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Alhambra
… to collect, transcribe, record, and perform Judeo-Spanish music. The ensemble's repertoire is comprised of … based on songs they collected from informants at the Sephardic Home for the Aged in Brooklyn, as well printed … in the "First International Festival of Jewish Art Music" in Vilnius, the Quincentennial Celebration in …
Jo Amar
… In the early 1960’s, Jo Amar was a Mizrahi music star. He combined ‘paytanut’ and poetry to create … and others. Amar was a leader of the emerging Mizrahi music scene in Israel, however during the early years of his … He died in 2009. … Israeli vocalist specializing in Sephardic liturgical and paraliturgical music … Jo Amar …
Paul Ben-Haim
… The most prolific of the founding fathers of Israeli music (excluding, perhaps , Marc Lavry ), he wrote over 250 … and incorporated the arrangements that he made for her Sephardi and Yemenite tunes into his symphonies and other … his colleague Peter Gradenwitz (his publisher, well-known musicologist). Among Ben-Haim’s other notable works are his …
Federico Consolo
… (1892), a work containing traditional tunes of the Sephardic Jews of Italy. Source: Encyclopedia Judaica . … … - Judezmo ,Judeo-Spanish … Cantorate … Hazzan … Violin music … Liturgical music … Italian music … Ladino … Sephardi music … Liturgy … Federico Consolo …
Haim Effendi
… In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … and to Israel. Haim was a quintessential Sephardi singer of his period, a critical era of deep social … Haim was educated in one of the most important centers of Sephardi religious music, Edirne, where a local Jewish choir …
Menahem Avidom
… 1955 to the end of his life, some of the most important music institutions in Israel, such as the Israel Composers’ … pieces, including ten symphonies, two cantatas and chamber music. One of several prominent composers who wrote … and based many of their compositions on Yemenite and Sephardi tunes she sang, he was one of the leaders of the …
Jacob Bauer
… teacher. Born in Szenice, Hungary. Cantor and adaptor of music in the Turkish-Israelite temple in Vienna . Founder … Lowit, published a collection of arrangements of Turco-Sephardic melodies (Schir-Hakawod [1889]). Jacob Bauer's …
Ram Da-Oz
… and lost his eyesight. Afterward he continued to study music, including piano, oboe, theory and composition, and graduated from the Israel Academy of Music, Tel Aviv (1953). Da-Oz has written Israeli Art Music, … free tonality in addition to traditional styles, using some Sephardic melodies for his works. He has also written …
Rahamim Amar
… of the Old City of Jerusalem. His father’s family was of Sephardic origin from Saloniki. His mother's family, named … lived in the city for twenty generations. He started his music career as a trumpet player in the British Police Band, … Ottoman Hebrew tradition in which he was brought up in the Sephardic synagogues of Jerusalem’s Old City with current …
Betty Olivero
… Italy. She is a full professor of composition at the Music Department in Bar-Ilan University. Betty Olivero is a … was awarded the Koussevitzky Award by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and the Library of Congress, Washington … yet combines elements as diverse as Judeo-Spanish (sephardic) music, Arab tunes and medieval music integrated …