(1576 results found)
Aaron Copland
… was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent. In 1917 he began studying theory and composition with Rubin Goldmark, continuing his musical education with Goldmark, Victor Wittgenstein and … studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Fontainebleau School of Music in Paris. During his time in Paris, Copland traveled …
Paul Dessau
… Bertolt Brecht, for whose plays he wrote incidental music. Used some Jewish themes in his music (specifically in his oratorio, Haggadah Shel Pesach). …
Erich Walter Sternberg
… His works were later often related as “non-local,” or “more Jewish than Israeli” because of that Zeitgeist favoring … … Composers … 11807 … Composer … Israeli … Orchestra … Jewish … Biblical … Themes … Erich Walter Sternberg … רונית …
Abraham Goldfaden
… father took advantage of a new law mandating that Jewish students attending public school would be except from … he began publishing a satirical journal, Yisrolec for the Jewish community living there. The journal was in … his songs, as well as other popular Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater …
Theodor Bikel
Born in Vienna, Austria and immigrated to Palestine with his parents at age 13. Studied…
Albert Elias
… teacher. He played with some of the greatest stars of Iraqi music, including Nazem al-Ghazali, Salima Morad, Muhammed … Iraqi maqam and the more widespread Egyptian style of tarab music, which he greatly enjoyed. He also studied law for two … maqam Ajam , 1995. Haki Ovadiya and Elias . More sources: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited …
Mark Kopytman
Mark Kopytman (b. Kamenets-Podolsk, Ukraine, 1929, immigrated in 1972, lived in…
Bence Szabolcsi
… Bence Szabolcsi was a Hungarian music historian. He was born in Budapest, the younger son of Miksa Szabolcsi (1856-1915), editor of the Hungarian Jewish weekly Egyenlőség . He studied musicology at Leipzig … 'Proclamation Style' in Hebrew music ' in Studies of the Jewish Music Research Centre, ed. Israel Adler. Jerusalem: …
Rita Flomenboim
… Rita Flomenboim, musicologist and music theoretician. Born in Chernovitz, … graduate in Bar Ilan University. Researching the field of Jewish Art Music since 1983. Participated in various conferences and congresses on Jewish Music. … Musicologist and music theoretician … Rita …
Abigail Wood
… Lecturer in ethnomusicology in the Department of Music, University of Haifa. … 2002-6, and moved to take up the Joe Loss Lectureship in Jewish Music at SOAS, University of London in 2006. In 2013 … include contemporary klezmer and Yiddish song, music in Jewish-Christian relations and music in immigrant …