Hankus Netsky
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Hankus Netsky (b.
Education
Netsky holds a Ph.D. in
Career
He has taught Yiddish Music at Hebrew College, the New England Conservatory, and Wesleyan University, and has lectured extensively on the subject in the US, Canada, and Europe. He has also designed numerous Yiddish culture exhibits for the Yiddish Book Center, where he served as Vice President for Education. His essays on klezmer music have been published by the University of California Press, the University of Pennsylvania Press, the University of Scranton Press, the University Press of America, and Hips Road.
He is currently an instructor in
Honors and awards
He has been the recipient of the New England Conservatory's outstanding alumni award and the Yosl Mlotek Award for the perpetuation of Yiddish culture, and was honored twice by New England Conservatory for excellence in teaching with the Louis Krasner and Lawrence Lesser awards.
Compositions
His film scores include, Theo Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem (2013), The Fool and the Flying Ship(1991), a Rabbit Ears children's video narrated by Robin Williams, The Forward: From Immigrants to Americans (1989), and The Double Burden: Three Generations of Working Women (1992). He adapted and composed the scores to the musicals Shlemiel the First (1994) (for the American Repertory Theatre) and King of the Schnorrers (2013), and composed the incidental music for the NPR radio series, Jewish Stories From Eastern Europe and Beyond.
His other significant compositions include The Trees Of The Dancing Goats, for Rabbit Ears Radio (PRI), and Chagall's Mandolins, commissioned by the Niew Sinfonietta of Amsterdam.
References
- ^ "Hankus Netsky's Oral History". Yiddish Book Center.
- ^ Schwank, Alexander Lapkin (August 2015). "Hankus Netsky". Hadassah Magazine.
External links
- Klezmer Conservatory Band Biographies Archived 2014-12-25 at the Wayback Machine
- An essay about Polish Jewish musicians by Netsky
- Hankus Netsky at IMDb
- Short Biography and Interviews With Hankus Netsky
- Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia; Temple University Press, 2017.