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‘Cantor Soprano’: The Career of Julie Rosewald
… Jerusalem Session: Documenting and Performing Ashkenazi Music 3.8.09 Chair: James Loeffler Summary: Between 1884 and … at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco, singing the solo parts in all the services and directing the music of the synagogue. Julie Eichberg Rosewald, …
A Liturgy within the Liturgy: The German Torah Service in Past and Present
… Theater und Medien in Hannover (HMTMH) And the Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of … project. This study session will introduce its participants to some of the preliminary results of this join … among German-speaking Jews throughout Europe and in their American and Israeli diasporas. … "Das Pfingstfest …

Dobranotsh (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT … and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … citation. “With what sort of piece did the musicians start a wedding ( mazltov , dobranoc )?” Beregovski 1937 …

Alfred Sendrey
… Musician, conductor and musicologist Alfred Sendrey was born in 1884 in Budapest, Hungary. He received his formal musical education at the Academy of Music in Budapest. After … opera, several orchestral works, chamber music, and art songs. Later in life, while working as the musical …
Mordekhai Hershman
… figure are comparable to those showered on the greatest starts of the opera and concert stage, including quotations … El Temple, he continued to appear in concerts of classical music, record commercial records and tour throughout … wartime disruptions he was not at first well known to the American Jewish community. Word of his resplendent tenor …
Miriam Gideon
… in Greeley, Colorado. From an early age, Gideon displayed musical talents and began studying piano. Miriam continued … can be found here at the Miliken Archive of Jewish Music. … American Composer … American composers … Modern Jewish music … Piano … Professor …

Pastukhel (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT … and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … character, then it becomes more dramatic...The concluding part is a dance melody. ‘Dos pastekhl’ is one of the richest …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … a position as the head of the violin and chamber music departments at the Kharkov Conservatory. Achron's tenure there … services. In New York , Achron joined the “Mailamm,” the American-Palestine Music Association, a Jewish voluntary …
Richard Newman
… and received a master's degree from the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1937 he emigrated with his family to the United States. After receiving American citizenship, he was drafted into the US Army and … Later, as a composer, he collaborated with the UN Film Department. In the 1950s and 1960s he conducted the choirs of …