Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Principal spokesman for musical Zionism is fiery, bald-headed Lazare Saminsky, a Russo-Manhattanite who not only writes Israelite music, but books and articles expounding its principles and importance. Also prominent in the fold is soft-spoken Joseph Achron. whose smaller works, based on Hebrew themes, have won particular favor with solo recitalists. But foremost among all Zionist-minded composers stands crotchety Swiss-born Ernest Bloch, whose descriptive suite for piano and orchestra. Evocations, was given its first performance last week by the San Francisco Symphony under walrus-faced Pierre Monteux...
...Rhythm is distinguished by sweet & low singing of The Man I Love by Hildegarde, tremolo rendering of a Gershwin tune on the harmonica by Larry Adler, and the cultivated, funereal tones of an English master of ceremonies paying tribute to the composer in odd counterpoint to the smooth, Hebrew melodies of the Jazz King. While this curio was being put on sale in Manhattan phonograph shops, one of the least sentimental and most interesting events in the commemoration of George Gershwin since his death was an exhibition, at Marie Harriman Gallery, of his own paintings...
...Shoe Shine Boy, Rhythm Is Our Business, could recognize a song when they heard it. They put English lyrics to Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, retained the original title, carried it to Harms, their publishers. Harms, delighted with the plaintive, minor tune that sounded like a Hebrew lament in swing time, arranged with J. & J. Kammen Music Co. to split royalties from the English version between Chaplin & Cahn and Secunda & Jacobs...
...work at once the oldest and the newest of books is the Hebrew Old Testament. Really the chronicle of the Jewish tribes from earliest recorded times right down to the Christian era, a chronicle which took those people through some of the most amazing adventures that you can read about in any literature, a chronicle occasionally incomplete--full of blind spots, times when the race seemed to be swallowed up like Jonah from the face of the earth--nevertheless this chronicle, this story, has had as much to do with shaping the course of world affairs for the last nineteen...