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Betty Olivero
… and secular, traditional and new. Olivero was awarded the Fromm Award by the Fromm Music Foundation (USA, 1986), the Prime Minister's … studying in Israel, Betty Olivero was granted scholarships from the America-Israel-Cultural-Foundation . Olivero's …
Pnina Salzman
… navigating her early career, she received lessons from many other well known Parisian and visiting pianists, … a session with Artur Schnabel (1882-1951). She graduated from the École Normale in June 1935 as a student of Cortot. … Rubinstein (1887–1982)—an act she had to keep secret from Tagliaferro, her official teacher during the …
Ronit Seter
… are available as webcasts. Seter received grants from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Dan David …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… Congress of Oriental Music, Cairo. Aharon immigrated from Iraq to Israel in 1935 and developed ‘Oriental’ styles …
Oedoen Partos
… through the synthesis of Yemenite tunes he transcribed from Bracha Zefira. Music in Israel after 1960 was significantly different, following the news from Darmstadt that reached composers only in the late 1950s, …
Ben-Zion Orgad
… texts to music that derives motives and melodic cells from cantilation juxtaposed in multi-layer textures, creating …
Noam Sheriff
… 1960s), to his personal, local interpretation of neo post-romanticism. His major works include orchestral …
Joan Franks Williams
… Brutus! (mezzo solo, 1976), Rudolph Heinemann in Bonn (trombone, 1978), Sevenths to Eight (1979), The Love of …
David Menahem
… David Menachem was born in 1980 to a family who immigrated from Iraq in the 1950s. His maternal grandfather, Rabbi Gurje … album 'Yehuda Halevi Pinat Ibn Gvirol'. He also composed from the piyyutim of Rabbi Yosef Chaim of Baghdad and Rabbi Yosef Mesas. He also composed many piyyutim from Alep. His melodies were performed by the great Sepharad …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… and public figures in Adrianpole, a city which had, from the seventeenth century until WWI, one of the most … two fields in which Isaac Eliyahu Navon excelled as well. From an early stage in life, Navon was influenced by the new … enlightenment) and Jewish nationalism. Educated Jews from eastern and central Europe who settled in Adrianpole had …