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Moshe Koussevitsky
… musical protégé and at the age of eight joined a synagogue choir in Smorgon under the direction of Hazzan Ephraim …
Zawel (Zevulun) Kwartin
… to the cantorial tradition through his involvement in the choir of a local synagogue. Kwartin went on to study …
Marc Lavry
… for the radio station, Lavry established a permanent choir to perform live for the broadcasts. Lavry was also a …
Israel Lovy
… the Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth introduced the use of a choir and organ and commissioned Lovy to compose a new … service to compliment these reforms. These compositions for choir and organ, along with other earlier works, were …
Pinhas Minkowski
… and supplemented his basic musical education by joining the choir of Cantor Nissan Spivak . Minkowski took over Spivak’s …
Arno Nadel
… Eduard Birnbaum , first as a participant in his all boy-choir, and then as a private cantorial student. In 1895 … and upon graduation settled there as an educator and choirmaster for the Kottbuser Ufer Synagogue. Nadel became …
Nahum Nardi
… Square Garden in New York. Nardi established a girls' choir, and invited the singer Ahuva Tsadok to sing in it. …
Sholom Secunda
… stores. At the age of seven Sholom was invited to join the choir of the Great Synagogue in Nicholayev under the tutelage of choirmaster Monsieur Kurich. The second large wave of … recruited by Cantor Bezalel Brown to sing for the Synagogue choir, the largest and wealthiest congregation in …
Mordekhai Seter
… Vigil ( Tikkun Hatzot ), an oratorio for tenor, three choirs and orchestra depicting the redemption of the Jewish … his career with mostly vocal music, such as Motets (choir, 1939-40/1951), becoming known since his 1940 Sabbath … Legend of Judith (1964) and Jerusalem , a symphony for choir and orchestra (1966). Seter wrote 46 pieces in his …
Gershon Sirota
… boy’s talent. After hearing Sirota’s service, Yakovkin, the choirmaster of the Shalashna Synagogue in Odessa , pursued Sirota until he agreed to join his choir. Consequently, Gershon’s parents moved to Odessa , … It was in Vilna that Sirota began his collaboration with choirmaster Leo Low , who would remain a close colleague …