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Gershom Sizomu
Gershom Sizomu is an Ugandan rabbi serving the Abayudaya, a Baganda community in…
Simon Shaheen
… Simon Shaeen is a Palestinian- American oud and violin player and composer. Full biography at Wikipedia. … Ud player … Composers … 0 … Composer … Violinist … oud player … Palestinian … USA … Simon Shaheen …
Albert Elias
… Elias was a virtuoso nay player, composer and instrument maker. In Baghdad Elias … studied law as well as the nay with a Syrian teacher. He played with some of the greatest stars of Iraqi music, … the orchestra was disbanded in 1992, Elias continued to play in private parties. Elias was the last living musicians …
Hugo Adler
… followed the Brechtian concept of Lehrstueck (learning-play) . Additionally, he composed a Biblical oratorio, …
Yizhak Edel
… still a child, Edel received a violin. He taught himself to play, practicing by playing songs he sang at his grandfather's gatherings. The … and took him to the house of writer Y.L. Peretz. There Edel played for Peretz and for a famous violinist from Warsaw who …
Ya'akov Orland
… , Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol , and Wilde's play Shlomit . In 1946, he released his third poetry book, … a Dove. In 1951, Orland moved to Haifa and began writing plays. His work Hai'r Hazot ("This City") was staged in 1953 at the Ohel Theater, and his play Halishke Hashchora ("The Black Bureau") won the Pinsker …
Gil Aldema
… neighborhood (today Giv'atayim), Israel. As a child, he played piano and violin and studied harmony under composer …
Zecharia Plavin
… (piano class of Professor Marietta Azizbekova). Played youthful solos under Maestro Saulius Sondeckis and …
Joseph Achron
… the Golem Suite (1932) and his incidental music to plays by Shalom Aleichem, Sholem Asch, and Abraham … in Berlin and gave concerts in different German cities. His playing was praised by Joseph Joachim, one of the … European violinists of that time: “In elegance of playing, Achron matches Jan Kubelik, but he exceeds him in …
Arno Nadel
… in Philadelphia. Nadel was also an accomplished poet and playwright. His first book of verse, Aus vorletzten und … works dealt with Jewish and Biblical themes, including the play, Adam (1917), and poetry collections: Rot und … … 0 … Poet … Musicologist … Playwright … Researcher … Collector … Cantor … WWII … …