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Joel Rubin
… Joel Rubin is an American clarinetist, Klezmer musician, Ethnomusicologist, and scholar of Jewish music. Since becoming … genres. He has been a member of, or performed with, such groups as Brave Old World , the J oel Rubin Ensemble , and …
Emanuel Zamir
… songs, in general, for which he wrote both words and music, portray sceneries borrowed from the world of … during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. There he created groups of singers and players, and founded a small … sold on records. In this hopeless struggle against foreign music, in 1948, Zamir started broadcasting on all of the …
Rafael Schächter
… War I, Schächter moved to Brno, where he began his formal musical studies. He continued his studies at the Prague Conservatory of Music, where he received degrees in composition and … efforts inspired other musicians to organize singing groups: Karel Berman formed a girls chorus; Karel Vrba …
Yosef Hadar
… Yosef Hadar was born in Tel Aviv in 1926 to a musical family. His mother Yafa and his father Yehiel were … Emanuel Amiran-Pugatchov brought Hadar to the College for Music Educators (Midrasha Lemichanchim Lemusica), which was … he organized practice and performance venues for his groups, while all the while teaching in several schools. In …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… War I. As a youth, he was involved with outlawed Communist groups and was arrested several times, serving a lengthy … for Jewish Research website ' Shmerke Kaczerginski ' in Music during the Holocaust website. Other sources: Werb, …
Nurit Hirsh
… 'Bashana Haba'a,' and 'Lalehet Shevi Ahare'a.' She composed music for poems by Hayim Nahman Bialik, Natan Alterman, Lea … at both national and international festivals. She wrote music for cinema, television, theatre and video. Nurit Hirsh … songs came to constitute part of the repertoire of dancing groups all across Israel. In many cases the composer of …
Nahum Heiman
… has won the right to become one of the priests of Hebrew music.' It is not for nothing that Natan Yonatan calls Nahum … says that the families of Heiman, Asaf and Yedoton were the musicians of the first and second temple.' Nahum Heiman … movies and television series, and guided choirs and singing groups. Heiman was born in Riga, Latvia on May 6, 1934. His …
Betty Olivero
… Italy. She is a full professor of composition at the Music Department in Bar-Ilan University. Betty Olivero is a … was awarded the Koussevitzky Award by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and the Library of Congress, Washington … have been performed by leading orchestras and chamber groups such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… program for each event and party. 'Adaki got to know three groups of singers (each wedding had a group of three … and studied their repertoire. He had a good voice and musical hearing, as well as a good memory and perception, … Yemenite folklore. Additionally, 'Adaki worked with the musician Menashe Ravina , who transcribed some of the …
Moses Beregovski
… born in the Ukraine in 1892. He was exposed to liturgical music at an early age through his father who was a teacher at the Kiev Jewish Music School and a ba’al kore (official who reads the Torah … folk songs, which he separated into the following groups: songs about work, exploitation and poverty, strike …