Alphabetical Index to Website Entries: S
Sabbath Hela Veckan
Sabbath Hela Veckan is an instrumental sextet based in Sweden with members from Sweden, the US and Finland. Formed in 1989 their repetoire
is "a musical and visual experience in Klezmer, Gypsy and east-European music."
http://www.sami.se/art/pbothen/homee1.htm
Sabin Family Music Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary
The Music Collections support the curriculum of the H.L. Miller Cantorial School. Besides a general music reference collection, the library includes more than 5,500 sound recordings, extensive collections of printed music, particularly in cantorial music, a large Yiddish sheet music collection, and cantorial and folk manuscripts and sheet music. There are also collections of classical music with Jewish themes and Jewish popular music. Of special note are the special collections of Herbert Fromm and Solomon Rosowsky. Published catalogs of these two collections are available from JTS. The catalog of the special collection of Max Wohlberg is scheduled to be published. For more information contact Music Archivist, Eliott Kahn.
http://www.jtsa.edu/library/collect/colmus.html
Sabramusic
Sabranet, a site that attempts to be a complete guide to Israeli-related
Internet sites, was created by Eyal Dunkel in 1995. The main page connects
to links on Israeli music files with excerpts from popular Israeli music
in Real Audio file format.
http://www.sabra.net/sabramusic.html
Ilene Safyan
See: Sheera Recordings
Lazare Saminsky
A brief paragraphy about Lazare Saminsky.
http://www.xrefer.com/entry/357218
Simon Sargon
The Jewish Indian-born composer's biography and a listing of published works are included. Especially nice is the listing of compositions with "first page" scans of the score as a sample of the work. Mp3 technology is employed for the sound samples.
http://www.simonsargon.com/
Satlah
According to the website, Satlah's music is "a unique blend of jazz, world music and avant-garde with a strong Jewish/middle eastern flavor." The band, based in New York City, has a new CD called "Exodus" recorded live at Tonic in New York’s Lower East Side, and a first CD called "Satlah" which features John Zorn as a guest artist. Satlah is an Israeli slang term... John Zorn is producing their music on the Tzaddik label. In the past year, Satlah has performed at the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland, the Klezmer Express Festival in Verona, Italy, the MIMI New Music Festival in Marseilles, France and at a concert in London along with John Zorn for BBC Radio. They also performed at the Chicago Cultural Center through the Israeli Consulate and the Washington D.C. Jewish Music Festival, according to their spokesperson, Danny Zamir. The press has reviewed them favorably. Contact is Tel: 201 - 222-5755
or email: satlah@satlah.com
http://www.satlah.com/
Basya Schecter
Pharoah's Daughter, is a band featuring Basya Schechter, Tracey Love-Wright, Martha Colby, Jen Gilleran, Jarrod Cagwin, Tomer Tzur, and Benoir. The website features press reviews of concerts and their cd's. The links lead to places to purchase the cds. The new music blends Jewish traditions with world beat music.
http://www.pharaohsdaughter.com/
Benjie Ellen Schiller
American cantor. First woman professor at Hebrew Union College School of Sacred Music. Born in New York on April 14, 1958, she studied Theory and Composition at Boston University, graduating in 1980. She became a cantor, studying at the School of Sacred Music of Hebrew Union College in New York. Cantor Schiller composes and has received numerous commissions. She also directs "Beged Kefet," a philanthropic choral group.
Arnold Schoenberg
The grandson of Arnold Schoenberg has mounted an extensive website devoted to the composer. An excellent source of academic materials.
http://www.primenet.com/~randols/schoenberg/schoenlinks.html
School of Sacred Music:
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
The School of Sacred Music trains cantors for the Reform movement.
http://huc.edu/catalog/smny.html
Jacobo Schkliar
Jacobo Schkliar, who served as chazzan and organist in Buenos Aires, Argentina is honored in a website that features a brief biography and some sound files of his recordings.
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Opera/7929/
Second Avenue Online
The Spielberg-funded digital archive website set up by New York University's Center for Advanced Technology on Yiddish Theatre. The website includes a history and chronology of Yiddish Theater in America, with links to brief biographies of key figures and some photos. There are listings of archival institutions that hold materials on Yiddish theatre. Many of those libraries, museums and archives include sheet music or sound recordings. Most of the histories online are written by a one or two individuals and there are few footnotes link to names of resources from the archive. However this is a fun resource for students. Eventually the site will include oral histories, manuscripts and scores, letters, photos, and will feature an interactive 3-D "walk through" of a theater. The project originated with Ann Ronnell, (one of Hollywood's first successful female lyricist and composer) who wanted to create a project on Jewish composers and lyricists of theater and film, (according to the September 17, 1999 Jewish Week). New York University also houses the Sholom Secunda Archives.
http://yap.cat.nyu.edu/
Elaine Serling
American. Born in Detroit, Michigan. Wayne State University, in nursing. An experienced educator and singer/songwriter. In 2001, she won the "Jewish Woman in the Arts" award for contributions as a songwriter, performer and Jewish educator. She has made an impact not only in the Midwest, giving concerts to children and adults for over thirty years, but has published a song book, Sing and Celebrate: Jewish Songs for All Occasions (Danza Publications, 1987) with a CD available. Elaine's songs teach about Jewish life and themes in an upbeat, yet non-insipid fashion, with varied arrangements. While most of the songs are in English, she mixes Hebrew and English in holiday and other songs. Her second CD is "Join the Circle" (Danza, 2002). Elaine is an ASCAP and published songwriter. Elaine Serling lives in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Elaine teaches nursery school, creative dance and confirmation classes. She has served as a choir director in the Detroit area. A Summer, 2000 article in Jewish Woman Magazine (published by Jewish Women International) stated: "With a flare for today's musical tastes, Serling engages her audience with her warmth, energy, and imagination. By combining original Jewish songs with traditional Jewish music, she pleases every musical palate." Serling has a very pleasant, strong voice, and her CD's appeal to young children, from toddler's to early elementary years. Her website contains clips for listening from her CDs. Elaine can be contacted by email: elaine@elainesterling.com
www.elaineserling.com
Einat Serouf
Israeli pop singer and entertainer. She performs internationally and sings in several languages including Swedish, Hebrew and Ladino. The website has only 3 clips, a few photos, and is a bit spartan on information, but her voice is very strong and pleasant, and there is contact info.
http://www.einatsarouf.co.il/einat/
Seth Rogovoy Reviews
Periodic concert and CD reviews by a journalist.
http://www.berkshireweb.com/rogovoy/klezmer/index.html
Shabbas Comes Alive
Simcha Band. Features Avraham Solomon and Kol Zimra. Also features the NCSY All Boys Choir. A portion of the proceeds of the recording benefits NCSY. Website includes some photos, credits and a single album sample.
http://www.shabbascomesalive.com/index.html
Shabbat--Friday Night Zmirot in Audio
Dovid Teitelbaum has made Shabbat Zmirot available in real audio files. The website is a project of Camp S'dei Chemed International. They are also adding stories from the weekly Parsha. Look for more additions to this site.
http://www.campsci.com/rvideo/friday_night.htm
Shalshelet
Cantor Terry Horowit (vocals, guitar), Marcia Bronstein (piano), and Wendy Morrison (accordions, whistles, concertina, banjo, vocals). The trio, formed in 2002, specializes in Jewish liturgical and inspirational music in Hebrew and English, and some original compositions of Cantor Horowit.
http://www.shalsheletmusic.com
Shamash: Arts
Shamash contains a directory of sites of Jewish interest. The arts section includes sites of interest in Jewish music.
http://www.shamash.org/arts/
Shawn's Kugel
This site provides scores of klezmer music directly on the web with
pdf files. It also includes links to websites of klezmer bands in the Seattle
and greater northwest area and a few recipes. (presumably to eat after you play the music).
http://members.aol.com/shawnkugel/kugel.html
Sheera Recordings
Sheera Recordings, the duo of Ilene Safyan and Margie Rosenthal, has a website about their group, philosophy and recordings. They work extensively with children and have been enthusiastically received. These women are excellent educators as well as Jewish music performers.
http://www.sheeramusic.com/
Sheet music
Ari Davidow at his Klez Shack site has amassed a list of sheet music publishers and vendors involved with klezmer and chassidic music.
http://www.klezmershack.com/contacts/klezvendors.html#vendors
Shema Yisrael Music Section
A media intensive site, this page is a project of the Shema Yisrael Torah Network. It consists of a selection of webpages by various artists
which provide a listing of their books and records with their contents. All sorts of music including children's, religious, Yiddish and Israeli
and American Jewish secular songs are included. The jukebox experienced difficulties frequently.
http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/music/
Naomi Shemer
Naomi Shemer was born in Israel on Kvuzat Kinneret in 1931. She is a prolific composer and singer. One of her most famous songs is "Jerusalem of Gold".
brief Naomi Shemer bio
Naomi Shemer bio
songs arranged for choir
PDF file of Jerusalem of Gold in English
Naomi Shemer album-2 CD set from Hed Arzi
Laurence Sherr
Laurence Sherr is Composer-in-Residence and Assistant Professor of Music at Kennesaw State University in metropolitan Atlanta. Besides composition and teaching, Professor Sherr also is active in a local Atlanta klezmer band, Oy Klezmer!
http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~lsherr/bio.html
Benjie Ellen Schiller
Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller is both the first woman to be a full time faculty member at the School of Sacred Music at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York and a composer of sacred music. Born in New York on April 14, 1958 to Miriam and Nathan Schiller, Cantor Schiller studied voice and composition, and received a B. M. in Theory and Composition at Boston University in 1980. She continued graduate studies there in voice and choral conducting, and shortly thereafter, married Rabbi Lester Bronstein in June, 1981.
She attended the School of Sacred Music of Hebrew Union College in New York and was invested in 1987. Her Master Thesis composition was "Life Song Cycle." Cantor Schiller also became a full time faculty member and taught courses in cantillation, basic nusach (prayer modes) and the in-depth study of repertoire for Shabbat. Her liturgical compositions "V'yeetayu" was featured on the American Public Radio program Days of Awe: Music for the Jewish High Holy Days in 1991. "Zeh Dodi" (1991), "May You Live to See Your World Fulfilled" (1997) and "One Generation Goes" (1997), were published by Transcontinental Music.
Cantor Schiller has also received many commissions from synagogues, organizations and institutions including "Mi Shebeirach" (1988), "Shabbat Evening Service" (1991), "Hannah" (1995) performed in Merkin Hall, New York, "L'chaim U'l'shalom" (1998) and "B'or'cha Nireh Or"(1999).
Cantor Schiller performs and teaches widely including co-director of the philanthropic choral group, "Beged Kefet." She has appeared as a classical soprano soloist with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the John Oliver Chorale, the Boston Zamir Chorale and Sine Nomine of New York. She was also a fellow of Synagogue 2000 in California. She has appeared at the North American Jewish Choral Festival, at congregations around the northeastern United States and with the Zimmerman Institute (1997).
Recordings include two with "Beged Kefet" with songs such as "Ki B'Simcha Tetzeyu/Go Out in Joy" (1991), musical cassettes to accompany the Reconstructionist Kol Haneshamah home prayerbook, Shirim Uv'rachot, and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations's Come let Us Welcome the Sabbath. She is a featured cantor in Yamim Noraim, (1995) recording of High Holy Day music published by Transcontinental, and also appeared in A Taste of Eternity with the Western Wind musical ensemble.
Cantor Schiller lectures on Jewish music including topics on spirituality, music as a path to healing, stylistics of congregational singing, and trends of modern synagogue music, medieval Jewish music, and the role of music in the Jewish life cycle. She has written on the topic of the development of Reform music and on the future of Jewish sacred music including "The hymnal as an index of musical change in Reform synagogues" in Sacred Sound and Social Change: Liturgical Music in Jewish and Christian Experience,(1992).
Cantor Schiller serves as the high holy day cantor at Bet Am Shalom Synagogue of White Plains, New York where her husband is Rabbi. They have three children, Liba, Yoni, and Avi.
By J. Pinnolis. 03/2000.
Seeds of Sun
Seeds of Sun, a jazz improv Quintet from Israel performs widely throughout the US and Israel. The Kennedy Center Millenium Stage performance held in November, 2002 has an online video of the performance. Their concerts feature contemporary jazz and arrangements of popular Israeli music.
http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=SEEDSOFSUN#
Shir Appeal
Tufts University's Co-ed Jewish A Cappella put together a CD: Man, Woman, and Shewitz which sold out. But the group is available for appearances.
http://ase.tufts.edu/shirappeal/CD1.htm
Shir Hamaalot
An 8-voice semiprofessional chamber choir, which performs Jewish liturgical music in Montreal (and beyond?)has recently been formed. Shir Hamaalot has been around for about a year, and gave a first concert at Montreal's Shaare Zion Congregation in June 2003. Since then they performed at two other synagogues, and took part in a commemorative concert for September 11th at McGill's Anglican Theological College. For info, call Jerry at 514-737-6600, or email: shir_hamaalot@canada.com
Shirona
"Shirona, a native New Yorker, was raised in Israel in a musical, cultured evironment, and started performing at an early age. After serving in the
Israeli army she returned to the United States and starred in the nationally acclaimed Israeli-American Musical Review "On Silver Wings". After taking time off to marry and raise a family, Shirona returned to the Jewish Music scene with a newfound interest in New Age and Jewish Spirituality. She began composing original melodies to the ancient texts of the Bible and Prayer Book, in Hebrew, using multi-cultural musical influences, such as Celtic, Eastern European, Middle Eastern and American." She currently resides with her family in Rye, NY. He CD Judaic Love Songs received wide ranging acclaim and received reviews in The Journal of Synagogue Music - Fall 2001 and Jewish Week, August 10, 2001.
Shmuel Mashiach Orchestra
A Chicago based simcha band which performs around the midwest area. The band considers their orchestrations and style updated. The site lists contact information, a history of the band and a list of their repertoire.
http://www.jewishbands.com/
Shofar
Mounted by Matthew H. Fields, this page was intended to explain the
history and sound of the shofar. Dr. Fields used the shofar as the basis of a 1992 composition.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~fields/shofar1.htm
Sarah Shoham
Israeli composer of choral works.
Wrote "The Little Prince" premiered in January, 2002.
Jerusalem Post article on events of music in Sde Boker.
A Short Bibliography of Sephardic Music
Judith Cohen, a Toronto-based musicologist and specialist in Sephardic music, has compiled a brief discography and bibliography.
http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/9903.cohen_j.sephardic.html
Shulmusic
Shulmusic is a website devoted to music of the synagogue and all Jewish liturgical music. The aim of the site is to become a global resource for Jewish liturgical music. Musical scores for various holidays and events are provided online. Stephen Simpson with help from Dan Jacobs has been spending quite a bit of time working on getting the "Blue Book" on the web. His ambitious Shelf-to-Shul project attempts to digitize Jewish liturgical music and make it available to the world.
http://shulmusic.org/
Betty Silberman
Betty Silberman, a dynamic Yiddish and cabaret singer has a website listing her recent CD's and contact information for performances. Based in Boston.
http://www.bettysilberman.com/
Beverly Sills
Opera Star and philanthropist, Chairperson of Lincoln Center, and for many years, director of New York City Opera. Debut with the San Francisco Opera in 1953 and New York City opera in 1955. Joined the board of the Metropolitan Opera in 1991 where she had debuted in 1975. Beverly Sills, affectionately known to millions of fans as "Bubbles", is a classical high coloratura soprano with an incredible range, flexibility and poise. She sang a repertoire of over 70 operas. She is the recipient of the French Order of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the New York City Handel Medallion, and a Kennedy Center Honor among her many achievements and honors. Born in Brooklyn, NY, as Belle Miriam Silverman in 1929.
Article/Interview with Beverly Sills
Beverly Sills
Governor's Commission Honoring Beverly Sills/New York State Council on the Arts webpage
Sheila Silver
American composer, largely of classical chamber and large scale music and film scores. Wrote the opera The Thief of Love. Winner of several prestigious composition prizes including the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Composer Award and the ISCM National Composers Competition. Professor of Music at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Website has a list of works, recordings and reviews.
http://www.hummingbirdfilms.com/sheilasilver/index.html
Simply Tsfat
A very interesting group of 3 Breslev Chassidim, who tour the US and Canada widely, but live in Sfat Israel. The instrumentation is two guitars and one violin. The have two recordings "Be Happy" and "Fresh Air". They also sing. To sample some music, http://www.judaism.com/display.asp?type=music&uniqueTitle=95571 on real audio.
http://www.simplytsfat.com/
Peri Smilow
American singer. Peri Smilow is singer/guitarist who performs synagogue and other religious music in a contemporary setting. She has also taken part in the Freedom Music Project, which features freedom music from the traditions of both Jews and Blacks. Peri Smilow, located in Boston, tries to repair relations between the two groups by putting activity and actions together. "Sign of the Dove Music" is Peri's record label. To buy direct from Peri's label: P.O. Box 3083 Cambridge MA. 02238
http://www.perismilow.com/
Allan Soberman
Canadian Singer-songwriter, centered in Toronto. Involved primarily in the popular and folk music field, Soberman produced an album as tribute to his father, Cantor Morris Soberman, reproducing melodies particular to his families' tradition. He also completed an entire CD which encompasses Jewish prayers, entitled “Searching for My Voice”.
http://www.sobermanmusic.com
Soul Encounter
Arnie Singer, singer-songwriter has put together a website and CD. Part of the Manhattan Jewish experience. Religous, liturgical. Music in the renewal-popular style, with some more "traditional" Carlebach tunes. Singer is soloists at the Manhattan Jewish Experience on the West Side. 137 W86th St. (between Amsterdam and Columbus)in New York City.
http://www.soulencounter.com
Tanja Solnik
Tanja Solnik sings traditional Jewish lullabies in Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew.
http://www.tanjasolnik.com/
Song in Hassidic Life
Velvel Pasternak has written an extensive article which is published on the Tara Music website. It provides an overview and history of various types of chassidic music and its role in the Jewish life and customs of that community.
http://www.tara.com/
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Sounding the Shofar
The Magnes Museum has mounted a musical web exhibit demonstrating traditional shofar blasts. http://www.jfed.org/magnes/shofar.htm
Sounds Write Productions
Provides information and distribution of the recordings, song books and videos of Debbie Friedman, Julie Silver, and Randee Friedman. Fans of these Jewish women songwriter/singers will find this a very convenient site. Children's music is designated by a special icon.
http://www.soundswrite.com/
Francesco Spagnolo
Italian musicologist specializing in Jewish Italian music and active in Yuval, Italia. See: Italian Jewish Musical Traditions, under record reviews.
Johanna Spector
Born in Lativa in 1920. Ethnomusicologist. Came to the US in 1947 and taught at Jewish Theological Seminary. Founded Department of Ethnomusicology in 1962. Collected an archive of thousands of recordings of Jews from very varied backgrounds.
Srul Irving Glick
One of Canada's distinguished classical composers, Srul Irving Glick is also a prolific composer of Jewish music with special devotion to music of the synagogue. His website includes listings of recorded music, his published works and complete repertoire as well as this online biography.
http://www.snapmedia.com/srulirvingglick/bio/body_bio.html
Srul Irving Glick, Canadian Music Centre
The Canadian Music Centre includes a directory of composers that includes an online biography and list of selected works. These websites have both English and French versions.
http://www.musiccentre.ca/CMC/dac_rca/eng/f_/Glick_Srul_Irving.html
Ben Steinberg
Ben Steinberg is a well-known contemporary synagogue composer with numerous awards and achievements, living in Toronto and currently serving as Director of Music at Temple Sinai in Toronto, Canada. Steinberg has composed for orchestra, chamber ensemble, chorus and solo voice. Many of his works are published by Transcontinental in New York.
http://www.musiccentre.ca/CMC/dac_rca/eng/p_/Steinberg_Ben.html
Adriaan Stoet and Tjako van Schie
Adriaan Stoet, violin & Tjako van Schie, piano. "Shtil, di nakht iz oysgeshternt-- Yiddish music from the ghettos and concentration camps" is the name of their CD. It has selections such as Peat Bog Soldier, Es Brent, Yisrolik and other Yiddish and European songs from WWII and the Holocaust.
http://users.castel.nl/~schic02/yiddish.htm
Robert Stern
Robert Stern, Professor of Theory and Composition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has written several Jewish thematic compositions. Faculty biography at University website.
http://www.umass.edu/music-dance/faclist2.html#rstern
Allan Sternfield, piano; See: Jerusalem Lyric Trio.
Deborah Strauss
Highly regarded klezmer violinist. Also accordionist and vocalist. Studied at violin, Rutgers University. Ethnomusicology, University of Chicago. Member, Klezmer Conservatory Band. Strauss/Warshauer Duo. Leads workshops and classes in the United States and Canada as well as Europe. Faculty, KlezKamp and KlezKanada. Amsterdam International Yiddish Festival and other major Jewish music festivals in Europe and and North America. Discography includes: Josh Waletzky's "Crossing the Shadows, 2002; Sweet Home Bukovina Oriente Musik, RIEN CD 13, 1998;Klezmer Music A Marriage of Heaven and Earth Ellipsis Arts CD4090, 1996; Kapelye On the Air Shanachie, 1995 (LC 5762);The Singing Waltz Omega OCD 3027, 1996;
Michoel Streicher
A leading Orthodox performer, originally from Boro Park, but now residing in Israel.
http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/music/mstreicher/index.htm
Barbara Streisand--
Superstar of American pop music, film, music director, Broadway actress, comedian and activist,-- Ms. Streisand's official website contains extensive biographical information and chronological lists of her films, awards, career and a discography. The Streisand Foundation page lists recipients of grants. Ms. Streisand is surpassed only by Elvis Presley in the number of Gold Albums sold. Blessed with the incredible voice, she remains one of our favorite singers.
http://www.barbrastreisand.com/
Elizabeth Swados
Composer, playwright, orchestrator, director, and author of 6 children's books. Born February 5, 1951 in Buffalo, NY. She went to Bennington College studying classical music. In the 1960s she was an activist playing folk music at political events and in coffeehouses. Winner of 3 Obie Awards and 5 Tony Award nominations. She won Outer Critics Circle Awards, a PEN Citation, and an Anne Frank National Foundation for Jewish Culture award. She also received a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim, a Covenant and a Spielberg grant. Composed music for the American Repertory Theatre including The Merchant of Venice, The Good Woman of Setzuan and Jacques and His Master. She wrote some Broadway shows, incidental music for film and television productions. Over a twenty-five year period, she's composed music for theater including Runaways (1978), Doonesbury (1983), Rap Master Ronnie (1984) and incidental music for The Cherry Orchard and Agamemnon both in 1977. She premiered "Missionaries" in November, 1997. In "The Hating Pot", Swados directed a play dealing with racism. Of that she said:" I was distressed by what seemed to be a resurgence of blatant anti-Semitism and race hatred in our country, and particularly in young people. It seemed to me that words and ideas were being thrown around without any sense of history or the ramifications. Since I am a Jew, I was particularly sensitive to the relations between Blacks and Jews which have reached an unnecessary boiling point. But I found that the name-calling, stereotyping and shallow thinking applied to all outsiders - anyone strange or unconventional. Therefore, I used my knowledge of the roots of anti-Semitism as a basis for opening up a dialogue in improvisation, music, composition and movement, and hoped that many kids from all over the world would help me understand why we hate." (from http://www.usanetwork.com/functions/justone/universality2.html, accessed, 11/03/02)
She writes Jewish-themed music, basing some musical theater works on Biblical stories, such as "A Circus" based on Job, "Esther" and "Haggadah". In her oratorio, "Jerusalem", she attempts to combine liturgy, poetry and biblical texts. Her CD "Bible Women", ommissioned by Ma'yan in 1994, received tremendous interest in the press. Her film credits include "The Adventures of Sebastian Cole" (1999). in 2002, she was appointed to serve as the Rabbi Sally J. Priesand Visiting Professor of Jewish Women's Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion where she will direct a production of "The Haggadah". Her children's book Dreamtective is being turned into a Disney production. Her new works include Hey, You Come Here, a new children's book, and The Three Gods, a music work based on Judith in the Bible.
Alicia Svigals
American violinist, teacher. She was born in the Bronx, N.Y. on January 8, 1963. Graduated from Brown University in ethnomusicology. Joined the "Klezmatics" in 1986 and began concertizing in the United States with the klezmer group. In 1997, Ms. Svigals produced a solo album, "Fidl". She joined the all female group "Mikveh" in 1998.
Symposium on Jewish Music, University of Edinburgh
A conference site for the Symposium on Jewish Music held at the University of Edinburgh held in October, 1996 with a listing of conference precedings. Links to past events such as the ESEM European Seminar in Ethnomusicology, held in Oxford in 1994, with full text of selected papers presented are archived online at this site. Papers of Jehoash Hirshberg and Susana Weich-Shahak of Hebrew University and are available fulltext.
http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/colloquia/conferences/
Sylvain Elzam
Cantor Sylvain Elzam has released six CDs of music including Piyyutim, Selichos, with chazzanos for Sephardic and Ashkenazic nusach traditions. He also has recorded some songs in Ladino.
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/7468/mycd.htm
Synagogenchor Zurich
Robert Braunschweig, director. Bernard San, Chazan.
Language of site: German. The amazing thing about this website is that they've digitized their standard repertoire to make it available to their members. You can view or print from this digital music collection at their website. Website includes a schedule of their concerts and synagogue work.
http://www.synagogenchor.ch/