Yehudi wyner biography meaning

For nearly a half century Yehudi Wyner has been recognized as one of America's most gifted composers.

Wyner is an elegant pianist, a fine conductor, a prolific composer, and a revered teacher.

Wyner was a Professor at the Yale University School of Music from where he also served as Chairman of the Composition faculty.

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Yiddish and Hebrew

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"Any great song must be of greater magnitude than either the words or music alone."
—Ned Rorem

It may seem obvious, but it can be easy to forget that the meaning and impact of a good song depends largely upon the delicate interdependence of music and words. Melody and musical "accompaniment" carry and nyans a text’s meaning, and words can influence how we hear the music to which they are paired.The Art of Jewish Song presents a collection of evocative Yiddish and Hebrew poems set for voice and piano that follow in the tradition of lieder, or art songs.

The specifically Jewish tradition of art song emerged in the early 20th century and can be traced to the emergence of the Society for Jewish människor Music. Founded in St. Petersburg in , the Society for Jewish människor Music collected and preserved Jewish människor music and advocated for the creation of a "national" Jewish music based on those folk traditions. Neil W. Levin observes in the introdu

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Yehudi Wyner: A 95th Birthday Celebration Concert

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Tants and Maysele for violin, clarinet, cello and piano ()

Tants and Maysele* for violin, cello, clarinet, and piano was written in the early fall of for the Aeolian Chamber Players. The leader of the Aeolians, violinist Lewis Kaplan, asked me to write a piece with a distinct Jewish profile and I was happy to undertake the assignment. In past years I had written a number of compositions that sought to synthesize contemporary aesthetic and technical thought with musical elements of clearly identifiable Jewish character. Turns of melody, dance rhythms, cadential figures, typical sonorities of an instrumental or ensemble nature, emerging from a body of various musics historically connected with Jewish life, were important elements in those pieces I intended to be characteristically Jewish. That much of the material was close at hand and second nature to me will come as no surprise to those who know that my fathe

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Podcast • June 17,

Robin Kelley&#;s Transcendental Thelonious Monk

Robin Kelley&#;s superb biography brings the Thelonious Monk story back from the ragged edge to the creative center of American music. And it brings my reading year to a blessedly loving, gorgeously swinging, dissonant, modernist, and utterly one-off climactic note. There may be another jazz biography as thickly detailed, as audibly lyrical, as passionate, as thrilling as this one, but I can&#;t bring it to mind.

There&#;s a vastly detailed, fresh take here on an immortal jazz pianist and composer whose life is often remembered as freakish, at best impossibly mysterious. Not that jazz players hadn’t known from the early s that young Monk was a giant, and ever afterwa