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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Apollo Ensemble's Jewish Baroque

Posted on 5:25 AM by Unknown
This review, which somehow had disappeared into the Intertube ether, covers a concert heard last week.


Solomon Alexander Hart, The Feast of the Rejoicing of the Law at the Synagogue in Leghorn, Italy, 1850 (The Jewish Museum, New York)
The architecture and decoration of Jewish synagogues was often similar in style to Christian or Islamic structures: Roman-style frescoes in Dura-Europos, the
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