KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Leon Stein: Three Hassidic Dances

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

P.STE.LEO.01

Program Length

16 min

Dates

| broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

Leon Stein: Three Hassidic Dances

Thor Johnson: The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra DUB FROM REMINGTON RECORD R-199-185

The composer wrote about this work: “From about 1930 I developed an interest in and made an intensive study of Jewish music. The ecstatic and mystic aspects of Hassidism and its association with a musical symbolism particularly attracted me. These dances, composed in 1940 and 1941 were an outgrowth of this interest and study.”

1) DANCE OF THE JOYOUS (ALLEGRO)
2) DANCE OF THE ENRATPURED (ADAGIO)
3) DANCE OF THE EXULATANT (MODERATO-ALLEGRO)
16 MIN

Genres

20th century classical
Orchestral music

Musical Selections

Three Hassidic Dances: Dance of the Joyous ; Dance of the Enraptured ; Dance of the Exultant (1940-41) / Leon Stein

Performers

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Thor Johnson, conductor

Subjects

20th century classical
Orchestral music
Dance music

Related Entities

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Stein, Leon, 1910-2002
Johnson, Thor