Esotismi musicali del Dibbuk

Aloma Bardi

Esotismi musicali del Dibbuk: Ispirazioni da un soggetto del folclore ebraico

Authors

Aloma Bardi

ICAMus - International Center for American Music

Keywords:

Sholem An-Ski, American music, exoticism in music, Yiddish drama

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Archive of Jewish Studies

Pages: 201

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-25863

Abstract: An analysis of musical adaptations of Der Dybuk (1914), a Yiddish drama by Russian Jewish writer and folklorist, S. An-Ski (1863-1920), focused on a tragic story of love and possession, which since its debut has inspired many composers. Numerous European and American adaptations are explored: the incidental music by Yoel Engel, Copland’s Trio Vitebsk, Gershwin’s unaccomplished project for a folk-opera, Il Dibuk by Lodovico Rocca, a Polish musical film in Yiddish (Dybuk, 1937), Bernstein's ballet Dybbuk, and a contemporary American opera in Yiddish by Solomon Epstein (1997). The book examines rare and unpublished works, musical manuscripts and archival sources, and provides a repertoire of musical adaptations of this subject.

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Author Biography

Aloma Bardi, ICAMus - International Center for American Music

Aloma Bardi is a music historian and translator. She is an American-music specialist, and taught “History of Music in the United States” at the University of Florence. She is the founding director of ICAMus-The International Center for American Music, www.icamus.org.