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Lazare Saminsky
… Jewish music to be performed in the Reform synagogues of America. This he achieved by composing his own works, … has generally been forgotten among those of the important American immigrants of the 20 th century. Sources: …
Mordekhai Hershman
… the fact that he will be the highest paid cantor in America. … music, record commercial records and tour throughout America, Europe and Palestine after 1930. An announcement of … Choir Director Leo Low heard him and invited him to go to America which he did in 1920 where he was appointed Chazan …
Solomon Rosowsky
… cantillation. In 1931, Rosowsky helped to found the America-Palestine Institute [Association] of Musical … joined the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America where he became a leading scholar in the …
Yetta Zwerling
… Yetta Zwerling was a Yiddish actress in America during the 1930s and 1940s. Born on 25 December 1894 … taken into the theatre. She immigrated with her family to America, and she began to act in children's roles in variety … then to the 'National' Theatre. Zwerling also toured across America and Canada with the stars in their repertoire. In …
Alfred Sendrey
… began a successful conducting career across Europe and America, holding posts in Cologne (1905-07), Mülhausen … West Coast campus of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1962-72). During his time at the University of …
Israel Goldfarb
… for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). As a secondary practice, he studied musical …
Aaron Copland
… at the Cos Cob Press, a publishing house for modern American Music. It was also during this period that Copland … strengthening his identity as a composer of uniquely American music. Copland also experimented with film music … Copland toured extensively throughout Europe and Latin America conducting concerts of his music and the music of …
Miriam Gideon
… and Sacred Music from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). She taught at a number of institutions, … New York (CUNY); the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1955-91); and the Manhattan School of Music … here at the Miliken Archive of Jewish Music. … 50035 … American Composer … Gidon, Myriam … American composers … …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… un klang (Word and sound), 50 yur Yiddish gezang in America (50 years of Jewish song in America), etc. As a concert singer, cantor, and lecturer, Yardeni toured several countries in America. He also performed in several European countries: …
Platon Brounoff
… the Poale Tsion Choir, the first Jewish secular choir in America. Collected over 300 Jewish folk songs, some of which … 'Brounoff, Platon,' in Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography, v1 (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1909-1914) p. 444-445.; …


