(887 results found)
Ya'akov Orland
… Yaacob Orland was born in 1914 in Tetiev, Ukraine, to Eliezer and Batya Orland. At age five, he survived a pogrom … to Jerusalem with the Hotzvim Company. Orland's father, Eliezer, worked as a quarryman and stonemason in the company … "Shney Shoshanim " ("Two Roses") also became staples of Israeli music. Beyond songwriting, Orland was a prolific …
Gil Aldema
Gil Aldema was born in the Borokhov neighborhood (today Giv'atayim), Israel. As a child…
Zecharia Plavin
… and Sound-Star-Ton (Germany). Numerous recordings for Israeli Broadcasting Authority and - in recent years - for … programs devoted to Franz Liszt, Maurice Ravel and Jean Sibelius). Numerous chamber music collaborations in Israel, … since 1990, supplemented by lecturing services in other Israeli colleges. Many master-classes in USA and Europe - West …
Joseph Achron
… that time: “In elegance of playing, Achron matches Jan Kubelik, but he exceeds him in beauty of tone.” After returning … the Lithuanian pronunciation accustomed to him) that he believed to be the most authentic element of Jewish musical …
Yedidyah Admon
… Drivers Song). Admon was a pioneer in the field of Israeli song and served as an inspiration for the generation of … Admon served as the chair and general secretary of the Israeli Society of Composers and Authors (ACUM). His book of … instrumental works and music for children. … Israeli composer and singer … Israeli Composer … Israeli song … …
Moshe Koussevitsky
… moved to Vilna as an adolescent to study voice with Hazzan Elijah Salutkowski and enrolled at the Ramailes Yeshiva to …
Marc Lavry
… the broadcasts. Lavry was also a prolific composer of Israeli art music, with a large corpus of oratorios, chamber and … typified the emerging Mediterranean style of early Israeli folk and art musicians, was his symphonic poem Emek … in Israel and made use of liturgical melodies, Israeli folk songs and Chasidic dance and musical idioms. Lavry …
Israel Lovy
… published in 1862 in the posthumous collection, Chants religieux pour les prieres hebraique . … Cantor & composer … …
Nahum Nardi
… Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev, Ukraine. He was named after … with include Brakha Tzefira, Shoshana Damari , Esther Gamli'elit, Hanna Aharoni, Ahuva Tsadok, and Miryam Ya'akovi. In … As a composer, Nardi composed 1,111 songs, as mentioned by Eliyahu Cohen in a Radio interview with the composer. Three …
Mordekhai Seter
… has been considered since its premiere in 1961 as an Israeli masterpiece. Midnight Vigil , performed in celebratory occasions, was chosen to conclude the first Israeli Music Celebration (September 1998; an annual festival … by the 1940's. Unlike the other Founding Fathers of Israeli art music, he spent six years of his adolescence in …