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Professor Arbie Orenstein
Music Department
Arbie Orenstein was born in New York city, attending the High School of Music and Art, Queens College and Columbia Graduate School where he received a Ph.D. in Musicology.
He is the author of Ravel: Man and Musician (Columbia University Press, 1975), reissued as a Dover paperback in 1991.
A Ravel Reader (Columbia University Press, 1990), originally written in French as - Ravel: Lettres, Ecrits, Entreiens, published by Flammarion in 1989.As a pianist, he has accompanied many outstanding cantors and has recorded the world premiers of several works by Ravel which he discovered in France while on a Fulbright grant.
Dr. Orenstein is Professor of Music at Queens College where he teaches a course in Jewish Music. He has recently written an introductory essay on the life and work of A. Z. Idelsohn for the Dover reprint of Idelsohn's classic text - Jewish Music - its Historical Development.
Recent Publications:
Ravel Reader (Columbia University Press, 1990) Ravel: Man and Musician (Columbia University Press, 1975) Songs 1896- 1914 Maurice Ravel Jewish Music -
(Introduction)
its Historical Development
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