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Efraim Yaakov
… this respect, Efraim was one of a kind. He recognized the power of an oral tradition, and two books he wrote — Yemen, … 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 traditions. He was also a public figure, being a … in the concert by Schlesinger “lack the sweetness and the power of expression of the Hassidic niggunim,” he went on to …
Kurt Weill
… such works as TheThree-Penny Opera . With Hitler's rise to power, his works were classified as degenerate. In 1933, … to the USA. In the USA he was influenced by popular music and jazz, he met several of the outstanding figures of the Broadway stage and began to write musicals that enjoyed tremendous popularity. Weill held the …
Joseph Shlisky
… a means of support. Shlisky never heard a note of Western music until his rise, but joined the Toronto Waves … and left it after a short time. He never thought about a musical career until, one day, he was singing at his sewing … arrived from the Old World. At the height of his fame and powers as a cantor, after Pesach 1934, Shlisky’s singing …
Mordekhai Zeira
… born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a musical family, his musical education consisted mostly of a handful of piano … to Pin h has Rotenberg, the founder of the Naharayim power station. Zeira collaborated with several poets, with …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a degree of fame and … importance of Cantor Salomon in the writings of cantors and musicologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. …
Ben-Zion Orgad
… Orgad has been most known as a principal figure on the music education scene for over three decades. He served as the national Superintendent of Music Education between 1975 and 1988. He studied with … (Psalms, 1966-8). In Mizmorim Orgad sets some of the most powerful Psalms texts to music that derives motives and …
Herman Svet
… Yehudith Wahl, from Berlin. In 1917 he began writing about music for various Russian-language periodicals in Kiev and … Soviet Russia. Svet lived in Berlin until Hitler came to power (1933). His articles were published in Jewish … He has recorded over 150 performances on history and music on The Voice of Jerusalem radio station. From 1947 he …
Ruth HaCohen (Pinczower)
… HaCohen (Pinczower) is the Artur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she … Society of Fellows. HaCohen investigates the modes by which music participates in shaping the emotional, religious, … creativity and originality in the Humanities); Composing Power, Singing Freedom: The Interplay of Music and …
Francesco Spagnolo
… and Theories of Quotation between W. Allen and S. Sontag . Music BA from the Conservatorio di Musica 'Giuseppe Verdi,' Milan (1987), with the Honor's … and A. Schoenberg . Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Musicology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Dissertation …