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Samuel Alman
… Podolia in 1877. He began his musical education at the conservatory in Odessa and was a member of the Russian army band based there. After the tragic pogrom … choirs in London . Alman was deeply influenced by the Eastern European cantorial tradition, specifically by the …
Alexander A. Krein
… Alexander Krein was born in the Staraya Ruza region of Moscow in 1883. He and his five other siblings were taught Jewish folk and instrumental music … melodic improvisations and recitative rhythms found in Eastern European liturgical music to imbue his compositions …
Arno Nadel
… Birnbaum , first as a participant in his all boy-choir, and then as a private cantorial student. In 1895 Nadel enrolled in the Jewish Teacher’s Institute in Berlin, and upon … In addition to Synagogue music, Nadel also collected Eastern European Jewish folk music, which he published in …
Nahum Nardi
… He was named after his uncle Dudu 'Noyhem,' who was the court rabbi of the community. He began his piano studies at age seven, … Wedding; Shepherd's Suite; Trumpet Concierto; Eastern Suite for Voice, Cello and Clarinet; and several …
Sholom Secunda
… was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson province, to parents Abraham and Anna Secunda. He was the sixth of nine children born to the Secunda family. In … as a cantor in New York. The Secunda's settled in the Lower East Side of New York City in a tenement building on 12th …
Mordekhai Seter
… – Tel-Aviv, 1994, immigrated to Palestine in 1926) received the Israel Prize in 1965 for his Midnight Vigil ( Tikkun … an oratorio for tenor, three choirs and orchestra depicting the redemption of the Jewish people. This oratorio has been … on tunes or motives derived from Mizrahi (Jewish Near-Eastern) traditions. Unlike most composers of that time, …
Johanna L. Spector
… in various concentration camps, and in 1947 immigrated to the United States. Spector collected many recordings of … Persian, Yemenite, and Indian cultures. She documented these cultures on camera and on film, producing several … a collection of musical instruments from across the Middle East. Sources: Shiloah, Amnon. 'Spector, Johanna.' …
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
… Novaya Ushitsa, Ukraine. As a child, Weisser was exposed to the tradition of Hassidic melodies and Hebrew zemirot through his father Aba Pilderwasser. Weisser began his formal musical … positions at Tiferet Israel, The Nachlat Tzi Synaogue on East 109 St., the Tremont Talmud Torah Synagogue in the …
Mordekhai Hershman
… was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov) in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire, today Chernihiv in Ukraine and died in … The announcement of his first appearance in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City at Tomashevsky’s …
David Zehavi
… Zehavi was an Israeli composer. His grandparents on his father's side immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1877 as part of the first Aliyah. They came to Tiberias and later moved to … and Yom Tov's hymns from my father, and the sounds of the East that came from the Arab cafes near our house.' His …