Brooklyn-based Israeli multi-instrumentalist and singer Daphna Mor and performer/researcher Elizabeth Weinfield join host Debra Nagy for an exploration of Jewish identity and musical traditions. Daphna Mor will share how she has incorporated Jewish liturgical music into her performing life and demonstrate the art of Piyut, an oral tradition in which Jewish communities in Yemen, Iran, Morocco, Turkey, and elsewhere set ancient Hebrew liturgical texts to different tunes. Elizabeth Weinfield shares her research into Jewish Converso composer Leonora Duarte (1610 – ca. 1678), locating Duarte within the broader history of the Jewish Diaspora following the Spanish Inquisition.
Debra Nagy, host & executive producer
Shelby Yamin, associate producer
Eric Milnes, Remote Collaboration Audio production
Recorder
Viola da gamba
Violin
Viola da gamba
Links to recordings and additional web resources coming soon.
Leonara Duarte: Sinfonia no. 5
Courtesy Sonnambula
Duarte: Sinfonia no. 1
Courtesy Sonnambula
Sephardic Song (Morocco): Mosé salió de Misrayim / Hodu La’adonai
Arr. Nina Stern: Rotta
Courtesy East of the River
Piyut for Rosh Hashana: Achot Ketana
Courtesy Daphna Mor
Piyut (Morocco), Arr. Mor: Ein K’eloheinu
SEASON UNDERWRITERS
Joseph Sopko & Elizabeth Macintyre
Deborah Malamud & Neal Plotkin
Tom & Marilyn McLaughlin
EPISODE SPONSORS
William Anderson
Gerry Fathauer & Jeff Hutchinson
Arthur Rotatori & Tara Fields
Sarah Steiner
Marc Vincent & Alex Nalbach
REMOTE ARTIST SPONSORS
John & Joanne Goodell
Paula Mindes & George Gilliam
Tim & Marjorie Minnis
Shirley Simmons
Jean Toombs
Daniel Williams