High Holy Days in a Conservative Synagogue
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L’dor vador: From generation to generation
By RSA Guest Blogger, August 14, 2013 3:28 pm
One family’s ancestor remembered…a shared culture preserved.
The music of the traditional synagogue in America has strong roots in the culture and shtetls of 19th and early 20th century Eastern Europe. Like many of the greats of the Golden Era of Hazzanut Cantor Gedalie Bargad was a gifted hazzan who grew out of the chassidic environment.
Cantor Stephen Texon
By Recorded Sound Archives, July 29, 2013 10:22 am
Equally at home on the opera stage and in the synagogue, Stephen Texon’s successful and distinguished singing career spans decades.
Spin Doctors: FAU restoring children’s records damaged by Superstorm Sandy
By In the News, July 1, 2013 5:41 pm
By Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel
June 30, 2013
A pile of stained, mildewed debris from Superstorm Sandy has turned into a nostalgic treasure trove for Florida Atlantic University.
Mischa Elman
By Recorded Sound Archives, April 19, 2013 8:43 am
Six new Mischa Elman compilations from the Recorded Sound Archives at FAU Libraries
The Judaica Sound Archives at FAU Libraries has created six digitized compilations from 77 original 78 rpm recordings of world famous Jewish violinist, Mischa Elman.
All these recordings were originally produced between 1906 and 1921.
Click here for Mischa Elman’s biographical notes.
Click here to hear Mischa Elman’s digitized recordings at the Judaica Sound Archives.
Click here to see a video of Mischa Elman playing Humoresque.
This film short, produced in 1926 by Vitaphone Sound Pictures, demonstrated a new technology as innovative and exciting in its day as the first i-phone. A year later the first feature-length talking motion picture, “The Jazz Singer,” put an end to silent movies.
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