{"id":2511,"date":"2016-02-24T01:49:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T01:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2016-02-29T12:10:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T12:10:41","slug":"italian-chazanut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/italian-chazanut\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Chazanut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='custom-gallery galleryid-2511 clearfix'><figure class='gallery-item'><a href='https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/kippur-liv-1200.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/kippur-liv-1200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-big-size size-big-size\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/kippur-liv-1200.jpg 700w, https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/kippur-liv-1200-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/kippur-liv-1200-600x447.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'><a href='https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dome.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dome.gif\" class=\"attachment-big-size size-big-size\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'><a href='https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SafraSynagogueGuests.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SafraSynagogueGuests-1050x669.jpg\" class=\"attachment-big-size size-big-size\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'><a href='https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndrewViterbi.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndrewViterbi-1050x669.jpg\" class=\"attachment-big-size size-big-size\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"sc-separator type-space\"><\/div>\n<h4>The Erna Finci Viterbi Italian Chazanut Round Table<\/h4>\n<h6><i>A resource on Italian Jewish liturgy and music<\/i><\/h6>\n<p>On February 14, 2016 Centro Primo Levi presented its new project dedicated to the Italian <em>chazanut<\/em>\u00a0established in memory of Erna Finci Viterbi z&#8221;l. The event took place at the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The program inaugurated with a <em>limmud<\/em>\u00a0in music\u00a0and a publication curated by Enrico Fink who\u00a0performed with\u00a0Frank London (trumpet), Patrick Farrell (accordion), and Satoshi Takeishi (percussion).<\/p>\n<p>Each year, Centro Primo Levi will invite a guest cantor to lead a ceremony of music and singing from the Italian and Mediterranean Jewish traditions. Publications, recordings and essays produced for this program will be available through a website designed to provide tools to those interested in learning, practicing or simply enjoying this art, including scholars, musicians, <i>cantors<\/i> and <i>bar\/bat-mitzvah<\/i> students wishing to include some of this beautiful music in their liturgical repertoire.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing and participating were among Erna\u2019s most cherished values and she regarded them as indispensable foundation of human relations and endeavors. This project, made of books and music and conceived as a \u201cportable school,\u201d is dedicated to Erna\u2019s life and the long journey through countries and cultures that enriched her vision and strengthened her identity. May her memory be of guidance to future generations.<\/p>\n<p>The online resource will be structured as a virtual <i>siddur<\/i> and <i>machazor<\/i>\u00a0 in which the essential daily and festive liturgy is organized in chapters, each featuring regional variations of <i>piyyutim<\/i>, cantillation and melodies as well as extra-liturgical repertoires.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Erna Finci Viterbi Chazanut Roundtable was established through the generous support of Sarah Hallac, Toby Wolf, Danielle Pinet and Jeff Keil.<\/i><\/p>\n<h4><div class=\"sc-separator type-thin\"><\/div><\/h4>\n<h4>Inaugural Program: Shirat Hayam. Song of the Sea<\/h4>\n<p>Both in the Italian (ben\u00e8 Rom\u00ec) and the Sephardic minhag (in Italy and worldwide), the Song of the Sea is part of the morning zemirot. It is sung on every Shabbat with a popular ancient melody which is roughly the same everywhere. Even Ashkenazi communities often adopt it for the reading of the parasha from which the biblical text is taken: Parashat Beshallach.<\/p>\n<p>We chose Song of the Sea to inaugurate the Erna Finci Viterbi Italian Chazanut Round Table as it evokes her journey out of Sarajevo&#8217;s Sephardic community.<\/p>\n<p>The project explores the connection between melodies used in Italian communities, in particular for the piyyutim, and melodies used in North Africa and the Middle East, concentrating on Livorno&#8217;s historical role as crossroads between Italy and the Sephardic communities of the Mediterranean. As Edwin Seroussi wrote:<\/p>\n<p>Melodies from the Italian-Sephardic synagogue tradition as practiced in Livorno were transmitted to other Sephardic communities in Italy and around the Mediterranean in the early 20th century. Bucharest, Alexandria, Marseilles, Tunis, Tripoli, Rhodes and Gibraltar are all communities where Livornese-trained cantors served and introduced melodies from their musical heritage. The choral tradition from Livorno spread to other cities in Italy, particularly to Florence, superseding the old Italian rite.<\/p>\n<p>Today we can still hear this influence by comparing the melodies sung in Sephardic communities in North Africa, Israel, the Middle East to the traditional melodies from Livorno and Florence as transcribed by Federico Consolo in his famous 19th century collection Libro dei canti d&#8217;Israele.<\/p>\n<p>In many striking cases, melodies that sound distinctly local, deeply rooted in their own tradition, and distant as a classical Italian aria can derive from a traditional Moroccan chant, revealing a common root and showing how an original tune has been modified by generations of use and oral transmission. Dozens of enchanting <i>piyyutim<\/i> testify to this long and continuous interchange across the Mediterranean, and constitute as a whole, a rich and fascinating \u201csong of the sea\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the curator &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>A distinguished voice in Italian Jewish music, <b>Enrico Fink<\/b>\u00a0is the cultural counselor of the Jewish Community of Florence and appears regularly as performer and educator in Europe and\u00a0 in the U.S. His discography includes: <i>Klezmer \u2013 Cronache di viaggi, Lokshen \u2013 Patrilineare, Il Ritorno Alla Fede del Cantante di Jazz,\u00a0La Istoria de Purim<\/i>. In 2011 he edited <i>La\u00a0Casa dei Canti<\/i>, a CD of old and new recordings of Florentine Jewish musical traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Erna Finci Viterbi Italian Chazanut Round Table A resource on Italian Jewish liturgy and music On February 14, 2016 Centro Primo Levi presented its new project dedicated to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Italian Chazanut - Printed_Matter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/italian-chazanut\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Italian Chazanut - 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