"SIMCHAS TORAH (Rejoicing) from BAAL SHEM" genre: Solo Instruments
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	Three Pictures of Chassidic Life. ERNEST BLOCH (1880-1989): Born in Switzerland, he was professor of composition at Geneva Conservatory 1911-5. In 1917, he Settled in the US. A specific "Hebrew idiom" is inherent in much Of Bloch's music. His works include the operas Macbeth and Jezebel, chamber music, Symphonic poems, Israel symphony, America Symphony, concertos, the Shelomoh Rhapsody for cello and orchestra and a setting of the sabbath service.¸
	Credits: by Ernest Bloch, Rec.Eng.M.Tanzer, Piano E.L.Weiler
	Story Behind the Song Until the Jewish national school of music was founded in Russia in 1908, there was no classical Jewish school of composition until composers like Ernest Bloch created a characteristic Hebrew music using Jewish folksongs collected from eastern European countries. They tried to create a Hebrew style distinct from the folk Style of the Jewish national composers of Eastern Europe and from Synagogal music. Ernest Bloch set out to recapture in his music the spirit of the Bible, the Psalms and the Prophets. Bloch doesn't quote Synagogal or folk-music elements, but Oriental traits abound in his compositions. Among Bloch's disciples (Jewish and non Jewish) are Roger sessions, Douglas Moore, Bernard Rogers, Randall Thompson, Frederick Jacoby, Quincy Porter, Isadore Freed, Mark Brunswick and George Antheil; Some of them have written "Hebrew" works, but Bloch's Hebraic style has influenced most of their general music.

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