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Frederick Piket
… at Hebrew Union College, and served on the faculty of the Hartt School of Music and New York University. Piket valued …
David Beyglman
… were deported to the Lodz ghetto in the northern Baluty quarter of the city. The ghetto was officially sealed on April …
Julius Chajes
… 1933. One year later he was appointed head of the piano department at the Beit L'viyim Music Academy of Tel Aviv. In … in Vienna was held for Chajes, where his first string quartet (written at the age of 13) was performed, along with a performance by the famed Rose Quartet of his his second string quartet. During his stay …
Lazare Saminsky
… and the piece Ch’siddish . In 1913 Saminsky was part of the 'An-ski' expedition in which he collected …
Boris Thomashefsky
… Lebedeff , and many others. In 1903, Thomashefsky became a partner at the People’s Theater on the Lower East Side along …
Gideon Klein
… of twelve, Klein moved to Prague to study music and liberal arts at the Jirasek Gymnasium. While in Prague, he … of Jewish colleagues and friends. Klein’s commitment to the arts continued even after his deportation to Theresienstadt. … Klein was appointed the head of the Instrumental Music department in the Administration of Free Time Activities ( …
Hans Krása
… to perform the piece. Again in 1913, Hans’ string quartet was performed by members of a spa orchestra in the … musicians, Krása often preferred to socialize and work in partnership with artists, writers and those involved in avant-garde theater. …
Emanuel Zamir
… He was also the commander of the National Base for the Arts. Following his discharge from military service in 1950, … a band that prepared a Hebrew folksong for performance. Apart from these small bands, Zamir also established a main … hopeless struggle against foreign music, in 1948, Zamir started broadcasting on all of the radio stations, playing …
Rafael Schächter
… and in quality. The arrival of pianist Gideon Klein was particularly opportune; he arranged Czech, Slovak, Hebrew and … Operas for performance in Terezín, including Smetana's The Bartered Bride and The Kiss , and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute . Schächter …
Egon Ledeč
… first chamber ensemble in Terezín, known as the “Doctor’s Quartet” along with Dr. Ilona Král, violinist Viktor Kóhn, and Dr, Klapp. The Doctor’s Quartet staged weekly performances of Haydn, Beethoven and Dvořák quartets in Dr. Klapp’s apartment. Ledeč later formed the …