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Lazare Saminsky
… In 1908 he became a founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music , working as its first secretary. During … this office, he played a crucial role in the forming of new Jewish music to be performed in the Reform synagogues of … changing the existing repertoire, and encouraging Jewish composers to compose Jewish liturgical works. He aspired for …
Moshe Wilensky
… returned to Warsaw. In his youth, Wilensky attended the Jewish " Eskela " Gymnasium, which offered Hebrew … stage. He also composed music for films produced by the Jewish National Fund ('Hakeren Hakayemet') and for "Yomani … In 1936, Wilensky co-founded ACUM, an association for composers and directors to preserve copyright in music and …
Anthology of Jewish Music
… same. The Anthology also contains original compositions of Jewish composers, most importantly Arnold Schonberg's last … Marks … … 1955 … Ashkenazi … Chemjo Vinaver … Anthology of Jewish Music …
Joachim Stutschewsky
… and writer, a founder of the Society for the Development of Jewish Music in Vienna, and a cellist in the famous Viennese … Immediately after immigration, he encouraged Israeli composers to write music based on Jewish heritage. As for himself, he favored Ashkenazi, …
The composer was courageous, but not as much as in myth.
… In summer 1948, Sostakovic composed the song cycle (From Jewish folk poetry), his first major work in the aftermath … by more than 50,000 Soviet Jews. In November 1948, the Jewish Antifascist Committee was ordered disbanded, and by the end of the year mass arrests of Jewish intellectuals had begun. Sostakovic's choice of …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a … days a half century earlier: [1] “Why are there so many Jewish students at the St. Petersburg Conservatory? Because … Conservatory and the benign encouragement of leading composers such as Aleksandr K. Glazunov and Nikolai A. …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… collection is located at the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and can accessed … and historical information on Rothmüller and his important Jewish cultural organization, Omanut based in Zagreb, and … of Israel holds correspondence by Rothmüller with Israeli composers Alexander Uriah Boscovich and Marc Lavry showing …
Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… practically only collection of religious works by a Jewish composer of art music. They were written for various … historical, and sociocultural document as a musical one. … Composers … 9485 … Salamone Rossi … Rossi, Salamone, 1570?-ca. 1630 … Composer … Jewish composers … Art Music … Seventeenth (17th) Century … …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… we are glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online world-premiere recording of … exposure to Central European modernism embedded within a Jewish multi-ethnic scene that includes liturgical, …
Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music
… A single-volume work consisting of brief entries on names of composers and performers as well as concepts related to Jewish music and liturgy. Useful for quick reference, but in … Book Co. … … 1975 … Macy Nulman … Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music …