Lecture Series: “Sing Every Day: Jewish Music and Spirituality”
Led by Michael Cherlin (University of Minnesota)
About the series: This series will address three aspects of the making, interpretation and apprehension of music: modes of perception, historically located social contexts and social responsibility or a musical ethics. All three of these overarching topics will be informed by Jewish sources and Jewish contexts.
About Michael Cherlin: Michael Cherlin is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Minnesota. He has published widely on Schoenberg in particular and is the author of Schoenberg's Musical Imagination (Cambridge, 2007). He also edited Music Theory Spectrum from 2013 to 2015.
Cosponsored with VOSJCC.
“On Kabbalah and Music: Seeing Through, Hearing Through”
Monday, Dec. 1
1 - 2 PM
In person and Zoom
VOSJCC, Room 103-104
12701 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale
About the lecture: This lecture will explore a way of understanding the emanation of the ten sefirot becomes the basis for my understanding of creating, performing and hearing music.
“Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg: A Contrast of Suppressed Yiddishkeit and Reawakened Judaism”
Monday, Dec. 8
1 - 2 PM
In person and Zoom
VOSJCC, Room 103-104
12701 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale
About the lecture: This lecture will discuss two outstanding Jewish composers of overlapping generations, each a friend and admirer of the other, contrasting the very different ways each dealt with his Judaism in the years prior to and through the Holocaust.
"The Ethics of Levinas and the Study of Music”
Monday, Dec. 15
1 - 2 PM
In person and Zoom
VOSJCC, Room 103-104
12701 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale
About the lecture: This lecture will focus on the ethical writings of Emmanuel Levinas and their implications for composing, performing and hearing music.