An Orthodox Jew who received his musical training in Budapest and Paris, the late composer Andre Hajdu settled in Israel in 1966 and became chairman of the music department at Bar Ilan University. Here he and his students set a talmudic passage to music, demonstrating how, in the words of Norman Lebrecht, Hajdu “saw no contradiction between his religious immersion and his advanced musical ideas.” The passage is the opening segment of Tractate Beitsah, which begins “An egg that was laid on a holiday . . .”. (Video, 3 minutes, in Hebrew.)
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