JMI Fridays
A series of illustrated lunchtime lectures at SOAS on Fridays
10 February – 17
March 2006
Presented by Jewish Music Institute and the Department of Music SOAS
17 March, 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Yigdal: Dr
Alexander Knapp, SOAS Jewish Music Lecturer
The significance of Meier Leon ’s ‘Yigdal’: Melody
as a link between Jewish and Christian Hymnody in 18 th Century London.
Room G50 main building SOAS Thornhaugh Street , Russell Square, London
WC1H 0XG
Admission free
10 March, 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Yidl mitn fidl :
Paul de Keyser violinist
The Jews’ affinity for the violin
Room G50 main building SOAS
Thornhaugh Street , Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Admission free
3 March 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Radical Fusions :
Laoise Davidson, JMI Head of Communications
From Klezmer to Klezmer
Punk: What’s new and what’s hot
in contemporary Jewish music?
Room G50 main building SOAS Thornhaugh Street , Russell Square, London
WC1H 0XG
Admission free
24 February 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Shalom
Saalam Yair Dalal, Oud / Fiddle / Peace activist,
Israel
Judaeo-Arab music and the multicultural music of Israel :
music as messenger of social change
Room G50 main building SOAS Thornhaugh Street
, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Admission free
Special notice: Yair Dalal will be playing at the Live! On the Park (formerly Pizza on the Park), 11-13 Hyde Park Corner, Knightsbridge, London , SW1X 7LY on the evenings of the 23rd, 24th and 25th of February! Enquiries: 020 7235 5273.
Yair will also be playing a special concert on Sunday February 26th from 17:30 to 20:30 at St. Peter's Church, Kensington Park Road , Notting Hill, London W1. Call 44 (0) 7956 210 768 for details
