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Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
… hazzan of Novata Ushitsa, who taught him solfege and sight singing. He participated in many local synagogue choirs, …
Nissan Blumenthal
… the first Chor-Schul in Odessa where he developed choral singing for four voices. Influenced by his study of German …
Mordekhai Hershman
… managed to dodge military conscription thanks to his voice, singing at this time with cantor Shlomo Ravitz . His first … the “famous conductor” Willem van Hoogstraten (1884 – 1965) singing “Russian works by Tchaikovsky.” Echoes of his … consisting of strings and wind instruments. His pristine singing is devoid of any cantorial bravado, reaching a …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… filmed a short movie, more like a clip, with Asher Mizrahi singing one of his songs and accompanying himself on the Ud. …
Jacques Offenbach
… the Paris Conservatoire and both boys earned their keep by singing in a local synagogue choir. Due to financial …
Jan Peerce
… to perform with the Metropolitan Opera until 1966, singing leading roles in Tosca , La Bohème , Faust and many …
David Zehavi
… output. In 1961, he won the Yosef Alkoni Prize for Hebrew Singing for: melodies for choir, children's songs, and folk …
Edward Stark
… 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 … fame and powers as a cantor, after Pesach 1934, Shlisky’s singing career was cut short by a sudden, debilitating …
Moishe Oysher
… known roles were in the films The Cantor's Son (1937), The Singing Blacksmith (1938), and The Vilna Balabosl (1940). …