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The song is mentioned in James Joyce's Ulysses (1922). [5] It gained renewed popularity when it was sung by Jeanette MacDonald in the 1936 hit film San Francisco . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The melody formed the basis of a Spiritual titled Hosanna , which in turn was the basis for the opening of Duke Ellington 's " Black and Tan Fantasy ".
Michael Maybrick (31 January 1841 – 26 August 1913) [1] was an English composer and singer, best known under his pseudonym Stephen Adams as the composer of "The Holy City", one of the most popular religious songs in English.
The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, now in its 85th season, was founded as the Palestine Broadcasting Service Orchestra in the late 1930s. In 1948 it became the national radio orchestra and was known as the “Kol Israel Orchestra”. In the 1970s, the orchestra was expanded into the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Broadcasting Authority.
King David was originally conceived in 1994 by Jerusalem 3000 producer Andre Djaoui as a musical based on the life of King David to commemorate the 3,000th anniversary of the founding of the city of Jerusalem; it was to be performed in 1996 at Sultan's Pool, an archaeological site which had since been turned into concert arena. [5]
These include the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, [67] which is supported by the state radio and television authority; the Rishon LeZion Orchestra, [68] and the Camerata Orchestra. One of the motivations for creating these orchestras was to provide employment for Russian immigrant musicians, who arrived in Israel with a high professional level ...
These are usually much slower than around-the-table nigunim, and are almost always sung without lyrics. The Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism, spoke of devekus nigunim as “songs that transcend syllables and sound.” Nigun has also been used by the Musar movement, [4] [5] by the Jewish renewal movement, [6] and in other Jewish movements. [7]
There are many songs about Jerusalem from various time periods, especially nationalistically-themed songs from the time of the Six-Day War, when East Jerusalem passed from Jordanian control to Israeli. Additionally many Biblical Psalms, styled as songs, were written specifically about Jerusalem. Jewish liturgy and hymns are rife with references ...
Sancta Civitas (The Holy City) is an oratorio by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Written between 1923 and 1925, it was his first major work since the Mass in G minor two years previously. Vaughan Williams began working on the piece from a rented furnished house in the village of Danbury, Essex , found for him by his former pupil, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs .