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Pete Sokolow
… in the Catskills span older and newer generations of Jewish musicians. Sokolow has played with many major figures in … figure in the revival of klezmer music. Sokolow has orchestrated numerous albums, musicals and films. His albums … and culture (June, 2017) Interview with Pete Sokolow , Northeastern University. Kalish Jon. In Modern Klezmer, 'The …
Abraham Salman
… one of the finest players of this instrument in the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … livelihood. Salman became a member of the Baghdad Radio Orchestra and a favored accompanist of some of Iraqi's …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing … project titled 'The Hasidic nign in RIght Bank Ukraine and East Galicia: Between Autochthonous and External … Choir, congregation and Moshe (“Mona”) Rosenbloom’s orchestra, conducted by Binyomin Hartman at a wedding …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … the most prominent practitioners and disseminators of Near Eastern urban music, and had also laid the foundation for … Broadcast Authority (IBA) —supported an Arabic music orchestra on its ‘Voice of Israel in Arabic’ channel, which …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Old World and ends with the integration into the formerly East European Jewish communities of the New World. But as … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he … and was therefore impelled to conduct small community orchestras and later on a provisional orchestra organized by …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, … of all-Jewish programs with the “Jewish minorities’ orchestra.” The events were advertised in both Yiddish and …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … and composers, from a family of musicians going back at least to his grandfather. His father, Yaakov Attias, also a … to perform with what he defined as “the Algerian National Orchestra,” in France in 1981. He preferred the Algerian …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… for Motzei Shabbat. It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual … from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/ Literary … of the piyyut was recorded live by a children’s choir with orchestral accompaniment conducted by the composer. It seems …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… such a Yiddish song. The modality is reminiscent of Middle-Eastern songs, such as the baladi songs of Syrian and … incorporate elements of Yemenite songs in combination with Eastern European motives – making this a paramount example … the 1940s, and then again in 1971 as the main theme of an orchestral piece written for the Boston Pops Orchestra …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … and commercial recordings throughout the European, Middle Eastern and American Jewish diasporas, was a crucial … a live concert of the Eretz Israel/Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra (later on Israel Philharmonic Orchestra) under …