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Avraham Soltes
… life: Judica; the struggle in Palestine to forge an Israel; Music, in all shapes and forms. Even as a rabbinical student … and educational activities that interpreted Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the National … The Music of Israel , on WQXR. In this increasingly popular program, week after week, he interwove the threads …
Efraim Yaakov
… Ashkelon and Ariel colleges. Efraim Yaakov is known as a popular teacher, whose courses our sought after by students. … and especially recruited people on the subject of the music of the Jews of southern Yemen ... '. Sources (in …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … a mother, he became acquainted with a vast array of popular and traditional Yiddish songs, as well as, later on, … developed parallel in Israel, one academic and one popularizing. They were both engaged in the national …
Sigmund Schlesinger
… and choirmasters who attempted to create and adapt music to suit the new ritual and format of American Reform … in Uhlen, Württemberg (later Germany), and received his musical education at a Munich conservatory. He came to the … Schlesinger collaborated with his brother, Jacob, on a popular series of pieces for the piano which was titled …
David Nowakowsky
… concerts comprised of his own liturgical and paraliturgical music, with instrumental accompaniment. As a result of this … his work at the Brody Synagogue, Nowakowsky also taught music at several local music schools, later becoming a … His musical arrangment of the poem was later replaced by a popular folk tune, which is the melody for the National …
Kurt Weill
… he emigrated to the USA. In the USA he was influenced by popular music and jazz, he met several of the outstanding figures of … stage and began to write musicals that enjoyed tremendous popularity. Weill held the ideal of writing music that …
Aaron Copland
… theory and composition with Rubin Goldmark, continuing his musical education with Goldmark, Victor Wittgenstein and … studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Fontainebleau School of Music in Paris. During his time in Paris, Copland traveled … Man and A Lincoln Portrait . These pieces gained wide popularity, strengthening his identity as a composer of …
Abraham Goldfaden
… dialogue to accompany his songs, as well as other popular Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater … melodies, Jewish folksongs, Eastern European folk and popular music, and Italian and French opera arias. Many of …
Ya'akov Orland
… Homeland and Mother, " in 1930. This song was later set to music by David Zehavi, a member of Kibbutz Naan and the … (Mitya) Zeira , who would later set many of his poems to music. One of Orland's most notable songs from this period, " Hatender Nose a" ("The Pickup Truck"), was popularized by singer Shoshana Damari . His songs "Ets …
Yedidyah Admon
… education at the Teacher's Seminary in Jerusalem under musicologist Abraham Zvi Idelsohn . From 1923 to 1927 Admon studied Music Theory and Composition in the United States. Upon his … in 1927 he published his first songs, among them the popular ' Gamal Gamali' (Camel Drivers Song). Admon was a …