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Andre Hajdu
… after the war at the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. There he studied under Endre Szervánszky … Judaic a librarian at the National Library in Paris. In the early 1960s Adler returned to Israel to found the Department … to communicate with the listener through diverse styles. Clearly, his schooling in the modern Hungarian models of …
Rivka Havassy
… studies, with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry; musical and folk culture of the Sephardi community of … contacts between Ladino folk poetry and the Greek culture; early recordings of Ladino song repertoire. The subject of … judeoespañol en fuentes hebreas (siglos xv-xix); An Early 20th-century Sephardi Troubadour: The Historic …
Jehoash Hirshberg
… and his mother, Nechama, was an educator. From an early age, he was immersed in music, beginning with violin studies and later switching to … and British Palestine (the Yishuv) before 1948, and the early years of the State of Israel, with a focus on the …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … in 1906. In Jerusalem, he began working as a cantor and music teacher at the Hebrew Teacher’s college. Idelsohn was … overseer of kosher meat in a non-Jewish butchery. In my early childhood my parents lived next to the “Chor-schul” …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… immigrants, Sholom Kalib was a mainstay of Jewish music in mid-twentieth century Chicago, serving as a … he began his lifelong engagement with Western music theory, completing a doctorate at Northwestern … University on Heinrich Schenker which would become an early pillar of English-language scholarship on Schenkerian …
Robert Lachmann
… It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions … the seeds for his doctorate research of North African music. After the war, Lachmann began to study musicology … over 1,000 sound recordings, numerous research documents, early commercial records of Arabic music, and photographs …
Louis Lewandowski
… arrangements as well as introducing some of his own early four-part choral compositions. In 1866, two years … introduced a new romantic style heavily influenced by the music of Felix Mendelssohn. In 1871, Lewandowski published Kol Rinah U’Tfillah , a complete collection of music for Shabbat and Festivals. His seminal work, Todah …
Menashe Ravina
… cantor, leading a synagogue choir. Ravina received his early education at heder schools, an elementary city school, … From a young age, he actively participated in his father's musical pursuits, serving as a choir conductor in the … and the folk dances of Baruch Agadati. During his early years in Israel, Ravina played in the orchestra of …
Amalia Kedem
… Amalia Kedem is the Music Curator and an archivist of the music collection at the National Library of Israel. She … music in various venues. At the JMRC she coordinated some early stages in the development of its website, as well as …
Samuel Adler
… Massachusetts. There the young Samuel Adler displayed his musical talents at an early age. He became his father’s choir director when he was … studied conducting with Serge Koussevitzky at the Berkshire Music Center. Following his discharge from the United States …