Outstanding Concerts and Lecture in May, Sponsored by the Melton Center for Jewish Studies

From St. Petersburg to Jerusalem: 100 Years of Jewish Musical Renaissance
Steven Michael Glaser, piano
Monday, May 1, 2006, 8 p.m.
Weigel Auditorium,1866 College Road
(OSU Union Garage is the closest parking to Weigel Hall)
THIS LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Inspired by their culture, their religious tradition, and Zionism, Jewish composers from many lands crafted a rich literature in a great variety of styles during the 20th century. This program of solo piano music showcases works by Joseph Achron, Ernest Bloch, Paul Ben-Haim, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Lazare Saminsky. Co-sponsored by OSU's School of Music.

André Hajdu: Musical Visionary from Jerusalem
André Hajdu and Chamber Ensemble
Monday, May 8, 2006, 8 p.m.
Weigel Auditorium,1866 College Road
(OSU Union Garage is the closest parking to Weigel Hall)
THIS LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Israeli composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist Andre Hajdu was born in Budapest in 1932. A student at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, he left Hungary in 1956 and lived in Paris and Tunis, before settling in Jerusalem in 1966, where he joined the Jewish Music Research Center. Hajdu's compositional style defies easy characterization. The influences of Bartok, Kodaly, and Milhaud mingle with his special affinity for Jewish tradition. This chamber music concert will offer a rare opportunity to hear the composer perform his own works. Co-sponsored by OSU's School of Music.

Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and Christian Identity in Early Modern England
Sunday, May 21, 2006, 7:30 p.m.
Longaberger Alumni House
2200 Olentangy River Road
(315 to Lane Avenue exit, turn east on Lane, then north on Olentangy River Road)
THIS LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Early Modern Jewish History and Director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham B. Mordecai Farissol (Cincinnati, Ohio, Hebrew Union College Press, 1981), for which he received the JWB National Book Award in Jewish History in 1982, Kabbalah, Magic and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1988), and A Valley of Vision: The Heavenly Journey of Abraham Ben Haniniah Yagel (Philadelphia, Pa., University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990).