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“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Motzei Shabbat. It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual … from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/ Literary … of the piyyut was recorded live by a children’s choir with orchestral accompaniment conducted by the composer. It seems …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … Israeli Broadcast Authority (IBA)—supported an Arabic music orchestra on its ‘Voice of Israel in Arabic’ channel, which … and the Iraqi musicians who joined the state-supported Oriental orchestra were those already familiar with the …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … to perform with what he defined as “the Algerian National Orchestra,” in France in 1981. He preferred the Algerian … point to a dialogue with the mainstream of Israeli Oriental pop, as shown by love songs such as the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … of all-Jewish programs with the “Jewish minorities’ orchestra.” The events were advertised in both Yiddish and … Meir Shimon Geshuri argued that “Our music must remain Oriental in character, since we were an Oriental people in …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … Broadcast Authority (IBA) —supported an Arabic music orchestra on its ‘Voice of Israel in Arabic’ channel, which … and the Iraqi musicians who joined the state-supported Oriental orchestra were those already familiar with the …
Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
… occupations out of necessity. Wrote a manuscript on Iraqi music theory but was discouraged by lack of recognition for … vocalist … Iraqi Broadcasting Ensemble in Baghdad … Oriental Music Orchestra … oud player … nay player … Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari …
Abraham Salman
… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … livelihood. Salman became a member of the Baghdad Radio Orchestra and a favored accompanist of some of Iraqi's … was a prominent member of the Israel Broadcast Authority’s Oriental music orchestra until his retirement in the late …
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
… of the maqam , wrote Na‘im Twayna in his series on Iraqi musicians in Al-Anba’ newspaper (June 30, 1978). It is … Music Broadcast Ensemble … Israel Broadcast Authority’s Oriental music orchestra … Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen) …
Armand Sabah
… Israel with his family at age ten. His father came from a musical family related to the renowned Moroccan singer and … he played electric guitar in the university's student orchestra, performing mainly pop music, including songs by … instruction in classical guitar, flamenco, classical and oriental piano, oud, and Kamanga violin. He also worked with …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … and also the Hasidim. To get a full concept of the Oriental music, I collected the music of the Arabs, the … Army, and was for a while the conductor of the military orchestra at the front. British Palestine, 1918-1920 …