Ernest Bloch is best known for his composition Schelomo for cello and large orchestra but he wrote a ton of music for “large orchestra.” We take an esoteric look at his Avodath Hakodesh: Sacred ...

A fund of $100,000 has been set aside by the family of the late Jacob and Rosa Stern, wealthy San Francisco music lovers, to provide an income for ten years for Ernest Bloch, noted composer of Jewish ...

https://doi.org/10.13169/reorient.3.1.0004 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/reorient.3.1.0004 Copy URL The question of the influence of Islamic philosophy on ...

wasn't just Oregon's most famous composer. He was also an accomplished photographer who composed images as musical as his symphonies. A photograph of a massive tree punching up through the ground ...

This time the hosts interview Jonathan Greenaway about his new book A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: An Introduction to the Work of Ernst Bloch. They discuss where Bloch came from, the uses of utopian ...

When you encounter Ernest Bloch’s “Schelomo,” you’re struck by an immediate feeling of profundity and deep emotional vulnerability. As cellist Joshua Roman recalls, “The first recording I heard was of ...

Classical composer Eric Zeisl had a tough time living in mid-20th century Los Angeles. The somber, heavy-browed Austrian, who left Nazi-dominated Europe in 1938, stated that the two things he hated ...

For all of the attention lavished upon West Coast composers lately, one who has mostly escaped the net is Ernest Bloch. Though Swiss-born, Bloch lived a good deal of his life on the West Coast, ...

The German Jewish philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), not to be confused with the Swiss Jewish composer Ernest Bloch, is still remembered for such landmark books as “The Spirit of Utopia,” “The ...

This workshop investigates the changing ideas about human nature and the human relationship with nature through the works of German Jewish Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885-1977). This workshop ...