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Nahum Nardi
… to Palestine, their relationship became strained, owing partly to a professional dispute. The dispute, according to … with singers of different origin, such as Sarah Ye'ari and Marta Schlamme , producing somewhat different results. As a … performed at Habimah Theater in 1947. In the medium of art music, Nardi composed several piano pieces, such as: …
Sholom Secunda
… In November 1907 Mr. Wolf, a manager of cantors and concert artists in New York, offered to help pay for the Secunda … to charge $100 for a Shabbat service. Sholom got his start in Yiddish theater shortly after arriving to New York … Cooper Union, he applied and was accepted to the Music Department at Columbia College. Sholom was ultimately unhappy …
Mordekhai Seter
… by the 1940's. Unlike the other Founding Fathers of Israeli art music, he spent six years of his adolescence in Eretz … 1940-1968, share characteristics with his friends Oedoen Partos and Alexander Boskovich . Many are based on tunes or … ballets commissioned for the company of the legendary Martha Graham, such as The Legend of Judith (1964) and …
Mattityahu Shelem
Born in Zamoscz, Poland. Immigrated to Palestine in 1922, settled in Kibbutz Bet-Alfa…
Wolf Shestapol
… works. His works were strongly influenced by European art music to which he was exposed to while singing with …
Gershon Sirota
… what would be a long and successful career as a recording artist. In 1908, Sirota was invited to Warsaw where he was … … Hazzanut … Odessa … Opera … Singer … Tenor … Recording … Artist … Performer … Gershon Sirota …
Johanna L. Spector
… producing several documentaries , and she published many articles concerning these cultures. Spector also assembled a …
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
… the Rubin Music Academy (1948-1952); and the musicology department of the Hebrew University (1965-1970), where he … written over 20 chamber pieces, including three string quartets (1959, 1964, 1976), and over 12 pieces for his … Episodes , five methodical piano pieces including a chart of the rows and composer’s analysis. His orchestral …
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
… Ushitsa, who taught him solfege and sight singing. He participated in many local synagogue choirs, studying under … two collections of Hassidic Melodies, and a plethora of articles dealing with Jewish liturgical music and the …
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
… the envoys of God, and the prophets.” In an effort on the part of the Italian government to advance racial and national propaganda through the arts, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s music was banned from the radio … his time working in Hollywood , he also continued composing art music, producing a corpus of 70 orchestral works and …