Joel Rubin
Joel Rubin ( born October 14, 1955 in Los Angeles ) is an American clarinetist and klezmer musicians.
Life
Joel Rubin is regarded as one of the leading interpreters of Eastern European Jewish instrumental music ( Klezmer ). Among his admirers and supporters include major klezmer clarinetist Dave Tarras musicians such as the Epstein and Max and the clarinet virtuoso Richard Stoltzman, avant-garde composer John Zorn, and Nobel Laureate and poet Roald Hoffmann. Rubin studied with Stoltzman and calms Opperman, attended the California Institute of the Arts and graduated the State University of New York at Purchase with a " BFA " from. He received his Ph.D. from the City University London for his work in ethnomusicology on improvisation and ornamentation in klezmer clarinet. He taught at the Humboldt -Universität zu Berlin, Cornell University, Syracuse University, Ithaca College and is currently Assistant Professor and Director of Music Performance at the McIntire Department of Music of the University of Virginia.
In addition to performances by traditional musicians such as the Epstein Brothers ("A Tickle in the Heart" ), Moshe " Moussa " Berlin, Leon Schwartz, Sid Beckerman, Pete Sokolow, Danny Rubinstein, Ben Bazyler and Leopold Kozlowski, he also worked with the Seymour Rexsite and Miriam Kressyn, two actors and singers of Yiddish theater and film. Rubin leads since 1994, the international Joel Rubin Ensemble (also known as Joel Rubin Jewish Music Ensemble, USA / Hungary / Italy) and founded several successful klezmer ensembles, including the group Brave Old World. Members of the Joel Rubin Ensemble include Kálmán Balogh ( cimbalom ), David Chernyavsky ( violin ) and Claudio Jacomucci (accordion). His CD recordings "Midnight Prayer" (2007), " Beregovski 's Khasene " ( Beregovski 's Wedding, 1997), " Bessarabian Symphony " (1994), " zeydes un Eyniklekh " ( grandfathers and grandchildren, 1995) and " Hungry Hearts " (1998 ) are considered masterpieces of classical Eastern European and American Jewish music. His music can be heard in the award-winning documentary about the Epstein Brothers Orchestra, "A Tickle in the Heart" (Germany / Switzerland / USA, 1996), a film based on his research and the Treatment / book that he wrote with the author, editor, and ethnomusicologist Rita Ottens and the filmmaker Stefan Schwietert wrote. Rubin's concert schedule extends to Europe, North America and Asia; Master classes and workshops led, inter alia, it at the New England Conservatory of Music, Yale University, and, at the invitation of knowledge Ministries Israel and Berlin, Jerusalem and Berlin. In 2004, he taught with Opperman Stoltzman and the Clarinet Summit.
Rubin wrote, along with Rita Ottens, the books Klezmer Music ( Barenreiter / dtv, 1999) and Jewish musical traditions ( Gustav Bosse Verlag, 2001). From 1993 to 2008 he was out with Ottens, the Jewish Music Series with CDs for the Wergo label of the Mainz Schott -Verlag. Your klezmer trilogy when Trikont ( Yikhes, 1991; Doyres, 1995 and Shteygers, 1995 ) is considered the standard work. His music strip Mazltov! Jewish - American Wedding Music for Clarinet (Schott Musik International ) appeared in 1998.
List of Publications
Books:
Jewish musical traditions, with Rita Ottens. Gustav Bosse Verlag, 2001.
Klezmer music with Rita Ottens. Bears tab and dtv, 1999.
Mazltov! Jewish - American Wedding Music for Clarinet. Schott Musik International, 1998.
Editions:
Reports from the international academic conference "Hearing Israel: Music, Culture and History at 60 ". Jerusalem: Min- Ad. Israel Studies in Musicology Vol 7 Number II ( 2008-09 ), with James Loeffler Available online.
Book Chapters:
Rubin, Joel E. "Like a string of pearls ": Brass instruments in Jewish instrumental klezmer music. In: Studies in Jazz 58: Early Twentieth - Century Brass Idioms: Art, Jazz, and Other Popular Traditions, eds Howard T. Weiner. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press 2009: 77-102.
Rubin, Joel E. "They danced it, we played it": Adaptation and revitalization in post- 1920s New York klezmer music. In: Studies in Jewish Civilization 19: "I Will Sing and Make Music ": Jewish Music and Musicians Throughout the Ages. Ed Leonard J. Greenspoon, Ronald A. Simkins, and Jean Cahan. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2008: 181-213.
Rubin, Joel E. Heyser Bulgar (The Spirited Bulgar ): Compositional process in Jewish - American dance music of the 1910s and 1920s. In: Jewish music and musicians in the 20th century, ed Wolfgang Birtel, Joseph Dorfman and Christoph- Hellmut Mahling. Writings on musicology ( Musikologisches Institute, University of Mainz). Mainz: ARE Musikverlag (2006).
Rubin, Joel E. Ambivalent Identities: The American Klezmer Movement as a response to crisis and trauma. In: Reports from the ICTM National Committee Germany XIII: Traditional music and fashion (s) - Free Reports, ed Marianne Broecker. Bamberg: University Library, 2004: 89-115.
Rubin, Joel E. " In the center of an ancient ritual ": The Clarinet in Klezmer music. In: Fascination clarinet. Munich / Berlin: Prestel Publishing / Musical Instrument Museum, 2004: 219-230.
Rubin, Joel. "Can not You Play Anything Jewish? " Klezmer music and Jewish socialization in post-war America. In: Jewish literature and culture in the United Kingdom and the United States after 1945, ed Beate Neumeier. Jewish Culture, studies on religion, intellectual history and culture 3, ed Karl. E. Grözinger. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1998: 189-219.
Rubin, Joel and Rita Ottens. Klezmer Research in Eastern Europe: then and now. In: Jews and anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe, ed Mariana Hausleitner and Monika Katz. # 5 Multidisciplinary in the series Publications of the Eastern Europe Institute of the Free University in Berlin. Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995: 177-193.
Article:
Rubin, Joel E. " What A Jew Means in This Time": Naftule Brandwein, Dave Tarras and the Shifting Aesthetics in the Contemporary Klezmer Landscape, in: Proceedings of the 2007 Conney Conference on Jewish Arts. Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture. Published online by the University of Wisconsin -Madison Libraries ' Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing in collaboration with Wendt Library ( 2009). available online
Rubin, Joel E. " Music is the Pen of the Soul": Recent Works on Hasidic and Jewish Instrumental Klezmer Music. AJS Review 29:1, Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies, 2005: 145-158.
Ottens, Rita in collaboration with Joel E. Rubin. "Sounds of the Vanishing World: Yiddish Music in Contemporary Germany", in web-based proceedings, "Sounds of Two Worlds: Music as a Mirror of Migration to and from Germany" conference, Max Kade Institute, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 2004and available online
Rubin, Joel. Klezmer: The Lost Archives of Moyshe Beregovski. In: World Music. In: The Rough Guide: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific, Volume Two of the New Edition, London: Rough Guides, 2000: 587
Rubin, Joel. Rumenishe shtiklekh (Romanian pieces ). Klezmer music among the Hasidim in contemporary Israel. Judaism (Issue 185, Volume 47, Winter 1998): 12-23.
Rubin, Joel. " Alts NEMT zikh fun of Doyne " ( Everything comes from the doina ). The Romanian - Jewish Doina. A Closer Stylistic Examination. In: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Jewish Music, City University, London, April 1994 ( London: City University, 1997). 133-164.
Reviews and other writings:
Book Review of Max P. Baumann, Tim Becker and Raphael Wöbs, music and culture in the Jewish life of the present, Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2006 PaRDeS. . Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies, V. 14 (2008).
Book review about American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots, ed Mark Slobin. Journal of the American Musicological Society 60 (1 ) ( Spring 2007): 238-253.
CD Review Klezmer: Café Jew Zoo ( Yale Strom ) and Klezmer Suite: Music of Sid Robinovitch. Journal of the Society for American Music 1 (4 ) ( November 2007): 546-553.
Book review Jane Mink Rossen and Uri Sharvit, A Fusion of Traditions: Liturgical Music in the Copenhagen Synagogue, Odense M: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2006 Yearbook for Traditional Music 39 (2007). 178-181.
CD reviews for The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition As Sung by Abraham Lopes Cardozo, The Hasidic Niggun As Sung by the Hasidim and Oh, Lovely Parrot! Jewish Women 's Songs from Kerala. Yearbook for Traditional Music vol. 38 (2006): 142-43.
Book review to Georg Winkler, klezmer. Features, structures and trends of music cultural phenomenon. Song and Popular Culture / Song and Popular Culture. Yearbook of the German Volksliedarchiv 49 (2004): 285-321 (in English, with Rita Ottens ).
The Blessing over Coca -Cola: Between Secularity and Transcendence. Sh'ma ( September 2005/Tishrei 5766 ): 10-11.
Video review about David Kaufman, The New Klezmorim: Voices Inside the Revival of Yiddish Music. Ethnomusicology 47 (2 ) ( Spring / Summer 2003): 284-286.
Book review to Yaacov Mazor, The Klezmer Tradition in the Land of Israel, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, The Jewish Music Research Centre, 2000 Yearbook for Traditional Music 34 (2002): . 207-208.
Book review of Walter Salmen, " ... because the fiddle makes it hard ." Jewish musicians and dancers from the 13th to the 20th century. Innsbruck, Edition Helbling 1991. Musica Judaica, Journal of the American Society for Jewish Music, New York, vol. 13 ( 5755/1993-94 ): 98-108.
Book review of Walter Salmen, " ... because the fiddle makes it hard. " Jewish Musicians and dancers from the 13th to the 20th century. Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review, vol. 13, no 2 (1991 ): 23-24.
Recordings
Joel Rubin / Uri Caine Duo. Azoy Tsu Tsveyt, Tzadik, 2011.
Joel Rubin Ensemble featuring Rabbi Eli Silberstein. Nign of Reb Mendel: Hasidic Songs in Yiddish, Traditional Crossroads, 2010.
Joel Rubin Ensemble. Midnight Prayer, Traditional Crossroads, 2007.
Brave Old World. Klezmer Music, Flying Fish Records, 1991.
Joel Rubin Klezmer Band. Brave Old World, Global Village, 1988.
Jewish Music Series:
Shalom Comrade: Yiddish Music in the Soviet Union 1928-1961, Schott Wergo, 2005.
Cantor Isaac Algazi: Sweet Singer of Israel. Ottoman Jewish Music from the Early 20th Century, Scotland Wergo, in collaboration with Prof. Edwin Seroussi and Renanot Institute for Jewish Music, Schott Wergo, 2002.
Oytsres ( Treasures ): Klezmer Music 1908-1996, Schott Wergo, 1999.
Joel Rubin. Hungry Hearts: Classic Yiddish Clarinet Solos of the 1920s, Schott Wergo, 1998.
Joel Rubin Jewish Music Ensemble. Beregovski 's Khasene ( Beregovski 's Wedding ): Forgotten Instrumental Treasures from the Ukraine, Schott Wergo, 1997.
The Epstein Brothers Orchestra. Kings of Freylekh Country: A Century of Yiddish - American Music, Schott Wergo, 1995.
Joel Rubin with the Epstein Brothers Orchestra. Zeydes un Eyniklekh ( Grandfathers and Grandsons ): Jewish - American Wedding Music from the Repertoire of Dave Tarras, Schott Wergo, 1995.
Rubin and Horowitz. Bessarabian Symphony: Early Jewish Instrumental Music, Schott Wergo, 1994.
Jewish Life / Patterns of Jewish Life: Highlights from the Concert Serles "Traditional and Popular Jewish Music " Berlin 1992, Schott Wergo, 1993.
Trikont klezmer trilogy:
Yikhes (Lineage ): Early Klezmer Recordings 1911-1939, Third World, 1996 [ Yikhes: Early Klezmer Recordings from 1908 to 1939, Third World, 1991 ]
Doyres ( Generations ): Traditional Klezmer Recordings 1979-1994, Three Continents, 1995.
Shteygers (ways ). New Klezmer Music 1991-1994, Three Continents, 1995.