Program: Special Events
"Entarte Musik" (Degenerate Music)
(2002)
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Marshall Taylor, saxophone
Samuel Hsu, piano
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Introduction by
Dr. Marion Kant, University of Surrey
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Richard Brodhead, Acting Dean of Temple University College
of Music
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Laura Levitt, Director of Jewish Studies and Associate Professor
of Religion at Temple University
Sponsored by Temple University Jewish Studies, Laura Levitt, Director,
and the Temple University Esther Boyer College of Music
Part 1
Hot-Sonate (Jazz-Sonate) fur Altsaxophon und Klavier (1930) (Erwin
Schulhoff)
1. I.
quartet note = 66
2. II.
half note = 112
3. III.quarter
note = 80 (lamentusos ma molto grottesco)
4. IV.half
note= 132: Suite fur Altsaxophon und Klavier (1935) (Paul Dessau)
5. Petite
Ouverture
6. Air
7. Serenade:
Sonate fur Altsaxophon und Klavier (1943) (Paul Hindemith)
8. Ruhig
bewegt
9. Lebhaft
10. Sehr
langsam
11. Lebhaft:
Three Songs Without Words (1952) (Paul Ben-Haim)
12. Arioso
13. Ballad
14. Sephardic
Melody (Traditional)
15. Duo
for Alto Saxophone and Piano (2001)* (Lukas Foss)
Introduction
Strife and Struggle
Prayer
Part 2
Introductions to the music:
1. Richard
Brodhead & Laura Levitt
2. Dr.
Marion Kant
3. Marshall
Taylor - Dessau: Suite Of
4. Dr.
Marion Kant & Marshall Taylor - Hindemith: Sonate
5. Samuel
Hsu - Foss: Duo
6. Dr.
Marion Kant -- Schulhoff: Hot-Sonate
A panel discussion: Anti-Judaism in Bach's
St. John Passion (2001)
Panelists:
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Michael Marissen, Associate Professor of Music
at Swarthmore College. Author of: The Social and Religious
Designs of JS. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos; Lutheranism;
Anti-Judaism, and Bach's "St. John Passion";
An Introduction to Bach Studies. He studied music history
at Calvin College and Brandeis University
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Miriam Peskowitz, Visiting Assocaite Professor
of Religion at Emory University.
Author of: Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History;
Co-editor of Judaism Since Gender with Laura Levitt.
Her current work focuses on the construction of the Holy Land
in American Imagination and Material Culture. She studied religion
and music at Oberlin College and Judaism (Roman period) and
gender at Duke University.
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Laura Levitt, Director
of Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Religion at Temple
University
Presentations by the panelists:
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