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Isadore Freed
… his course offerings to include a class devoted to Jewish modes. In 1958, Freed published the treatise, Harmonizing the Jewish Modes , in which he offers a systematic harmonic language by which to understand the Jewish modes as they have been treated by a variety of synagogue …
Frederick Piket
… compositions. He questioned strict adherence to synagogue modes, or nusach , and instead preferred a simple, direct and …
Max Helfman
… melodies. Among his best known works are his Shabbat Kodesh (1942), a Sabbath Cantata , and his Di naye hagode …
Mordekhai Zeira
… feeling of the new Israeli musical idiom, based on modes and syncopation, to which he was introduced during his …
Nahum Heiman
… of the composer Matitiyahu Shalem and the dancer Tirza Hodes. He began playing in Hodes's folk dancing classes, but instead of playing the tunes regularly, he would improvise. Hodes didn't like it, and one day, after a few instances …
Sigmund Mogulesko
… theater. In 1880 Mogulesko formed a theater troupe in Odessa, and in 1881 published a collection of verse, …
Alexander Olshanetsky
… Alexander Olshanetsky was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He played with the Odessa Opera orchestra and toured Russia and Siberia, and …
Harry Kandel
… Ziggy Elman as 'Fralich in Swing'. Kandel studied at the Odessa Conservatory of Music and served in army band of the …
Haim Effendi
… For example, in an interview with Estrella Mayo from Rhodes by Samuel G. Armistead on February 7, 1958, she says: …
Joshua (Osias) Abrass
… a child prodigy, and studied with Bezalel Schulsinger in Odessa. Joshua officiated as a cantor in Tarnopol … (1840-1842) and in Lvov (1842-1858), and as chief cantor in Odessa (1858-1884). He published one work, Simrat Joh (ca. … Minkowski relates the story of the “cantors’ battle” in Odessa between Joshua Abrass and Jacob Bachman , during …