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Viktor Ullmann
… teacher Edward Steuermann. That same year, he joined Arnold Schoenberg ’s composition seminar, through which he … compositional productivity in Terezín. Due to the scarcity of scores in the camp, Ullmann’s corpus represented a …
Alois Kaiser
… at the Neusynagoge at Prague. Kaiser arrived in New York city in June, 1866, and in the following month was appointed … Union Hymnal, published in 1897. With Samuel Welsh, Moritz Goldstein, and J. L. Rice, Kaiser published the "Zimrat Yah" …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… towards Zionism. As he mentions in his memoir, his household’s bookshelf was rich in Jewish (especially Hassidic) … modern education, studied at a gymnasium and then at the city’s University and the Conservatory of Music. He … to Eastern and Western Galicia, Hungary, Bukovina and Old Rumania. Volume four included Congress Poland, which had …
Joseph Achron
… Conservatory where he studied under renowned violinist Leopold Auer, and composer Anatoly Lyadov. In 1908 together with … to plays by Shalom Aleichem, Sholem Asch, and Abraham Goldfaden. The following article on Joseph Achron by Dr. … Between 1899 and 1904, Achron studied violin with Leopold S. Auer and harmony with Anatol Konstantinovitch Liadov …
Gustav Mahler
… and to advance his career as a conductor and composer, holding posts at theaters in Prague , Leipzig , Hamburg and …
Sholom Secunda
… family. In 1896 the Secunda’s moved to Nicholayev, a port city with a population of approximately 175,000, located at … season, 'Children Come Home' by Zolatarevski and 'Golden Time.' Although critics from the New York press … Theater, Sholom returned to New York to work for Nathan Goldberg at the Grand Theater. Sholom married Yiddish theater …
Gershon Sirota
… . He attended services at all of the synagogues in the city, exposing himself to a myriad of local and original … outside were even greater; men and women, young and old who tried without success to get in to hear the concert … Sullivan, the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst and Herman Rider of the 'City-News.' Also present were Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Judge …
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 …