 2024 at the Inalco (PLC).
An initiative of the Groupe d'études orientales, slaves et néo-helléniques (UR 1340), the Institut Européen des Musiques Juives (IEMJ) and the Institut de recherche en musicologie (IReMus - UMR 8223) in partnership with INALCO, JEM Copernic, MAHJ and Nitsa with the support of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) and the Henriette Halphen Foundation, under the aegis of the Fondation du Judaïsme Français.
Organizing committee: Alexandre Cerveux (IRHT), Jérôme Cler (Sorbonne Université - IReMus), Alice Mazen (Sorbonne Université - IReMus), Hervé Roten (IEMJ) and Michèle Tauber (Université de Strasbourg - GEO)
Program:
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Auditorium du MAHJ, Hôtel de Saint-Aignan, 71 Rue du Temple, 75003, Paris
Yiddish song and klezmer music
9:30am: Public welcome.
9:45am: Presentation of the day
From theater to the revival of Yiddish song in the seventies and beyond
10am: Between stage and score: the music of interwar Yiddish theater in Paris (1919-1939), by Michèle Fornhoff-Levitt
10:30-11:30am: The revival of Yiddish song from the 1970s. Round table with Laurent Grynszpan, Michèle Tauber and Talila
From Yiddish choirs of yesterday and today to Yiddish song in the 21ste century
11:45am: Yiddish choirs in France. Round table with Jean Golgevit and Jacinta
12:20-13:00: Yiddish song in France in the XXIe century: the rising generation. Round table with Judith Marx and Elsa Signorile
Lunch break
Klezmer music in France
2:30pm: An attempt not to define klezmer music, by Léa Platini
3pm: Parisian klezmer, by Denis Cuniot
3:30pm: Specificities of interpretation and appropriation of klezmer music by the Parisian music scene, by Alice Mazen
Klezmer music and its protagonists, between tradition and creation
4:15pm: Transmission of klezmer music today in France. Round table with Marthe Desrosières, Guillaume Dettmar, Marine Goldwaser, Léa Platini and Charles Rappoport
17h-17h45 :Approach to stylistic fusions for original klezmer music. Roundtable with David JewSalsa, David Konopnicki, Michel Schick and Pierre Wekstein
6pm - Concert with Jacinta, Michèle Tauber, Adrian Iordan and the Pletzl Bandits
Monday, October 21, 2024
Inalco Auditorium, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013, Paris
Asshkenazi liturgical music
9h : Public welcome.
9:15am: Presentation of the day
The Ashkenazi rite, from its origins to the present
9:30am: Jewish rite and song in northern France in the Middle Ages, by Alexandre Cerveux
10am: Synagogal music in Paris at the time of the first consistorial temple (1822-1874), by Gérard Ganvert
10:30am: The consistorial rite - from the inauguration of the Grande Synagogue de La Victoire (1874) to the present day, by Hervé Roten
Bare-voice singing
11:30am: The Alsatian nusah / The Alsatian nusah, by Hanna Englard
12am: Nusah - a system of systems / Nusah - a system of systems, by Judit Frigyesi
Lunch break
Cantorial practices within different Ashkenazi rite streams
14:15: Round table with Jonathan Blum, Emmanuel Chaze, François Garaï and Haïm Nissenbaum
The future of the Ashkenazi rite in France: transmission, learning and evolution
16h: Round table with Alexandre Cerveux, Bruno Fraitag, Hector Sabo and Emmanuelle Souffan
17h: Conclusion of the day and symposium
Concert
20h: "Les grands airs de l'année liturgique ashkénaze"
Concert at the rue Copernic synagogue - 24 Rue Copernic, 75116 Paris
With the synagogue choir (conductor: Didier Seutin)
Tickets can be booked at the following link: https://my.weezevent.com/concert-ashkenaze
