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Sigmund Mogulesko
… Bucharest, Rumania in order to study at the Conservatory of Music. After completing his studies at the Conservatory, … joined Abraham Goldfaden 's first Bucharest-based theater troupe. The role of Shmendrik was written for … which later became one of the most popular roles in Yiddish theater. In 1880 Mogulesko formed a theater troupe in …
Leon Blank
… Even from an early age, Blank felt an attraction to Yiddish theater. When the opportunity to travel to the United States with Sigmund Mogulesko ’s theater company arose in 1886, Blank jumped at the chance. … appeared regularly in Jacob Gordin’s plays at the National Theater, Liberty Theater, and Public Theater in New York. …
Alexander Olshanetsky
… stayed in Kharbin (today in China), and conducted a Yiddish theater group there. In 1922, Olshanetsky immigrated to the … U.S. and worked as a composer and conductor for the Yiddish theater. From 1925 and until his death, Olshanetsky was one … in Liebe, 1929. … Composer & conductor of Yiddish theater music … Composer … Conductor … Yiddish … Theater … Music … …
Abraham Ellstein
… active on the radio and broadcasted programs about Yiddish music and Synagogue music. As a composer, he wrote 33 scores for Yiddish musical theater, over 500 Yiddish songs, and some scores for Yiddish … … Songwriter, composer & conductor of the American Yiddish Theater … Abraham Ellstein …
Arnold Perlmutter
… Biography in Milken Archive. … Composer of Yiddish theater music … 0 … Composer … Yiddish … Theater … Arnold Perlmutter …
Herman Wohl
… (Milken Archive) click here . … Composer of Yiddish theater music … 0 … Composer … Yiddish … Theater … Music … Herman Wohl …
Anshel Schorr
… Lemberg cantor Baruch Schorr , was a mainstay of Yiddish Theater in New York and Philadelphia. He worked as a … of activity, Schorr collaborated with some of the Yiddish theater’s most renowned actors and composers such as Joseph … Mayn yidishe meydele . The operetta Shir Hashirim , with music composed by Joseph Rumshinsky, was premiered at the …
Louis Gilrod
… Milken Archive, Click Here … Composer & lyricist of Yiddish theater music … 0 … Louis Gilrod …
Harry Von Tilzer
… Gummblinksy), was born in Detroit in 1872. His passion for music became evident at an early age, and at fourteen he … an up-and-coming lyricist named Andrew B. Sterling. The two musicians became good friends and roomed together in a small … the song 'Down Where the Wurzburger Flows' at the Orpheum Theater in Brooklyn, and Weber & Fields produced the song, …
Jerome Kern
… nine children, of which only three survived. Kern began his musical career under the tutelage of his mother, who was a … Kern composed over 100 songs for a total of thirty musical theater shows. In 1914, Kern had his first big Broadway … music for a series of shows at Elizabeth Marbury's Princess Theater. In 1920, Kern was hired to compose music for …