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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
… Conservatory of Music, where he taught noted composers Goldsmith, Mancini, Previn, Riddle and John Williams. … …
Mikhail Gnesin
… The Maccabees (1921); the symphonic works, Songs from the Old Country (1919) and The Jewish Orchestra at the Ball of …
Mordekhai Hershman
… Empire, today Chernihiv in Ukraine and died in New York City on January 30, 1941. Several sources have misprinted … the service for which tickets of different prices were sold, showing the porous line separating secular from the … music by Yosef (Joseph) Rumshinsky , featured Samuel Goldenburg and Dora Weissman. This Polish screening of “Shir …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak Mizrahi, who was … few years of Asher’s life, his family moved outside the old city walls and built a new home across from the …
Dudu Barak
… radio. Through the choir, Barak got to know the poets Leah Goldberg, Miram Yalan Shtekelis, Anda Amir and Bilha Yafe who … idiomatic phrases when I wrote the songs. But when I saw a soldier in the street asking his friend, 'Ma Shlumcha?' (How … Could Barak have written the same song about a different city, Tel Aviv for example? He answers in an interview with …
Edward Stark
… boy, Edward sang in his father’s choir along with his three older brothers. In 1871, Edward and his family immigrated to … community concentrated in the 'East 50’s' of New York City , and Josef was hired to officiate at Congregation Adat …
Joseph Shlisky
… not far from the synagogue, in the heart of The Ward, the city’s bustling, growing Jewish district. As a soloist in … recitals and fundraisers for the war effort attended by the city’s Anglo-Saxon Protestant gentry as well as its … willing to directly assist hazzanim newly arrived from the Old World. At the height of his fame and powers as a cantor, …
Boris Thomashefsky
… to the United States in 1881, and settled in New York City. Shortly after arriving to New York, Thomashefsky … The troupe, with Thomashefsky’s help, produced Abraham Goldfadn’s play “The Witch” at Turn Hall on August 18, 1882. … America. He sponsored Ossip Dymov, Jacob Ben-Ami , Samuel Goldenberg, Michael Michaelesco, Aaron Lebedeff , and many …
Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul
… also developed a close friendship with Rabbi Lieben of the Old-New Synagogue in Prague . While in Prague , Schul …
Yosef Hadar
… Choir of Ramat-Gan. In the sixties he established the city's men's choir. In 1974, Hadar moved to Arad where he … teaching in several schools. In 1990, Hadar won the ACUM 'Golden Feather' award for Lifetime Achievment. In 1998, he …