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Mark Kligman

Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music

Director of Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music

Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology

Musicology Director of Graduate Studies

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

2539 Schoenberg Hall OMC#212

Los Angeles, CA 90095

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American Culture and the Jewish Experience in Music: Nov 5-7



OPENING EVENT:  World Premier of “David’s Quilt”



Sunday, November 5, 2017 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Stephen S Wise Temple

Free Admission



The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and The Max Hellman Institute of New Jewish Music will present the world premiere of “David’s Quilt,” an original libretto about biblical King David“.



This performance features the premiere of a new work by Los Angeles based composers and UCLA faculty and students working together with the Max Helfman Institute. David's Quilt is the result of 15 very different composers joining together to tell the story of David through their own artistic lens. The Quilt explores different episodes of David's life, composed in a variety of musical idioms. TO RSVP TO DAVID'S QUILT, CLICK HERE.<http://bit.ly/DavidsQuilt>



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CONFERENCE:



America has offered the Jews a chance at unlimited musical expression, from sacred song to the stage, screen, and concert hall. This conference covers some major intersections between Jewish creativity and American opportunity.



Several panels will highlight some key facets of the Jewish-American musical experience. In the great immigrant wave (1880s-1920s), Jews brought older and newer forms of sacred music, Yiddish folk, popular, and theater song, and wedding music of the klezmer. Assimilation accelerated change, with recent revitalization in our times. Stressing local roots, two panels will cover Hollywood topics. On Monday Nov. 6, a morning panel will combine scholars and industry insiders to celebrate the work of the pioneering film composer Erich Korngold. In the evening Daniel Goldmark will chronicle the impact of the classic Al Jolson 1927 film, covering“100 Years of The Jazz Singer.”



MONDAY, Nov. 6, 2017 | UCLA Luskin Conference Center



9:00-9:15 Welcoming Remarks: Mark Kligman and Todd Presner

9:15-10:30 Session 1: Jews and the LA Music Industry

Chair: David Lefkowitz (UCLA)

Bryan Gilliam (Duke University) “Erich Korngold’s Double Exile in Hollywood”

Panel Discussion with:

Holley Replogle-Wong (UCLA)

Richard Friedman (Richard Friedman Music, Inc.)

Michael Sigman (Writer and Media Consultant)



10:45-11:30 Session 2: Acknowledgement of Lowell Milken Gift

Speakers: Dean Judi Smith, Lowell Milken

Jeff Janeczko (Milken Archive) “Discovering a World of American Jewish Music: An Introduction to the Milken Archive”



11:40-12:30 Session 3: Keynote Address

Mark Slobin (Wesleyan) “Jewish American Music: The Long View”



12:30-2:00 Lunch Break*



2:00-3:30 Session 4: Sacred Song and Music of the Past: Tradition and Innovation

Chair: Steve Loza (UCLA)

Judah Cohen (Indiana University) “Singing Societies and Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century American Synagogue”

Mark Kligman (UCLA) “The Authenticity and Authority of Ashkenazic and Sephardic Traditions Brought to America”

Walter (Zev) Feldman “Human Transmission and Musical Sources for Klezmer Music in America: ca. 1960-2000”

Discussant: Lillian Wohl (UCLA)



4:00-5:30 Session 5: Jewish Musical Interactions with Popular Media

Chair: Robert Fink (UCLA)

Daniel Goldmark (Case Western University) “What Jewish Culture Sounded Like in Early 20th Century Media”

Mitchell Morris (UCLA) “The Three Jewish Lives of Sophie Tucker”

Josh Kun (USC) “The Jewish Tinge of Latin American Musical Modernism in Los Angeles”



6:00 Dinner Break



7:30 “100 Years of The Jazz Singer” presentation by Daniel Goldmark (Case Western University)

Chair: Raymond Knapp (UCLA)

The Jazz Singer has consistently helped to define and redefine popular ideas about the sounds of Jewish culture and worship in Hollywood. This presentation will look at the many films, cartoons, and television shows that have grappled with the story of the cantor’s son who makes it big on Broadway.



Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017 314 Royce Hall, UCLA



9:00-10:45 Session 6: Afterlife of Fiddler on the Roof

Chair/Discussant: Judah Cohen (Indiana University)

Jessica Hillman-McCord (SUNY Fredonia) “Echoes of the Holocaust on the American Musical Stage: Fiddler on the Roof and Beyond”

Jake Johnson (Oklahoma City University) “A Stranger in a Strange Land: The Mormon Tevye”

Raymond Knapp (UCLA) “Falsettos in the Shadow of Fiddler on the Roof: Reconsidering Jewish Identity on Broadway in the New Millennium”



11:00-11:45 Musical Scenes Based on Jewish Topics performed by students form the Ray Bolger Theater Program, UCLA Department of Theater



12:00 Lunch Break*



1:30-3:00 Session 7: The Language of Yiddish Theatre: Translating Within and Without Yiddish Theatre in America with live musical examples

Chair: Miriam Koral (UCLA, Director of California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language)

Daniela Smolov Levy (Independent Scholar) “High Culture for the Lower East Side: Grand Opera in Yiddish.”

Mark Slobin (Wesleyan) “Creative Restoration of Early Yiddish Musical Theater”



4:00 Final Program

Anneliese Landau, the Jewish Centers Association, and the International Composers Concert, April 24, 1945

Chamber Music concert with commentary by Lily Hirsch (Bakersfield) Recreation of 1945 Wilshire Ebell Program on Jewish Music including works of: Ernst Toch,Erich Korngold, Arnold Schoenberg, Maurice Ravel and Louis Gruenberg Performed by UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Students

Tuesday Nov. 7th Recital Program

“Jewish Composers in Los Angeles”



Chamber Music concert with commentary by Lily Hirsch (Bakersfield)

“Annaeliese Landau: Re-creation of April 24, 1945 Wilshire Ebell Program on Jewish Music”



For More information about the Conference, Visit: http://www.cjs.ucla.edu/event/american-culture-and-the-jewish-experience-in-music/



The American Culture and the Jewish Experience in Music Conference is presented by The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. Funding is provided by the school of music’s Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music, Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music, and Center for Musical Humanities, as well as the Natalie Limonick Symposium in Jewish Civilization.