{"product_id":"songs-of-sonderling-commissioning-jewish-emigre-composers-in-los-angeles-1938-1945-paperback-softback-9781682832448","title":"Songs of Sonderling; Commissioning Jewish Émigré Composers in Los Angeles, 1938-1945 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781682832448","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSongs of Sonderling\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCommissioning Jewish Émigré Composers in Los Angeles, 1938-1945\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJonathan L. Friedmann (Author), John F. Guest (Author), Nick Strimple (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781682832448\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 January 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 6 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.406 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSongs of Sonderling\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome addition to work on music in Los Angeles, shedding new light on the work of prominent émigré composers Ernst Toch, Arnold Schoenberg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Eric Zeisl. The book also introduces Rabbi Jacob Sonderling, an unknown figure to many as well as an émigré himself. As a Jewish community leader in Los Angeles, Sonderling wisely took advantage of the many outstanding composers living in Los Angeles at the time, commissioning them to write music with a Jewish focus. Authors Jonathan L. Friedmann and John F. Guest offer an accessible and well-organized exploration of this activity. . . . I am confident this book will find a home in the study of music in Los Angeles, Jewish music, and émigré art.\" - Lily Hirsch, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern Jewish Studies\u003c\/i\u003e 22:4\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSongs of Sonderling\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Jacob Sonderling's unique contributions to Jewish liturgical music. Rabbi Sonderling was many things: a descendant of Chassidic rebbes, a rationalist, a Reform rabbi, a Zionist, an army chaplain, a celebrated orator, an artistic soul. From his early career at the Hamburg Temple and German Army service in World War I, to his wandering years in the Eastern United States and founding of the Society for Jewish Culture–Fairfax Temple in Los Angeles, Sonderling cultivated a unique aesthetic vision of Judaism, a \"five-sense appeal.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJonathan L. Friedmann and John F. Guest document and analyze Sonderling's experience and expression of Judaism through music. Rabbi Sonderling's vision yielded liturgical commissions from exiled Viennese Jewish composers who arrived in Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s. Through these musical settings, activities at the Fairfax Temple, and involvement with the Los Angeles campus of the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, Sonderling made an indelible mark on the city's Jewish community and the wider musical world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSongs of Sonderling\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the commissions Sonderling made from 1938 to 1945: Ernst Toch's \u003ci\u003eCantata of the Bitter Herbs\u003c\/i\u003e, Arnold Schoenberg's \u003ci\u003eKol Nidre\u003c\/i\u003e, Erich Wolfgang Korngold's \u003ci\u003eA Passover Psalm and Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e, and Eric Zeisl's \u003ci\u003eRequiem Ebraico\u003c\/i\u003e. Through musical analyses and an examination of Sonderling's career in Los Angeles, Friedmann and Guest contribute to the study of Jewish liturgical music, to Jewish history in the American West, to Jewish identity in the twentieth century, and to Jewish diaspora writ large.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Texas Tech University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52633793298712,"sku":"9781682832448","price":15.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/songs-of-sonderling-commissioning-jewish-emigre-composers-in-los-angeles-1938-1945-paperback-softback-9781682832448","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}