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Israel Goldfarb
… to New York in 1893. Although he had a pleasant voice and musical talent, his brother, Samuel Eliezer Goldfarb was acknowledged as the musician in the family. While Samuel began a career in … of congregational responses and services for the yearly cycle, intended for children and for congregational …
Miriam Gideon
… Born in Greeley, Colorado. From an early age, Gideon displayed musical talents and began studying piano. Miriam continued her music studies with her uncle, Henry Gideon, an organ player …
Ami Maayani
… both Mizrahi and Ashkenazi, as well as elements of Arab music throughout his works. He is known internationally for … , and at Columbia University with Ussachewsky in the early 1960's. Among his works are: Harp Concerto (Engel … no.4, 1982). Maayani studied architecture before his music studies, and after completing his musical education, …
Rahamim Amar
… lived in the city for twenty generations. He started his music career as a trumpet player in the British Police Band, … After his release from the police, he began to play other musical instruments, especially plucked string instruments, … "Ne'im Zemirot Yisrael" choir for boys established in the early 1940s set new standards in the field in terms of …
Marcus Hast
… the rare items is Hast's earliest collection of synagogue music from 1878 which he edited in collaboration with the … regarding Hast that appeared in the yahoo group jewishulmusic : Hast claims to have published the first volume of … emerged in the 1890s and 1900s, there was in fact a very early volume from 1873 [1878, see above], which is much …
Jascha Nemtsov
… up in Saint Petersburg where he graduated from a special music school and was awarded a gold medal. He then continued … distinction. He lives in Berlin (Germany). He has recorded nearly forty CDs. Jascha Nemtsov’s repertoire is wide and … He is further specialized in Jewish artistic music of the early 20th century both as a pianist and as a …
Betty Olivero
… Italy. She is a full professor of composition at the Music Department in Bar-Ilan University. Betty Olivero is a … was awarded the Koussevitzky Award by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and the Library of Congress, Washington … form, yet is inspired by ancient Jewish and other early musical traditions. Folk material appears in rich, …
Pnina Salzman
… to conquer concert stages in Europe and in Asia in the early 1940's, even before the establishment of the State of … Moreover, with her mother assertively navigating her early career, she received lessons from many other well … But I fancy an innate sensibility and vitality of musical mind and feeling will preserve her from all that.” ( …
Oedoen Partos
… Tel Aviv 1977, immigrated in 1938) had an impact on Israeli musical life immediately after his arrival, and throughout … lecturer and teacher. A student of Kodály in the early 1920s, he emulated the Bartók-Kodály approach to … second generation of Israeli composers and musicians. His early, often-performed Concertino for strings (1932) was …
Noam Sheriff
… that also developed a career as a conductor, and as musical director of the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra … in Salzburg, and chaired the The Rubin Israel Academy of Music at Tel-Aviv University (1998-2000), where he taught … , range between light classical, based on folk tunes (early in his career) through-composed pieces with clusters, …