Music

Jewish music has multiple inspirations

In the religious world:

- we sing in the synagogue;

- The very religious Hasidim sing and dance in their community life.

Beautiful religious songs have passed through centuries and cultures, such as the "Kol Nidrei" (a Judeo-Aramaic song that opens the evening service of Yom Kippur) or various nigunim (religious songs, a form of vocal music).

In the secular world:

popular, as was the case with Klezmer music

or even taken up by classical musicians

On the right is Kol Nidrei ( It means : all wishes in Aramaic), a work by Max Bruch for cello and orchestra written in 1880 for the Jewish community of Liverpool.

In the treatment of Hebrew melody, the cello imitates the voice of the Hazan, who sings the liturgy in the synagogue.

On the left, Prokofiev, "Overture on Jewish Themes" is a chamber music work for clarinet, string quartet and piano, composed in 1919, commissioned in New York, where he had just arrived.

This is the first artistic stylization of Klezmer music.

Choral Symphony No. 3 (excerpt), Kaddish,

by Leonard Bernstein.

It refers to the prayer sung in every synagogue during the service for a dead person.

It is dedicated to the memory of John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.

The Klezmer Festival in Safed, Israel, is very popular, taking place every year in August.

In this small town, still untouched by modernity, Klezmer music takes over every street corner, and is also present on 5 stages in various locations around the town.

where groups play their traditional music, adapted to modern tastes.

And those who have revived Klezmer.

Giora Feidman, an Argentinian born in 1936, was a master of the clarinet.

And more contemporary David Krakauer, also clarinettist, who makes the link between Klezmer and jazz.