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Yaakov Huri recordings
… Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” a joint venture … Zentrum für Jüdische Musik (Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, …
Karel Ančerl
… conducting and composition at the Prague Conservatory of Music. After graduating in 1929, Ančerl worked for Hermann … House. He went on to conduct the orchestra in the Liberated Theater in Prague and from 1933-1938, worked as a sound … seconded by veteran violinist Egon Ledeč. Terezín’s music critic Victor Ullmann wrote the following review of …
Jan Peerce
… was offered a long-term contract as a singer at Radio City Music Hall , New York . The exposure Peerce received from regular radio broadcasts of Radio City Music Hall performances won him recognition as a gifted … Theatre Opera. Peerce was also involved in NYC Jewish musical life, making regular appearances as a guest cantor …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… Maier Levi of Esslingen is volume 12 of the JMRC's Yuval Music Series. The new production comprises 179 liturgical … book: “Maier Levi bequeathed to posterity a manuscript of musical scores, a ‘cantorial compendium,’ that must be … event) and Prof. Edwin Seroussi. … Review about book in Musica Judaica Online Reviews … 3 … 3 … 10 … 38840 … 470 … …

Isadore Freed
… States and settled in Philadelphia , PA. Freed studied music formally at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in music at the age of 18. In 1923, Freed spent five months in … in 1926 at a concert sponsored by the Friends of Chamber Music in Philadelphia . The program included a Sonata for …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… on the basis of German aesthetics, in this case poetic and musical. Dort wo die Zeder also shows how the Zionist … wo die Zeder has been profusely printed with and without musical notation and distributed orally since its original … by Leon Kalisch (born in 1882), a member of the “Jüdischen Theaters in Lemberg” that was active in Vienna. [15] It was …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … that Kikhlot yeini has survived in two apparently unrelated musical strands which we have labeled “Zionist” and “Jewish” … of Canaan: Early Songs of the Land of Israel (Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel 12). In his liner notes Mazor …
Chasidic in America
… and actress, Florence Weiss. They performed it on the theater stage, in concerts in North and South America, and … Olshanetsky , the composer who is credited with the music of The Cantor’s Son . This virtuosic, wordless song … East Side of Manhattan in New York City, the hub of Yiddish theater. In America cantors could also perform in …
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, …
Our Children - Unzere Kinder
… children teach adults about the healing possibilities of music, dance and storytelling. Description taken from and … … 1948 … Yiddish … Yiddish Films … Yiddish songs … Yiddish Theater … Poland … Holocaust … Dzigan and Shumacher … Our …