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Boaz Tarsi
… Boaz Tarsi is a composer, theorist, and a singer. His compositions for chamber … instruments have been performed and broadcast throughout the United States, Israel and Europe, hosted by institutions and performers such as the New York Chamber Music Society, the Israeli Sinfonietta, …
Susana Weich-Shahak
… lives in Israel since 1958. PhD degree in Musicology at the Tel Aviv University (1986); BA and MA in Musicology and piano at the Conservatorio Nacional (Buenos Aires) and the Tel Aviv University Music Academy. PhD dissertation on …
Max Wohlberg
… was born in Humene (today in Ukraine). He immigrated to the U.S. in 1923, where he sang in the choir of the Metropolitan Opera and held several positions as cantor. …
Amalia Kedem
… Amalia Kedem is the Music Curator and an archivist of the music collection at the National Library of Israel. She earned her M.A. and PhD …
Simha Arom
… ethnomusicologist who is recognized as a world expert on the music of central Africa, especially that of the Central African Republic. His books include African … Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology (1991). In the 1960s, Simha Arom was sent by the Government of Israel …
James Loeffler
… Ph.D. Columbia University, (2006), Dissertation: 'The Most Musical Nation: Jews, Culture and Nationalism in the Late Russian Empire'; M.A. Columbia University (2000); … Director, Vice-academic co-chair, Jewish Music Forum of the American Society for Jewish Music (New York); Research …
Samuel Adler
… Samuel Adler was born in Mannheim, Germany (1928). His father was Hugo Chaim Adler , a cantor and composer. The family came to the United States in 1939, where Hugo became the cantor …
Max Brod
… Czech writer, poet, playwright, essayist and composer. The first biographer of Janáček. Also supported … Die Musik Israels (1951), he coined (with Boskovich ) the “Mediterranean style”—a term in vogue in the 1940's and 1950's. Written by Dr. Ronit Seter Online …
Judah Loeb [Yehude-Leyb] Cahan
… he frequently attended Saturday night folksong recitals at the home of writer I. L. Peretz. After a brief stint in … New York in 1904, and continued collecting folklore among the Yiddish-speaking Jews of New York. In 1925, Cahan helped organize the American branch of the YIVO, and was selected to lead …
Francis Lyon Cohen
… Jewish music, and supplemented his studies with courses in the Arts Department at University College in London . He … Hackney, London (1883-1885), Dublin Synagogue (1885-1886) the Borough New Synagogue in London (1886-1904) and as a chaplain in the Brittish Army. After his ordination Cohen was hired as …