ZAPOMENUTY HLAS PRAZSKE JERUZALEMSKE SYNAGOGY / FORGOTTEN VOICE OF THE JERUZALEMSKA SYNAGOGUE IN PRAGUE / Cantor Ladislav Moshe Blum vocal, J.Ksica organ (recordings 1978-1983)
Zidovske muzeum v Praze vydalo za odborne spoluprace Phonogrammarchivu Rakouske akademie ved unikatni dvojcede Zapomenuty hlas prazske Jeruzalemske synagogy. Jedna se o vyber nove objevenych nahravek zpevaka Ladislava Mose Bluma z let 1978-1983, ktere se dochovaly na ctyriceti audiokazetach v osobnim archivu jeho manzelky Terezie (nar. 1909). Blum (1911-1994) byl posledni velky kantor (predzpevak, hebrejsky chazan) predvalecne generace, ktery v letech 1963-1994 pusobil v Jeruzalemske synagoze. Amaterske nahravky si tajne porizoval sam pro sebe na kazetovy prehravac, aby uchoval mistni tradici pristim generacim, protoze za minuleho rezimu bylo v tech letech nemyslitelne, aby vydal svoje nahravky oficialne. Nahravky obsahuji slavne kantorialni skladby a dokonce i nazivo zachycene bohosluzby o sabatech i Vysokych svatcich v Jeruzalemske synagoze a tryzny za zemrele v Terezine. Dokumentuji tak cast nabozenskeho a hudebniho zivota prazske zidovske obce za totality. Vyber nejreprezentativnejsich nahravek kantora nevsednich hlasovych kvalit je predstaven na dvou kompaktnich discich, doprovozenych sedesatistrankovym cesko-anglickym bookletem, ve kterem je krome Blumova zivotopisu a pribehu jeho nahravek i etnomuzikologicky komentar a take texty vsech pisni vcetne jejich hebrejskeho zneni. Nezname nahravky objevila etnomuzikolozka Veronika Seidlova, ktera je take pripravila k vydani ve spolupraci s videnskym Phonogrammarchivem a spolecne s britskym etnomuzikologem Alexanderem Knappem a kantorem Michalem Forstem opatrila booklet komentari.
With the support of Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Jewish Museum in Prague has published a unique double CD The Forgotten Voice of the Jeruzalemska Synagogue in Prague. It is a selection of newly discovered personal recordings of Cantor Ladislav Moshe Blum, recorded on 40 audio-cassette tapes during the years 1978-83 at the Jeruzalemska Synagogue and preserved in the personal archive of his wife Terezie (born 1909). Blum (1911-1994) was the last great Cantor (prayer-leader, or Hazzan in Hebrew) of the pre-war generation, officiating as Cantor in the Jeruzalemska Synagogue during the years 1963-1994. He made his amateur recordings secretly on a cassette recorder in order to preserve the local tradition for future generations, since it would have been unimaginable that the State Recording Company would ever allow him to record Jewish religious music officially during the last two decades of the Communist period. The recordings capture the famous cantorial pieces and even the live Shabbat and High Holiday services in the Jeruzalemska Synagogue and memorial ceremonies for Holocaust victims in Terezin, thus documenting one aspect of the religious and musical life of the Prague Jewish Community during the totalitarian regime. The selection of the most representative recordings of a cantor of unusual vocal qualities is presented on two CDs with a 60-page booklet in Czech and English. Apart from a biography of Cantor Blum and the story of his recordings, the CD booklet also contains an ethnomusicological commentary and the texts of all the songs (also in Hebrew). The unknown recordings were discovered by ethnomusicologist Veronika Seidlova who, with Vienna Phonogrammarchiv, also prepared them for publication and, with British ethnomusicologist Alexander Knapp and Cantor Michal Forst, put together the CD booklet.
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