Iletiallf lavish Periodical Carter

CLIFTON MMUS • MONO=

19

THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

Isaac Van Grove Describes Musical Background
Of Great Spectacle "The Romance of a People"

Director of Pageant States That It Dates Back at Least 2,500 Years; Says
Music Is Distinctly Hebraic, Some of It Having Arabic
Influence; Pageant To Be Staged Here April 16.

D S. Dta-
Rubenstein: Hadassah. by Ws
Loan Association. by °rod
mond. Hebrew nee
Al
ie
.
BM.: H artle
notiOn
Ladies'
Auxiliary.
Weisman. Hone,. of
Ethel Subar, Jewish Daily Forward, by J.
J.
Heideman: Jewish Old Folks HUM., hr
Levin: Jewish Old Folks Home. Northweetern

branch. by Mrs. MIDI Lewis,
soon. Old
Folks Horne Auxiliary. by II L Sarasohn.
arry
Junior Ilachodah. by Miss Anna H. n-
National Fund. by H
son. JUIliUr Jewish
Kvutsah lad.
Nathanson and Lewis Landman ,
Auxiliary.
tr
Mrs
Samuel
8chubiner,
10 -
Kttesh lvrith. by 0 Hecker and David Itit•
o
League 0v Jeatith Women. by Mrs
benstem,

Temehin
Abe Srere. //Wahl Youth, by Max
Clamage.
Mimic Study Club. by Mrs Burton
by Mrs.
National Council Cl Jewish Women.
Fred A Olnsburg • M rs
N
Cohn,
United Hebrew Schools. by Harry
s H Kraft. B. Imam Nana liiruh•
Pane. Mn.
horn. WOO BaberbiStt. llnIted Hebrew &Imola
Women's Auxillary, by Mrs. Max Hayman. Mrs
M It Zackhelm. Young Israel. by Abraham J
Rosenshine and Paul Miner Wi•dsor Jewish
Club by N. M Setter; Windsor Talmud Tor-
and
ah. by M Nesse!. al Nobel. J Omaha

YOUTI1 Peoples Soclety or Wnst
M nosermsn.
David. by H Ar0110, BerlOW and t:
the Zedsk•h Club by 8 Blob.
Leone and

Your Next Chevrolet---

The world's finest automobile, plus

personalized service ... will bring you
more style, more comfort. more satis-

faction, more miles per dollar than any

car you have ever owned.

Congratulating• -

"Romance of a People"

S. S. Shapero

Shapero Chevrolet Co.

8832 Van Dyke

Maurice Shore —Special Representative

Congratulating

Cut COUrtMV Detroit News.

model of the stage to be erected in the Olympia for the presentation of the pageant
The above is ■
"The Romance of • People," under the direction of Isaac Van Grove, beginning with Monday, April
16. Inset is Meyer W. Weisgal, general director of the pageant.
enabled them to endure their
folk spirit whose origin is less
certain. wretchedness. They ignored the
By ISAAC VAN GROVE

Taken from sources whose or-
igin is Its ancient as that of the
Hebrew race, whose spirit it ex-

The difficulty in recreating the outer world and dedicated them-
ancient Hebrew music is due to selves to frank joyousness. They

the fact that it was not written danced and sang with savage
out but was merely indicated by 'abandon. The Chassidic rhythm
probably influenced by Byron-
pressed, the music used in The "Pro " which would seem to he Wn,
tium. The Chassidic dance, which
Romance of a People," the mu- the same sort of memory Joggers accompanies the music, is the only
sical and dramatic spectacle to be as what in the medieval music of dance in the world created out of
Europe were called "Neumes."
humility.
presented at Olympia, beginning
A "trop" is a cryptic sign of
April It, dates hack, in largest
The Ilebrew music proves that
varying form placed above or un-
part, at least 2,500 years.
der a word. The melodies were the Gregorian chant is very
The product of years of collec- taught by ear, and each trap re- closely related to the music that
tion by Dr. A. D. Idelsohn, pro- minded the singers of the note or was heard in the Temple at Jeru-
fessor of Jewish music at the He- vocal turn demanded. A further salem. "Shuva, Shure," the song
brew Union College, Cincinnati, difficulty is found in the fact that of the Jewish slaves in Egypt, is
is incorporated in a majority of the meanings were not uniform, obviously similar to the Gregorian
the chants of the pageant.
that a trop meant one note or mode. Resemblance to the chant
The music is distinctly He.
one vocal device here and some- is also to be found in "Hallelu-
an
■
braic, some of it having
thing quite different there. How- jah," an ecstatic song of exalta-
Arabic influence, the rhythmic
ever, the score for the pageant tion in the pageant.
Among the groups represented
structure is very much as it is
has been written out in modern
used in modern composition, the
notes with the utmost accuracy. at the meeting, and who have in-
rhythm varying from bar to bar.
Throughout the score use is
dicated their intention of work-
The accent upon the word dom-
made of Yemenite, Persian or
Spanish Jewish melodies. The ing shoulder-to-shoulder to bring
inates and determines what the

rhythm shall be. In a composi-
music to the dance of Miriam is to the Olympia every possible man,
tion like "Borchi Nafshi," which
of ■ desert type and may even woman and child in Detroit, are
is to be heard in the prologue,
be heard today among the der v-
the following:
Aimwell Club, represented by R. Bernstein.
■ Creation s cene, there are dis-
'shes of the Sudan.
Untied lieblele Schools. Alumni, by Max Weine,
tinct resemblances to Stravin•
The outstanding composition in
b d, ,.
sky. In "Judith" of Honegger
j:I
rrw RI:',7',,', 1° ,,, PEL.T n n ,"ge•naj.riM,
the pageant that, is of late origin
there are almost identical
pset. a. Rubin and J. Utak,:
is the "Dudele," a Chas=idic mel- lua u A (u
I
1.nd.Pe
,
probably
taken
from
tt,
'3.Z
.
war,
g.:
lyre,
ph
symbolizing the joy in hu-
Harvey Deere
the same source. Thus, modern Otly
wesi
mility of this middle nineteenth m. ?moths. nbaum,
Moshe,
by YOUR(
mbined
M 8 Oree
music finds some of its a ncestry
Jewish sect. Over- Organisation , by Sally Cohen.
century
,„,,, ,,„,,, b , ,,,,,,,,, ,,,„,,, ,,,-,.
i -the primitiveness o Of Hebrew
b
c„„,
tter w.helmed by the persecution which
Many of the latter
rr ti,bp , ..Trgi n telr and A. tckste:
melodies
ere- surrounded them in the l'olish and st,,s,tvel
were probably Dark of the s
Jews 'Feder, Delray Lledies..Aitallit!ryely'');ks Adolph
countries, these
Fox. Oviiroth Kvittealt Dank by Mrs. D
in
the
Temple
at
Jerusalem.
Russian
ices
mystical outlook that
Other. are expressions of the I adopted a

4‘11 11E ROMANCE
OF A PEOPLE"

An Amazing Production ...

Staged in an Unforgettable

Manner ... A Vivid Drama-

tization, Carrying a Vital

and Timely Message!

MALCOMSON COAL

Townsend 6.1111

Delivery

HOTTER

THAY

"heat Merchants for
1 ' 1V° Generations"

StfaRIINE

MSON

OAL

Equipped to fill every fuel require-
ment with coal and coke of the

finest quality. Prompt, Courteous .

Efficient Service!

YOU Always Save at

Cumin ham's

Zatnenucat DRUG STORES

THERE'S ONE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD