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The Bride Under the Lemon Tree
with Dr. Judith Cohen
Description
Hear the ballads of long-ago kings and queens and the weddings songs of everyday people as ethnomusicologist and singer Dr. Judith Cohen delves into the music of Moroccan Jews. Although Morocco has been home to Jewish communities for some 2,000 years, around the time of the 1492 Alhambra Decree, which banished Jews from Spain, Jews began arriving in Morocco from the Iberian Peninsula. To this day, their descendants speak and sing in haketía, Moroccan Judeo-Spanish. With colourful images and both recorded and live music examples, Dr. Cohen explores this tradition and its sounds
This talk is free with the purchase of Museum Admission.
This talk is free with the purchase of Museum Admission.
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