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However, even during the 20th century some Jewish composers often quoted Jewish music within non-Jewish contexts; for example, Gershwin used liturgical melodies and Hebrew songs for a few numbers in Porgy and Bess, and many also believe that the opening clarinet glissando in his Rhapsody in Blue is a reference to klezmer.
Religious Jewish Music in the 20th century has spanned the gamut from Shlomo Carlebach's nigunim to Debbie Friedman's Jewish feminist folk, to the many sounds of Daniel Ben Shalom. Velvel Pasternak has spent much of the late 20th century acting as a preservationist and committing what had been a strongly oral tradition to paper.
Jewish music is the music and melodies of the Jewish people. There exist both traditions of religious music, as sung at the synagogue and in domestic prayers, and of secular music, such as klezmer .
Within the traditional Jewish community, cantoral and chasiddic melodies were the musical standard.. In the 1950s and early 1960s recordings began to be made of non-cantorial Jewish music, beginning with Ben Zion Shenker's recording of the music of the Modzitz chassidic sect [2] and Cantor David Werdyger's Gerrer recordings.
Jewish rock is a form of contemporary Jewish religious music that is influenced by various forms of secular rock music.Pioneered by contemporary folk artists like Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and the Diaspora Yeshiva Band, the genre gained popularity in the 1990s and 2000s with bands like Soulfarm, Blue Fringe, and Moshav Band that appealed to teens and college students, while artists like Matisyahu ...
Rozhinkes mit Mandlen, from the treasures of Avrom Goldfaden songs (c. 1958-60, Tikva Records, the Jewish People’s Chorus of New York conducted by Maurice Rauch) Tsvei Brider (1967, Tikva Records/YMF, composed by Jacob Schaefer, text by I. L. Peretz, conducted by Maurice Rauch) [37] Zingt! A Celebration of Yiddish Choral Music (2006)
In a particularly infamous example, the Bnei Brak-based Haredi group Committee for Jewish Music, led by Rabbi Ephraim Luft, published in 2008 their "Rules for Playing Kosher Music", which condemned not only the use of secular styles in Jewish music but also modern instruments like saxophone and electric guitar as well as disco-style beats, and ...
See Secular Jewish culture#Jews in classical music for an introduction and explanation, and List of Jewish musicians and for further details and explanation.. NOTE:This contains some composers who are not specifically tied to classical music but had classical training, these may be moved to their own sub category.