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ABOUT TSIPPI FLEISCHER
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Angelini, Andrea. Tsippi Fleischer at the Mirror
In: International Choral Bulletin (2011), pp. 40-44. |
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Andrea Anglini, editor of International Choral Bulletin, interviews Tsippi Fleischer about her choral music. Among the topics discussed: stylistic syntheses in Fleischer’s music; her settings of texts in different languages, especially in Arabic; the role of politics and feminism in her creative work; and more. Angelini Tsippi Fleischer at the Mirror |
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Assaf,
Oded. A Bridge Over Troubled Waters
In: New Outlook (Middle East Monthly). Tel Aviv, April 1987. |
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An early coverage of Tsippi Fleischer as a western composer
dealing with Arab culture. Following on the 1986 LP record
including Girl Butterfly Girl to texts by contemporary
Lebanese and Syrian poets. |
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Azrielov,
Asher. A dynamo named Fleischer (in Hebrew)
n: Musica, Vol. 4 [Multidisciplinary music quarterly under the auspices of Jeunesses Musicales Israel]. Haifa, Winter 1998. |
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Asher Azrielov relates to two discs of the composer's
music which were issued in 1997: "Around the World
with Tsippi Fleischer" [VMM #2023] and "Medea"
[Kol Israel]. He does this in a style combining critique
with journalistic survey. The quarterly Musica was the
only Hebrew language journal on musical subjects to appear
in Israel at the time. |
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Berger,
Yael. Setting Miriam Yalan Shtekelis' poems to music
[The Clock Wants to Sleep]* (in Hebrew)
In: Hed HaGan [Quarterly for Education of Infants, published by the Teachers' Organization]. Tel Aviv, March 1989.
*Documentation after the composer's lecture in a conference at the Levinsky College, organized by the Levin Kipnis Center for Children's Literature.
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In her lecture at a meeting under the auspices of the
Levin Kipnis Center for Children's Literature at the Levinsky
College [1988], the composer presented three examples
of settings to poems by M. Y. Shtekelis: Paul Ben-Haim,
Shmulik Kraus, and her own composition for children's
choir. The stylistic variety was illustrated with a live
presentation of The Clock Wants to Sleep by Tsippi
Fleischer. The educationalist Yael Berger summarized the
event in a documentary article. |
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Binyamini,
Yaffa. Four Songs – Impressions of a Listener.
In: Music for Small Ensembles (Hataklit 35362, 1986) |
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A short paper on Tsippi Fleischer’s song cycle Girl Butterfly Girl, from the booklet accompanying the premiere recording of this work, in her album Music for Small Ensembles. Binyamini Girl Butterfly Girl |
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Binyamini,
Yaffa. From contemporary Arabic
poetry (in Hebrew)
In: Alei Si'ach [Kibbutz Movement's Courses in Literature]. Tel Aviv, Autumn 1986. |
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Dr Yaffa Binyamini, literary expert and significant educational
figure, included Fleischer's song-cycle Girl Butterfly
Girl to texts by contemporary Lebanese and Syrian
poets, in an extensive rationale on the teaching of contemporary
Arabic poetry. Alei Siach is a journal widely read by
literary figures. |
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Binyamini,
Yaffa. A musical bridge - Tsippi Fleischer
(in Hebrew)
In: Apiryon, Vol. 8 [Bulletin of Literature, Culture and Society]. Ramat Gan, Winter 1987/8. |
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Dr Yaffa Binyamini's comprehensive article on the composer for the journal Apiryon in which she lays
special emphasis on the integration of the Orient into Israeli culture. She surveys Tsippi Fleischer's journey
in this direction at great length.
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Brosch,
Renate. Leben - staendige Wiedergeburt
In: Viva Voce. Frankfurt, Summer 2003. |
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Tsippi Fleischer describes in the course of an extensive
interview her ouvre, towards the European premiere of
the opera Medea. |
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Buechter-Roemer,
Ute. Tsippi Fleischer
- Medea
In: Viva Voce (Frau und Musik Bulletin). Frankfurt, Summer 2004. |
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A review after the European premiere of the opera Cain
and Abel in prestigious Oper Koeln [April 2004], written
by one of the members of Frau und Musik Archive who were
hosted in Cologne during the staging of the opera. |
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Diets,
Ricarda. Musikalische
Spurensuche einer Tochter Israels
In: Viva Voce (Frau und Musik Bulletin). Frankfurt, Summer 2004. |
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An article reviewing the composer's visit to Frankfurt,
July 2003; she came from Israel specially for the event
and exhibition in the Frau und Musik Archive before the
European premiere of Medea in Cologne which took
place about six months later. |
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Elkoshi,
Rivka. Tsippi Fleischer
In: Annaeherung X (Furore Verlag). Kassel, 1999. |
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An extended biographical article on the composer, her
works and style, up until 1999. The article was included
in the 10th volume of the Annaeherung series published
by Furore - Kassel [Germany], an encyclopedia-in-preparation
of women composers throughout history. |
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| Elkoshi,
Rivka. Tsippi Fleischer's "The Judgment of Solomon"
- a Listening Experiment and its Ramifications for Music
Education (in Hebrew) |
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The operatic scene "The Judgment of Solomon" served
as the basis for an experimental project involving schoolchildren.
The purpose of the experiment was to examine the work's
educational value for children who have studied the story
as part of their Bible Studies class. One aim of the study
was to examine whether any conclusions could be drawn
from this specific experiment on the general value of
musical works for the teaching of Biblical narratives.
Rivka Elkoshi's article (a version of which also appears
in the book "The Judgment of Solomon: An Interdisciplinary
Approach to a Biblical Story") presents the experimental
process and the conclusions drawn from it. The article
includes
reproductions of children's paintings, inspired by the
musical work.
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Fleisher,
Robert. Tsippi Fleischer
In: Twenty Israeli Composers - Voices of a Culture (Wayne State University Press). USA, 1997. |
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Robert Fleisher defined the composer as one of the 20
outstanding figures of Israeli art music. In the chapter
devoted to her, he lays a special emphasis on her work
Lamentation [op. 16]. |
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Glickman, Sylvia & Martha Furman Schleifer.
From Convent to Concert Hall: A Guide to Women Composers
Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2003; p. 261 |
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This encyclopedic tome surveys over 200 active women composers from around the world. The entry on Tsippi Fleischer is on p. 261. |
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Gray, Anne. The World of Women in Classical Music.
San Diego, CA: WordWorld Publications, 2007, p. 153. |
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A comprehensive survey of women in classical music, encompassing both performers and composers. Tsippi Fleischer’s entry is on p. 153. |
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Van Hage, Kees. A Crazy Desire for Unity: Tsippi Fleischer’s Fifth Symphony: Israeli Jewish Collage.
In: Min-Ad: Israeli Studies in Musicoology Online 9 (2011), pp. 60-71 |
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A comprehensive analysis of Tsippi Fleischer’s Fifth Symphony – its sources, its stylistic and structural principles, the relationship between the composer’s intentions and the work, and the combination of East and West within the composition.
Kees van Hage on Fleischer’s Fifth Symphony. |
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Hartum,
Shosh Abramovitz (editor and interviewer). An Interview
with Tsippi Fleischer (in Hebrew).
In: Israel Conservatories and Music Schools website, 2008
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The interview includes, among other things, a discussion
of Fleischer's combination of East and West, and the challenge
this poses to performers. It also discusses Fleischer's
contribution to the study and teaching of Hebrew song.
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Hirshberg,
Yehoash. Fleischer Tsippi
In: The New Grove Dictionary (edition 2000). London, 2000. |
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The entry on the composer included in the important, reader-friendly musical dictionary, Grove's, in the
issue of 2000 [the last]. The entry was written by Prof. Hirshberg, doyen of the researchers and documenters
of established Israeli art music.
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Hirshberg,
Yehoash. Tsippi Fleischer:
Musician between East and West
In: Ariel No. 76 (Bulletin of the Cultural and Scientific Relations Division of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Jerusalem, 1989. |
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Prof. Yehoash Hirshberg, outstanding expert on Israeli
art music, wrote a comprehensive article on Tsippi Fleischer's
significant position in the perspective of "between East
and West" in Israeli music. The article was published
as early as the 80s in Ariel, the prestigious journal
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Hebrew, as well
as in 4 other languages [English, French, German, Spanish]. Musician
between East and West |
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Kenrick, Eva. Review of “Tsippi Fleischer:
The Box of Late Opuses”
In: IAWM Journal 19/2 (2013), pp. 34-35 |
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A detailed article on Tsippi Fleischer’s CD Box of Late Opuses, which features her compositions A Letter from Naguib Mahfouz, The Animals’ Wish, Symphony No. 6 and Avram. Box of Late Opuses – IAWM review |
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| Koch, Gerhard. Lecture on Tsippi Fleischer |
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A transcript of a lecture that Gerhard Koch, music critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung, delivered at the launch of the Tsippi Fleischer website hosted by the Israel National Library Music Division. Koch’s lecture surveyed major aspects in Fleischer’s composition. It included audio examples from Like Two Branches, Medea and the Fifth Symphony, and also referenced the First Symphony and other works. In his lecture, Koch placed Fleischer’s style and oeuvre within global musical trends, and in particular compared her aesthetics with that of the European avant-garde. Koch Jerusalem lecture on Fleischer |
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Miller, Malcolm. Dreams of Coexistence: Composer Tsippi Fleischer in Conversation with Malcolm Miller.
In: Jewish Renaissance (January 2011), pp. 38-39 |
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An interview on Tsippi Fleischer and a survey of her compositions, focusing on the children’s opera Oasis and other works which combine Arabic elements, in the text and/or in the musical style. Miller Dreams of Co-Existence |
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Morris,
Jane. Remaining Composed
In: IAM (International Arts Manager Journal). London, October 1998. |
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In her article in the widely read British journal IAM
which deals with well-known and sought-after cultural
events on music- and dance-stages throughout the world,
Jane Morris devotes a place of honor to Tsippi Fleischer
and her operatic scene The Judgement of Solomon.
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Pendle,
Karin (editor). Tsippi
Fleischer
Included in the chapter: 20th Century Women in Europe, Israel, Australia and New Zealand. In: Women and Music - A History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2nd edition). USA, 2000. |
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A comprehensive biographical article by the well-known American musicologist Karin Pendle who specializes
in research on contemporary music written by women composers throughout the world. Updated to 2000.
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Review
of "Oratorio 1492-1992"
In: Musical Performance, Vol. 1, part 4 (Overseas Publishers Association). Amsterdam, 1997. |
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A survey of Oratorio 1492-1992 by Tsippi Fleischer
- partly review and partly research - after the work's
issue on a disc, Music from Six Continents [VMM #3013].
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Ron, Hanoch. The Israeli Composer Tsippi Fleischer in Interview with Dr. Hanoch Ron.
Self-published by Hanoch Ron, 1991 |
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This interview was held on 5 May 1991, shortly after the end of the First Gulf War. It focuses, as Ron indicates, on Fleischer’s way of “bringing together two worlds – that of Western music with all its historical strata, and that of the Arab music with its unique qualities”. Hanoch Ron 1991 interview |
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Seter,
Ronit (and Shiloah, Amnon). Fleischer
Tsippi
In: Judaica, edition 2006. |
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An extensive biographical study, updated to June 2005, in the Jewish encyclopedia Judaica, written by
Ronit Seter - an important younger generation research worker in the field of Israeli art music. For the printed text, click here. For the entry on the Encyclopedia Judaica website, click here.
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| Shiloah, Amnon. Tsippi Fleischer – Between East and West – the Search for Cultural Identity in Israeli Music |
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The musicologist Prof. Amnon Shiloah - a prominent expert on Arabic music and author of Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-Cultural Study - offers a survey of Tsippi Fleischer's major works in Arabic, and discusses the combination of Arab and Western musical elements in these works. These paragraphs are drawn from a short article written in 1990, and intended for publication in the French periodical
Levant. Amnon Shiloah |
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Somekh, Sasson. Girl – Butterfly – Girl: Translations have their own melody.
In: Music for Small Ensembles (Hataklit 35362, 1986). |
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A shorty survey by the scholar and translator Prof. Sasson Somekh on the principles that guided his translation of contemporary Arabic poetry to Hebrew in his 1973 anthology of Arab poetry, from which Tsippi Fleischer drew the poems she set in her cycle Girl Butterfly Girl. The article appears in the booklet accompanying the premiere recording of this work, in her album Music for Small Ensembles. Sasson Somekh Girl Butterfly Girl |
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Tischler, Alice.
A Descriptive Bibliography of Art Music by Israeli Composers, 2nd edition
Sterling Heights, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2011, pp. 130-135 |
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A new edition of Tischler’s lexical survey of Israeli composers. Tsippi Fleischer’s entry is on pp. 130-135. |
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Warshauer, Meira. Review of “Oasis: Music of Tsippi Fleischer”
In: IAWM Journal 19/1 (2013), pp. 36-37 |
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A review of the CD Oasis, which contains – in addition to the children’s opera – Fleischer’s Erasure and Moderna. IAWM Review of Oasis |
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Yaar, Avishai. Ten Fragments for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon: Bits and pieces of an Arabic maqām
In: Music for Small Ensembles (Hataklit 35362, 1986) |
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Short paper on Fleischer’s Ten Fragments, from the booklet accompanying the premiere recording of this work, in her album Music for Small Ensembles. Yaar’s analysis, which includes music exmaples, focuses on the composer’s use of the Saba-zamzama maqam, alongside other textural and formal aspects, and on the interrelationships between the three instruments. Avishai Yaar: Ten Fragments |
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Zelig,
Varda. Sounds, scents
and colors - A conversation with composer Tsippi Fleischer
(in Hebrew)
In: Ton Movil, Vol. 14 [Bulletin of Hallel, Israel Choir Association]. Tel Aviv, May 2002. |
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Conductor Varda Zelig, one of the key figures in "Hallel"
describes in detail the composer's language and approach
in her vocal works. A special emphasis is placed on Scenes
of Israel - Six Madrigals for mixed chorus. The article
is based on an in-depth interview with the composer. Varda Zelig: Sounds, Scents and Colors |
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