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Jewish Music Forum, NYC, Mar 17

The Jewish Music Forum, a project of the American Society for Jewish Music at the Center for Jewish History is pleased to announce the following presentation:

Assimilating (Post-Modern) Jewish Music: Ambivalence in Contemporary Composition

Dr. David Schiller (University of Georgia)
Respondent: Dr. Klára Móricz (Amherst College)

Friday, March 17
10 A.M.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY

Admission is free and open to the public

For information on this or other events of the Jewish Music Forum, please see the website: www.jewishmusicforum.org, call 212-294-8328 or

David Schiller is associate professor of musicology in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia. He received his A.B. from Harvard College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. He is the author of Bloch, Schoenberg, and Bernstein: Assimilating Jewish Music (Oxford, 2003), as well as a number of published essays on topics including Renaissance and Medieval music, Anton Dvorak's musical aesthetics, and Harold Bloom's Shakespeare criticism.

Klára Móricz is currently a visiting Valentine professor at Amherst College. Formerly a staff member of the Budapest Bartók Archives, she is editor of a forthcoming volume of the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition. She has published articles on Bartók, Liszt, Fauré, Schoenberg, and Bloch. Her book Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Art Music will be published as part of California Studies in 20th-Century Music.

For information on this or other events of the Jewish Music Forum, please see the website: www.jewishmusicforum.org, call 212-294-8328 or |

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