The Sentinel, v.162 no. 04, 1948

              April 22, 1948
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MAN OF THE TIMES
Dr. Salomo Rosowsky-Brilliant
Musicologist and Historian
By DAVID SPIGLER
Editor's Note-
Professor Salomo Rosowsky, the subject
of the following article is at present in
Chicago to give a series of lectures on
Biblical cantillation and harmonics as
the apply to modern Jewish music.
When Dr. Salomo Rosowsky, the dis-tinguished
Jewish musicologist, delivers
his series of five lectures on "Music of
the Pentateuch and Liturgy" at Chi-cago's
College of Jewish Studies this
month, American students of Jewish
music will hear one of the most brilliant
exponents of its history and import
that the modern world knows.
An accomplished linguist and anthro-pologist
as well as a specialist in music-ology,
Dr. Rosowsky delivers two lec-tures
on the Prayer Chants in Yiddish
and three lectures in English on the
Cantillations of the Bible. While his
talks are of special interest to students
of Synagogue and Church Music, they
are fascinating musical delineations to
any one of taste and cultural curiosity.
Salomo Rosowsky is the youngest
son of Baruch Leib Rosowsky, the fam-ous
cantor of Riga. He studied law at
the University of Kiev and music at
the Imperial Conservatory at Peters-burg
with Ljadov, Rimsky-Korsakow
and Glazounow. In 1905, Rosowsky
studied under Arthur Nikisch at the
Leipzig Conservatory.
He was co-founder of the Society for
Jewish Folk Music in Petersburg in
1908, which played an important role
in the development of modern Jewish
art music. In 1911, Rosowsky became
music critic of the daily newspaper,
"Denj" (The Day) and later collaborat-ed
in the periodical "Musikalni Sov-remennik"
(The Musical Contempor-ary).
In 1918 he became Music Direc-tor
of the Jewish Art Theatre at Peters-burg,
for which he composed music to
Sholom Asch's play, "The Sinner", to
the same author's Biblical poem, "Am-non
and Tamar," and for Gutzkow's
drama, "Uriel Acosta."
Founded Conservatory
Following his return to Riga, Ro-sowsky
founded the first Jewish con-servatory
of music on a large scale,
acting as teacher of musical theory for
five years. He combined his work with
that of music critic for the paper,
"Sewodnja."
In 1925 Rosowsky emigrated to Pal-estine,
where he was active in thre
different fields-composition, musical
research and teaching. He composed
music for the Habimah Theatre's per-formances
of the Sholom Aleichem
comedy, "The Treasure," Calderon's
play, "The Crown of David," Levick's
"The Golem;" for the Ohel Theatre's
performances of Krasheninikov's Bibli-cal
idyll, "Jacob and Rachel," and
"Sabbatai Zwi" by Bistritsky; and fi-nally
for the performance by the
Theatrical Society of Jerusalem of Stein-man's
drama, "Messiah the Son of
Joseph" (Mashiah ben Yosef).
During the same period, Rosowsky
wrote works of orchestra ("Trauer
Ode") and others, chamber music en-semble,
choir, as well as a number of
songs for male and female voices. He
also edited a collection of Pelestinian
songs "Mezimrat Ha-Aretz." His earlier
works, composed in Russia, comprise
a symphonic poem, "Chassidim," two
quintettes for wood instruments, various
piano pices ("Poem," "Badchan," etc.),
choral works, etc.
In the field of musical research, Ro-sowsky
has been occupied preeminently
with the Biblical tropes for which he
originated the "Analytical Theory of
Biblical Cantillation." He lectured on
the results of his research at Columbia
University, the Jewish Institute of Re-ligion,
Dropsie College, the Yiddish
Scientific, Universities of London and
Cambridge, Musicology Association and
Jews' College, both in London, the
Institute Rabbinique in Paris, and many
other scholarly institutions of Europe.
Rosowsky's padagogic activities have
taken place primarily at the Jerusalem
Conservatory of Music. Many contem-porary
young Palestinian composers are
his pupils. The Palestinian Educational
Department in 1945 officially resolved
to include his Tropal System in the
seminaries.
In 1946, Rosowsky was awarded a
special prize for his musical activities
by the Municipality of Tel Aviv.
His present visit to the United States
is connected with the forthcoming pub-lication
of his monumental work, "The
Music of the Pentateuch," by the Co-lumbia
University Press and the Amer-ican
Academy for Jewish Research. He
is now teaching in New York at various
Jewish institutions as well as at the
New School of Social Research, where
he is lecturing on the -music of the
Bible and presenting two courses, one
in strict Counterpoint (Palestinian
style) and another in Modern Harmony.
(A World News Service Feature)
Jewish Big Sister Plan Seder
For Little 'Sisters'
Under the direction of Mrs. Harry
Cook, chairman, the Seder Dinner Com-mittee,
including Mesdames A. Has-sen,
James M. Kahn, Philip Kahn,
and many other Big Sisters, is planning
the annual, traditional Seder Dinner
Party for all little sisters and their
little brothers, to be held this year
on Sunday, April 25, 12:30 p.m., at
the Community house of Temple Sho-lem.
An afternoon of games and enter-tainment
will follow the Passover din-ner
and Seder ceremony. Mesdames
Harry L. Nathenson and Howard G.
Mesirow are co-chairmen of the Re-creation
committee, and Mrs. Maurice
L. Dale is president of Jewish Big Sis-ters.
The recreation committee is also
planning a sight-seeing tour for all
little sisters, which is scheduled to take
place during spring vacation, on Tues-day,
April 27, 1 p.m. Mrs. Joseph C.
Cohen is chairman of the outing, as-sisted
by other Big Sisters.
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