Скачать или смотреть Composer Simon Sargon comments on his "Azkara -- A Jewish Requiem" composition

Composer Simon Sargon (1938-2022) offers meaningful insights on why and how he composed "Azkara -- A Jewish Requiem," the first Jewish Requiem ever written. His comments were recorded at the 2nd Maryland Jewish Choral Festival in March 2022, just nine months before the composer's passing.

Simon Sargon, Professor Emeritus of Composition in Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University, had a distinguished reputation as a composer, pianist and educator. He held a B.A. from Brandeis University and a master’s degree in composition from the Juilliard School. He taught at the Juilliard School and Sarah Lawrence College and, before arriving in Dallas in 1973, served for three years as chair of the Voice and Opera Department at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. As director of music at Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, he created a program of Jewish music that received national acclaim.

A prominent voice for music in the community, Simon Sargon presented opera previews for the Dallas Opera and served on the Board of Directors of the Dallas Symphony. In 1983 Sargon joined the music faculty of Meadows School of the Arts as director of the Opera Theatre. With SMU colleagues, he made recordings and concertized extensively. He received the Meadows Foundation Distinguished Teaching Professor Award in 2009.