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Josef Bonime
… studied composition at The City College of New York and piano performance at Julliard. After completing his degrees, he toured as a piano accompanist with famed violinists Mischa Elman and … Vitaphone talkies such as Mischa Elman (1926), and arranged music for film short subjects. In 1933, Bonime joined the …
Jerome Kern
… nine children, of which only three survived. Kern began his musical career under the tutelage of his mother, who was a piano teacher. In 1902, Kern enrolled at the Normal College … attended classes at the New York College of Music, studying piano, harmony and composition. That same year, he published …
Joel Walbe
… his business and his way of life. He rejected young Joel's musical interests, and considered the study of music and literature to be a foreign influence. Though … Bet Haleviyim Conservatory, who taught him note-reading and piano. The conservatory arranged for Birbis to study for …
Paul Ben-Haim
… The most prolific of the founding fathers of Israeli music (excluding, perhaps , Marc Lavry ), he wrote over 250 … Quintet for Clarinet and Strings (1941) and Five Pieces for piano, op. 34 (1943). His Symphony No. 2 (1945), like the … notable works are his Liturgical Cantata (1949), Sonata (piano, 1954), his arrangement of the national anthem …
Harry Kandel
… and bandleader, one of the pioneers of modern klezmer music. He ran an orchestra which consisted of a variety of … trombone, tuba, xylophone, cornet, violin, flute, viola and piano. Their hits peaked from about 1916 to 1927, and … in Swing'. Kandel studied at the Odessa Conservatory of Music and served in army band of the Russian czar, moving to …
Haim (Heinz) Alexander
… of the first generation, but indeed he acquired formative musical education in Jerusalem, notably with Irma and Stefan … – sometimes integrating them as in his Patterns (piano, 1973), commissioned for the Rubinstein Competition. … (Schott). Among his major works are Sound Figures (piano, 1965), Concerto for piano (1982), and Songs of …
Emanuel Amiran (Pougatchov)
… fundamentals of Jewish culture. In Russia, Amiran began his music studies with Joel Engel and Prof. David Shor. In 1921, … Later, Amiran moved to Tel Aviv where he taught music at various schools and seminaries. He ended this work … and cinema, music for public celebrations, and works for piano, orchestra, voice, and chamber ensembles. A collection …
Tzvi Avni
… as the chair of Israel Composers’ League and ISCM World Music Days (Israel, 1980). Studying with Ehrlich, Ben-Haim … and wrote his witty, playful and optimistic Capriccio (piano, 1955/1975) and the first Sonata (piano 1961)—where melody is one of his strengths, as in his …
Abraham Ber Birnbaum
… to a Hassidic family in Pultusk, Poland. He was exposed to music as a young child while accompanying his father on … Rabbis of Kutsk and Ger, where Abraham would hear Hassidic music. Although he was considered an Illui in Talmud, … returned to Lodz. In Lodz, he opened a retail business for pianos and for other instruments, and continued teaching and …
Alexander Uria Boscovich
… and conductor), was the leading ideologist of Israeli music, exerting considerable influence on the second … opinionated, ideas concerning national identity in Israeli music. He studied with Nadia Boulanger and Paul Dukas, and … of his modest oeuvre are his influential Semitic Suite (piano; also for orchestra, 1945), Oboe Concerto (1942), …