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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
| Sunday, November 22, 1998 | |
| 8:30 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:15 | Welcome Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, President, HUC-JIR |
| 9:30-12:30 | Discovering The Birnbaum Collection:
Lectures with Musical Illustrations by SSM Students Dr. Mark Kligman, Chair Professor John Planer "Introduction to the Birnbaum Collection" Professor Eliyahu Schleifer "Dreams and Melodies: Tunes for the Priestly Benediction in the Birnbaum Collection" Professor Edwin Seroussi "Unexpected Contributions of The Birnbaum Collection to the Study of Sephardic Liturgical Music" Professor Philip Bohlman "Self-Reflecting Self: Eduard Birnbaum & The Age of Jewish Music Collection" |
| 12:45-1:45 | Lunch
Greetings Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, Chancellor, HUC-JIR |
| 2:00-3:15 | Investigating The Birnbaum Collection John Planer, Chair Professor Israel Adler "The Eduard Birnbaum Collection: An Unexhausted Challenge for Jewish Musicology" Dr. Neil Levin "Shlomo (Kashten) Weintraub: A Precursor in the Development of Modern Synagogue Music" |
| Jewish Music History I* Professor Eliyahu Schleifer "From the Bible to Hassidism" | |
| Cantorial Workshop Dr. Mark Kligman "Teaching Jewish Music History: Printed Materials and Recordings." Resource material for teaching Adult Education will be presented. | |
| 3:30-5:30 | Performances from The Birnbaum Collection: Recital presented by SSM students and the Collegium Musicum of New York University This recital will feature the earliest notated examples of Jewish liturgical music, including melodies found in 18th century manuscripts, choral music, and cantorial recitatives. Music employing the unique style of the meshorerim, a boy soprano and bass musical assistants, will also be demonstrated. |
| 5:45 | Ma'ariv Service Cantor Don Gurney |
| 6:00 | Dinner in Honor of the SSM Faculty Emeriti Award presentations by Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, President; Cantor Israel Goldstein, Director, SSM; and Dr. Paul M. Steinberg, Special Assistant to the President |
| 8:00 | SOLD OUT!
Celebrating the Past and Present: A Jubilee Concert Cantor Lori Corrsin and Joyce Rosenzweig, Co-chairs This concert will feature choral works from The Birnbaum Collection, including compositions and arrangements by Eduard Birnbaum, and the premiere of new works by composers Jack Gottlieb, Stephen Richards, Benjie Ellen Schiller, Eliyahu Schleifer, William Sharlin, Bonia Shur and Ben Steinberg, performed by SSM students and alumni with Joyce Rosenzweig, pianist. SOLD OUT! |
| Monday, November 23, 1998 | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Shacharit Service Cantor Sharon Kohn and Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, Dean, HUC-JIR/New York D'var Torah, Dr. Norman J. Cohen, Provost, HUC-JIR |
| 10:30-12:30 |
The Changing Role of the Shaliach Tzibbur Benjie Ellen Schiller, Chair Reverend Virgil C. Funk Professor Lawrence A. Hoffman Cantor Sheldon F. Merel Cantor Sarah J. Sager Cantor Debra Stein-Davidson |
| 12:45-2:00 | Lunch Greetings Rabbi-Cantor Jon R. Haddon |
| 2:15-4:15 |
The School of Sacred Music:Scholarship, Traditional Chazzanut, Composition Dr. Philip E. Miller, Chair Cantor Bruce Ruben, Ph.D. "History of the School of Sacred Music" Professor Eliyahu Schleifer "The Scholarship of Idelsohn, Ephros, and Werner" Cantor Israel Goldstein "Israel Alter" Dr. Mark Kligman "Composers of the SSM: Isadore Freed" |
| 6:30-8:00 | Jewish Music History II* Professor Edwin Seroussi "Sephardic Music" |
Most recent update 14 Oct 1998 Copyright © 1998 Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
