Judge Dennis Davis
Music Meets Modern Orthodoxy: A Tribute to Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Summary
Judge Dennis Davis and Professor David Peimer, in a tribute to Rabbi Sacks, discuss the creative interaction and intersections between the secular and the orthodoxy in a late 20th- and 21st-century context. Specifically, they interweave these ideas with a comparison to the contemporary music that Rabbi Sacks appreciated, spoke about, and responded to.
Judge Dennis Davis
Dennis Davis is a judge of the High Court of South Africa and judge president of the Competition Appeals Court of South Africa. He has held professorial appointments at the University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand, as well as numerous visiting appointments at Cambridge, Harvard, New York University, and others. He has authored eleven books, including Lawfare: Judging Politics in South Africa.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.
I don’t know, but of course, Heather, what you’re referring is the concept of kol isha, the voice of women. But I’ll tell you this, he must have, because if you listen to the “Mahler 4,” the last movement has a woman’s voice. So I very much doubt that Rabbi Sacks only listened to three movements of Mahler when he spoke so eloquently about it