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A Man from Munkasc: Gypsy Klezmer
… festivities, dance etc.), most of the time the klezmer musicians were not Jews but Rom. In fact, the Rom had played … how this persecuted group (the Rom) saved Jewish folk music until it could be returned to the Jews. We learn about … violinist who traveled throughout the Soviet Union playing classical, Rom, Russian and klezmer music until his death …
Musika osmanit klasit be-kerev yehudei saloniki (“Ottoman Classic Music among the Jews of Saloniki”).
… ladino … 34927 … 79-92 … Tel Aviv … … Salonica … 1998 … Classical music … Saloniki … Jews … Edwin Seroussi … Musika osmanit klasit be-kerev yehudei saloniki (“Ottoman Classic Music among the Jews of Saloniki”). …
The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
… on the roof. But in the half century before 1917, Jewish musicians were actually descending from their shtetl roofs and streaming in dazzling numbers to Russia’s new classical conservatories. At a time of both rising … and burgeoning Jewish nationalism, how and why did Russian music become the gateway to modern Jewish identity? Drawing …
Milan Slavicky
… Milan Slavický was a Czech composer, musicologist, and pedagogue. He came from a musical family. His father Klement Slavický and both his … director and radio playwright, being behind more than 500 classical music recordings, with a great emphasis on …
Efraim Yaakov
… memory: (translated from Hebrew) '... Efraim, unlike the classical historian, did not look for a history only in old … and especially recruited people on the subject of the music of the Jews of southern Yemen ... '. Sources (in …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … in Berlin and Dresden opened before him the world of classical Western music. One of his very early articles in … canon (Felix Mendelssohn and Anton Rubinstein) and to classical music performance during his own period. At the …
Moritz Deutsch
… vocal talent however that brought him to Vienna to study music and the cantorial tradition. In 1842 Deutsch was … the Breslau Theological Seminary, where he taught cantorial music for over 30 years. In 1859, Deutsch helped to found … composed choral arrangements for synagogue liturgy in the classical German style which were published in the …
Uri Aharon
… researcher, author of two books and many articles in music, plays classical, Jewish and folk music on the flute. For forty-two years he was a senior …
Kurt Weill
… to the USA. In the USA he was influenced by popular music and jazz, he met several of the outstanding figures of … . All the while, he never stopped writing operas and classical music. He wrote several works for the concert hall … Hope, Israel's national anthem) … Hatikvah … Vocal music … Classical music … Kurt Weill …
Ernest Bloch
… United States in 1916, and in 1920 was appointed the first Musical Director of the fledgling Cleveland Institute of Music, a position he held until 1925. Bloch’s early works, … for the chamber ensemble and began experimenting with neo-classical forms, atonality and serialism. He died in …