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Nitzan Hen Razael
… Nitzan-Chen Razael grew up in Jerusalem in a musical family. His grandfather was a cellist. He studied in the high school close to the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem and then in the high school … In the IDF, Razael served as an outstanding musician in the Education Corps Orchestra. After his military services, he …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of ethnomusicologist Avigdor Herzog (1922-2022), one of the founders … who handed him his first violin. He received his secondary education in the nearby city of Nové Zámky (Hungarian: …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… version he heard from a colleague of his in the Israeli educational system. He indeed agrees that the tune he sings … remarks refer to the two main sharqi versions documented musically, the ones from the ancient cities of Aleppo … their brethren from the lands of Islam in Palestine had musical ramifications that are still to be studied. The …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Judith R. Cohen and Risto Pekka Pennanen In 2008 the Jewish Music Research Centre released a 4-CD package entitled An … public interest in the role commercial recordings had on musical traditions from the early twentieth century, that … Bulgarian Jews in the Past,” Annual of Social, Cultural and Educational Association of the Jews in Bulgaria 20, pp. …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… -- i.e. the Romanian ghetto, did not have childhood or education; did not read and did not study [Torah], did not … his own Gesamtkunstwerk, ‘Yiftah’, as ‘hizzayon negini’ (musical play). Modern Hebrew writers embraced the biblical … plays, plural of ‘hizzayon’] of Israel’s history, with musical accompaniment (i.e., ‘hizzayon negini’), ‘that will …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… throughout Israel, in formal institutions such as the music teachers’ seminary of the Levinsky College of Education in Tel Aviv and throughout most of the first two … programs about the pioneers of the modern Hebrew song and music education in Israel , with the participation of the …
Karel Berman
… After extensive musical education, Karel Berman started his career as a bass singer … movements ('Terezin', 'Horror', and 'Alone'); a work which musicologist Bret Web described as "a rare in situ tone …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … well as Jewish Folk-Songs. At home I received an orthodox education and appreciation for everything Jewish. I visited … Rabinovitz and he took upon himself to teach me the music theory and voice training. Yiska’s memoire: [3a] He …
Abraham Beniso
… synagogues. He studied singing at the London College of Music and later accepted to the Guildhall School of music where he studied under the famous baritone Reinhold … Hazzan Beniso also recorded extensively for research and educational purposes only, generously sharing his knowledge …
Sarah Harat
… to her grandparents' home where she received a scholarly education, an unusual feature for young Yemenite Jewish … henna and wedding events, [ 1 ] and in those occasions her musical skills surfaced already at a young age when she … Aviva, Ehud and Eldad. A member of her family is the musician Yigal Hared (1942-2021), a distinguished songwriter …