Composer sets Talmud study to music
mainThe marvellous Israeli composer Andre Hajdu, who died at the beginning of this month, was a devout and learned man who saw no contradiction between his religious immersion and his advanced musical ideas.
In this clip from a TV documentary, he takes a familiar passages from the Talmud and works it through with his music students.
Yeshiva was never this much fun.
Music starts at 0:58.
French composer Charles Valentine Alkan tried the same in 19 century.
But he shortly died afterwards of Bhuddism (reaching-out for a heavvy tome on that religion standing on a ladder in his library, and falling-down).
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