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Ramon Tasat
Ramón Tasat was born in Buenos Aires. He learned Ladino at his grandmother’s knee. He…
Esther R. Warkov
… University Ph.D. program in Musicology in 1979. Intent on playing Arabic music, she studied ‘ud with leading …
Albert Weisser
… S. Weisser . He studied piano with Isaiah Seligman and played with various dance and jazz bands prior to …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… Yenkiz (conducted by Saul Dickstein) and later played a small role in the melodrama Der Eibiker … for Victor and Asch. From 1938 to 1953 Yardeni (with playwright Viktor Peker) hosted Di Geshichte Fun Mine … site. … cantor, composer, music critic, playwright, songwriter, and lecturer. … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… efforts in the same field still await assessment. Geshuri playing the harmonium, c. 1950s Aside from his journalistic …
Fritz Rikko
… Musicum of New York in 1951. The early music ensemble played many engagements and made recordings, but perhaps is … conductor. Rikko had been a violist with the Busch Chamber Players and taught at the Juilliard School of Music, …
Uri Aharon
… researcher, author of two books and many articles in music, plays classical, Jewish and folk music on the flute. For …
Kurt Weill
… satirical and surrealistic operas, he became famous with playwright Bertold Brecht through such works as …
Paul Dessau
… ). Known mostly for his collaboration with the famous playwright, Bertolt Brecht, for whose plays he wrote incidental music. Used some Jewish themes in …
Abraham Goldfaden
… after only a short while to Europe where he produced his plays in London, Paris, and Lemberg theaters. The most successful of Goldfaden’s early plays were satirical pieces with stereotypical characters … education, he arranged the majority of the music for his plays. Goldfaden’s corpus was very eclectic; he drew from a …