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Viktor Ullmann
… opera was left unstaged. On September 8, 1942, Ullmann, along with his third wife Elizabeth, were deported to … his opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis , scored for five singers and a thirteen-member orchestra. The premier was to …
Samuel Naumbourg
… musical education in Munich where he was recruited to sing in Maier Kohn ’s synagogue choir. Naumbourg’s early … the material and released 30 of the 33 original pieces, along with a selection of Rossi’s madrigals under the title … Cantiques de Salamon Rossi. … Composer, Synagogue singer, Musicologist, French Jewish reformer of synagogue …
Aaron Beer
… he gathered and ordered compositions of his contemporaries, along with his original works, into a collection of over … 1,200 pieces for use in the Synagogue. Beer was known for using a varying body of tunes in order to discourage … a tune but once a year, it will be impossible for him to sing with the cantor during the service, and therefore he …
Myer Leoni
… Myer Leoni began his musical career as an opera singer in England . In 1767 he took a position as cantor of … they didn’t conflict with his Synagogue duties. Leoni, along with collegue Giordani, established an English Opera … … Cantor … Composer … Opera … Singer … London … Great … Synagogue … Yigdal … Myer Leoni …
Sholom Secunda
… same year, Sholom was recruited by Cantor Bezalel Brown to sing for the Synagogue choir, the largest and wealthiest … (now Dnipropetrovsk) to receive cantorial training and to sing as a soloist in his choir. Yekaterinoslav was 175 miles … New York theaters and in music stores. That year Sholom, along with colleagues Alexander Olshanetsky , Joseph and …
Mordekhai Seter
… Orchestra’s Millennium Festival program (January 2000, along with Beethoven’s Ninth and Bach’s B minor Mass). The … refused to teach composition and rejected commissions. Focusing on composition alone, he gained uncommon admiration …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… musical life of Jerusalem , writing songs in Ladino, composing new piyyutim, and performing and teaching. Yaakov … his handsome looks. He was dark, with green eyes, and a pleasing voice that captured one's heart. Unlike other musicians … 1930’s, Asher Mizrahi traveled to Paris to make a recording along with fellow musicians Sheikh El-Afrit, Shafia Rushdie …
Edward Stark
… butcher. As a young boy, Edward sang in his father’s choir along with his three older brothers. In 1871, Edward and his … including the Germania Quartet Club, an amateur singing group. He composed several operettas for the group, … eines Gesang-Vereins” (“ Germania , or the Dream of a Singing Society”). Stark studied Hebrew and hazzanut with …
Joseph Shlisky
… never thought about a musical career until, one day, he was singing at his sewing machine when Lady Flora McCrea Eaton … and the Manhattan press anointed him one of the best young singers of the day. Shlisky’s star continued to rise as a … regularly on the radio, and in at least one major film—along with Rosenblatt, David Roitman, Joseph Shapiro, and …
David Beyglman
… Theaters centered in Lodz. In the winter of 1940, Begylman along with approximately 230,000 other Jewish residents were … harsh conditions of life in the Lodz Ghetto. The Yiddish singer-songwriter took the place of the badhan (wedding …