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Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… In addition to writing many celebrated compositions and arrangements of cantorial music, Kalib served as Professor … to be attempted in modern scholarship, calling out to a new generation of cantors scholars to dive deep into their contents and interpret them anew. As the books also largely comprise notations of Kalib’s …
David Abikzer
… position as cantor of the Sephardic Temple of Cedarhurst , New York. As a result, Hazzan Abikzer relocated with his … and Al-Andalus (also embedded below). While living in New York, Abikzer remained well-known in Israel, and has sung before Menachem Begin and Golda Meir, who he knew personally. At age 68, he retired from his position as …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… Jewish worker. Messiah and Jewry are dead, he claims, the new messiah is the Jewish worker who will be freed by the … Jewish political life.” (4) There are two main musical arrangements to the song. The first is a monophonic melody … Vol. 9: the folk song of the East European Jews . Newark: Ktav Publishing House. Roskies, David. 2002. …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Folklore 1948-1967 – Holidays' Songs – Purim." Recorded in New York City, 1956, from Mary Michaels. Original 7 1/2'' … an assiduous collaborator of Kisselgof's, had to write a new text (based as we pointed out on traditional formulae) … American Yiddish Purim repertoire, regardless of the formal arrangements published in songsters. In Israel this Purim …
Dos Fartribene Taybele (The Exiled Dove)
… by Estella Schreiner was originally recorded by Columbia in New York, ca. April 1920. Dos Fartribene Taybele is from … work as a farmer. Goldfaden had some difficulty staging his new drama, until Boris Thomashevsky agreed to produce it at … Father of the Yiddish Theater, 1990, pp. 158. … Goldfaden … New York … Yiddish … Yiddish songs … Yiddish Theater … …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… to these Jewish Portuguese scores from Amsterdam, which he knew via the copies in Birnbaum’s collection at the Hebrew … studying in Paris, Israel Adler (1925-2009), ignited a renewed interest in written music sources of historical … Library of Israel (Ms. 8o Mus. 2). On July 21, 2002, these arrangements were performed in the opening concert of the …
Naomi Shemer
… was awarded the Israel Prize, and she continued to write new music until her death in 2004. Full biography at The …
A'ufah Eshkona
Acrostic "Ani Itzhak hazak". The piyut is a dialogue between lovers in the form of…
Léibele Schwartz
… was the United States. Clara traveled before him to New York in 1961 because Jeffrey, their first child, was … Congregation Shaare Zedek , the third oldest synagogue in New York City and the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills , … the melodies created by Léibele orally and made the arrangements. Among his original works are High Holyday …