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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Music and judaism

Series of lectures 2012 at the Jewish quarter of Girona

The Nahmanides Institute for Jewish Studies, together with the Chair Ferrater Mora of Contemporary Thoughts from the University of Girona programmes each year a series of lectures focusing on a theme related to the Jewish culture. From January to May 2012, there will be five conferences focused on the relationship between "Music and Judaism"; a very old, true, prolific and productive relationship, although not always accepted, understood and viewed by everybody in the same way.

February 23
Jerusalem, música per a una ciutat, Manuel Forcano, hebraist and writer, Barcelona.


March 29
L'antisemitisme musical: de Richard Wagner al camp de Theresienstadt, Xavier Antich, Professor of Aesthetics and Director of the Master's Degree in Communication and Art Criticism, University of Girona.


April 26
La música en el gueto de Varsovia: el caso de Wiera Gran y Wladislaw Szpilman, Mercedes Monmany, writer and literary critic, Madrid.


May 31
Gustav Mahler: una presentació musical, Joan Grimalt, philologist and musician, ESMUC, Barcelona.


June 28
Leonard Cohen: entre la música i la paraula, Carme Pardo, Professor of Music History, University of Girona.