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Abraham Wolf Binder
… a family of cantors and into a world enriched by synagogue music and Jewish folklore. He was a member of his father’s synagogue … (prayer melodies). He continued his involvement in Jewish choral music, forming the Hadassah Choral Union in …
Eduard Birnbaum
… in Bydgoszcz. His teachers at Bydgoszcz identified his musical talent early on and sent him to Vilna to study … and para-liturgical musical practices of the major European Jewish communities. To supplement the material that he … collection … Hebrew Union College … Cantor … Collector … Jewish Liturgy … Eduard Birnbaum …
Abraham Baer
… . Baal Tfilla includes original compositions, as well as music borrowed from Salomon Sulzer , Louis Lewandowski … and Samuel Naumbourg , covering the liturgy of the entire Jewish calendar year. This major anthology by Baer, cantor … until his death), a minor corner of the German-speaking Jewish world by all accounts, had everlasting effects. Four …
Yehezkiel Braun
… in Israel , is most known for his often-performed choral music. A 2001 Israel Prize laureate, he is probably the most … that there is common basis, a certain pentatonic scale, for Jewish cantilation – Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, and Yemenite alike, … here for an additional biography on the Milken Archive of Jewish Music website. … 44134 … Israeli composer … Yehezkel …
Mordechai Breuer
… from Germany. In 1942, Breuer studied in a course for music teachers at the Jerusalem Conservatory and received a … and holidays. In Israel, Breuer taught the history of Jewish music at the conservatory. In the 1950s, he taught at … was made systematically according to topics in the Jewish calendar as follows: introduction and personal …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… Aliyah. He studied at the Tel Aviv Teachers' College of Music and the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He studied … Western compositional techniques. His works fuse Oriental Jewish melisma and modern techniques. In 1994 he … nine years from its establishment. For the first time the Jewish version of the Andalusian music was transcribed by …
Gershon Ephros
… grandfather, Cantor Moses Fromberg. He received his first musical training while being part of his grandfather's … in 1957. Apart fom his cantorial career, Ephros taught Jewish music in Hebrew schools in New York and at the Hebrew Union College. He officiated as president of the Jewish Music Forum and was a member of the executive board …
Walter Zev Feldman
… Columbia University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as the literature of the Ottoman and Central … music and poetry of epic in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, and Jewish klezmer music in the United States. His book , Music …
Gila Flam
… Ph. D., University of California Los Angeles, Department of Music, 1988. Her thesis: Singing for Survival: Songs of the … the University of Illinois Press in 1992. Director of the Music Department of the Jewish National and University Library. Research interests: …
Judit Frigyesi
… Judit Niran Frigyesi is a musicologist, ethnomusicologist, teacher and poet. She … of full liturgies of services with interviews) of the Jewish tradition recorded in East Europe and the largest … prose and photographs, the experience of the sound of Jewish prayer. … Musicologist … Judit Frigyesi …