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Avraham Slep
… It is not known where he was born or where he received his musical education. Slep began his career as a singing … a professor of solfege at the Vilna Institute of Jewish Music, among whose teachers was Eliyahu Malkin, the teacher … Source: 'Avram Sliep ' at Yiddish Music Website (in Russian). … Conductor & music educator … 0 … Vilna … Ghetto …
Richard Newman
… and received a master's degree from the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1937 he emigrated with his family to the United … Army and Fought in Europe. After the war, he directed the musical education program for the allied forces in the … 'Richard Jacob Neumann ' at Yiddish Music Website (in Russian). See also the list of Richard Jacob Neumann's …
Joseph Schillinger
… Joseph Schillinger was a composer, music theorist, and composition teacher who originated the Schillinger System of Musical Composition. He was born in Kharkiv, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) and died in New York …
Alexander Olshanetsky
… Russia and Siberia, and later was the choral director for a Russian operetta company. He stayed in Kharbin (today in … Avenue' milieu. … Composer & conductor of Yiddish theater music … Composer … Conductor … Yiddish … Theater … Music … Opera … Alexander Olshanetsky …
Joel Walbe
… his business and his way of life. He rejected young Joel's musical interests, and considered the study of music and literature to be a foreign influence. Though … together with the harsh events in Ukraine (WWI, Pogroms, Russian revolution) compelled Walbe to immigrate to …
Zalmen Mlotek
… Zalmen Mlotek is an American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer, and the Artistic … recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music and a leading figure in the Jewish theatre and concert … classics, instituted bi-lingual simultaneous English and Russian supertitles at all performances and brought leading …
Harry Kandel
… and bandleader, one of the pioneers of modern klezmer music. He ran an orchestra which consisted of a variety of … in Swing'. Kandel studied at the Odessa Conservatory of Music and served in army band of the Russian czar, moving to New York in 1905. He first worked on …
Mark Isakovich Rabinovich
… in 1870 in the town of Zdvyzhensk (Kiev province of the Russian Empire; now Brusilov, Ukraine). He studied music under the guidance of his grandfather, the klezmer … he was the head of the State Ensemble of Jewish Folk Music of the Ukrainian SSR. The ensemble performed on the …
Eliakum Zunser
… of poverty and intolerable and vicious harassment by the Russians, he wandered from city to city and at one time was … He was the first badhan to have a rudimentary knowledge of music. By his personal qualities he raised the profession of … 1 2009. Nulman, Macy. Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music , New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1975. ' …
Jacob Bachman
… Ukraine). As a child he studied in a Yeshiva. He began his music studies in Moshe Pasternak’s choir at the local … with Rubinstein, who was considered the 'westerner of Russian music,'* Bachmann choose a career in cantorate. He … Pinchas. “Misefer Hayyai.” Reshumot 5 (1927): 145-160. … Russian cantor-composer … Jacob Bachman …