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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 …
Abraham Goldfaden
… contact with the Broder Singers, who were active in Yiddish folk song performance. It was there that Goldfaden began to … his songs, as well as other popular Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater … wide range of sources including synagogue melodies, Jewish folksongs, Eastern European folk and popular music, and …
Theodor Bikel
… as well as in television shows and in movies. As a folk singer he sang songs that spanned over 20 languages, … Singer … Actor … Broadway … Theater … Television … Movies … Folk … Songs … Folksongs … Theodor Bikel …
Michael Lukin
… USSR, completed his BA degree at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and obtained the MA in Jewish Music at the … Jerusalem. In his PhD dissertation, entitled “The Yiddish Folk Song: Poetics and Music” and completed at the Hebrew … a frame of reference for the characterization of Yiddish folk singing – its main genres, performance contexts, …
Yizhak Edel
… received a Jewish education, but he was also exposed to music while participating in singing gatherings hosted by … became acquainted with the works of the Society for Jewish folk Music which were based mainly in St. Petersburg . These … for Jewish Music, after the model of the Society for Jewish Folk Music. The company held concerts of Jewish music and …
Gil Aldema
… Conducting and Composition at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, and continued his studies at Mannes College of Music, … and in 2004 he received the Israel Prize for Hebrew folksong. Aldema has composed and written choir arrangements of numerous Hebrew folksongs, which have been widely used by many choirs and …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … and Moses Michail Milner, he founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Achron's association with these musicians and … 1911, Achron joined the St. Petersburg “Society of Jewish Folk Music” founded three years earlier by Joel Engel, …
Samuel Alman
… Alman was born in Sobolevka, Podolia in 1877. He began his musical education at the conservatory in Odessa and was a … in Kishinev , Alman moved to London where he continued his musical studies at the Royal College of Music. There he … wrote and published several arrangements of popular Yiddish folk songs. … Composer of Synagogue and Secular Music … 0 … …
Alexander A. Krein
… in 1883. He and his five other siblings were taught Jewish folk and instrumental music by his father who was a well known Klezmer musician … activities of the Moscow branch of the Society for Jewish Folk Music. Krien, like the other members of the Folk Music …
Marc Lavry
… Marc Lavry was born in Riga , Latvia and received his formal musical education at the Riga and Leipzig conservatories … 1935. Between 1941 and 1947 Lavry conducted the Palestine Folk Opera and Palestine Orchestra. In 1950 Lavry was … typified the emerging Mediterranean style of early Israeli folk and art musicians, was his symphonic poem Emek (1937). …