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Esther Sheinberg
… Esti Sheinberg is an independent scholar. Her fields of research include Music signification, Irony and ambiguity in music, Humor in Music, the Music of Dmitrii Shostakovich, …
Yizhak Edel
… received a Jewish education, but he was also exposed to music while participating in singing gatherings hosted by … His grandfather did not approve of Edel's new path as a musician, but he ultimately gave in. Upon his grandfather’s … where, as Edel relates, he could conduct his educational researches. Other jobs Edel held in Israel included: music …
Zecharia Plavin
… From 1977 in Israel, graduated from Tel Aviv University and Music Academy (piano class of Professor Viktor Derevianko), … Authority and - in recent years - for Lithuanian Music Archive. Many thematic duo performances with violinist … work. Expanded academic activity from 2000, with cultural research for Sapir Cultural Research Forum (Sderot) since …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … violin lessons with his father. Achron continued his formal musical education at St. Petersburg Conservatory where he … through a grant from the Leonid Nevzin Center for the Research of Russian and European Jewry. Joseph (Yussl) …
Arno Nadel
… Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in Koenigsberg under cantor Eduard … became increasingly interested in the collection of Jewish music, and in 1923 was commissioned by the Jewish community … entitled, Hallelujah, for use by cantors and Jewish music researchers. In 1943, Nadel was deported to Auschwitz, where …
Eitan Avitzur
… Born in Jerusalem, 1941. Avitzur started his musical career as a conductor of high school ensembles and … his professional education at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem and at the Mozarteum of Salzburg where he … of Bar-Ilan University, Head of the Israeli Folk Music Research Center … Eitan Avitzur …
Naomi Shemer
… cultural consciousness through her beautiful melodies. Her musical skill was evident in her childhood, and her career … After her army service, she became well known through the musical “ Five-Five, ” essentially an arrangement of her … in the Village .” From the 1950s to the 1990s, Shemer wrote music that was performed throughout Israel. In 1967, she …
Joseph Shlisky
… a means of support. Shlisky never heard a note of Western music until his rise, but joined the Toronto Waves … and left it after a short time. He never thought about a musical career until, one day, he was singing at his sewing … inspection tour in about 1914. Lady Eaton, herself a musical enthusiast and vocal performer, was distinctly …
Joel Rubin
… Joel Rubin is an American clarinetist, Klezmer musician, Ethnomusicologist, and scholar of Jewish music. Since becoming … in the Klezmer revival in the late 1970s, he has been researching, teaching, and performing Klezmer music and …
Julius Chajes
… appointed head of the piano department at the Beit L'viyim Music Academy of Tel Aviv. In 1934, a farewell recital in … his stay in (then) Palestine, Chajes conducted extensive research on ancient Hebrew music. In the wake of this research and due to the local …