I am sitting on a train in Finland, responding to an email from a Brooklyn musician who studied at Jewish Theological Seminary and who has devoted herself to music about the women in the old testament. In this snowly world, thoughts of Dr. Spector, the brilliant daughter of the timber merchant of Libau, flow. She connected the ancient and contemporary worlds of Jewish music and non Jewish music, inspiring many of my compositions. Currently, I am trying to find the reference she made to the three note (likely) hydraulic organ in the old temple, an organ audible across the Jordan river. Dr. Spector invited me to her class in Jewish music history and shared her knowledge with me as fast and far as I wished to go. Though we lost touch, in learning now of her passing in 2008, she is and will be very alive for me.
I am sitting on a train in Finland, responding to an email from a Brooklyn musician who studied at Jewish Theological Seminary and who has devoted herself to music about the women in the old testament. In this snowly world, thoughts of Dr. Spector, the brilliant daughter of the timber merchant of Libau, flow. She connected the ancient and contemporary worlds of Jewish music and non Jewish music, inspiring many of my compositions. Currently, I am trying to find the reference she made to the three note (likely) hydraulic organ in the old temple, an organ audible across the Jordan river. Dr. Spector invited me to her class in Jewish music history and shared her knowledge with me as fast and far as I wished to go. Though we lost touch, in learning now of her passing in 2008, she is and will be very alive for me.