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Tin Pan Alley
… Nickname for the popular songwriting and sheet-music publishing industry centred in New York … was happy till she met you (1899). Founding firms of Tin Pan Alley included H. Witmark & Sons (the largest company), T.B. …
Harry Von Tilzer
… in the city; he composed a great number of songs that spanned a wide spectrum of styles and forms. Slowly, Von … were made popular by many up-and-coming vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley stars. For example, Nora Bayes premiered the song …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Jazz , Charles Hersch has written an informative and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should … as it emerged from some of the Jewish songwriters of Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville, most notably from George Gershwin. In …
Jerome Kern
… his first song, 'At the Casino' on the Lyceum Publishing Company label. In 1903, Kern traveled to Europe to study music … Germany, eventually settling in London, where he began writing songs for British musical hall productions. Returning … T.B. Harms, the largest publishing company house on Tin Pan Alley. Dryfus hired Kern as a staff pianist, and gave him …

Funny, it doesn’t sound Jewish : how Yiddish songs and synagogue melodies influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood
… songs … Actors … Performers … Performance … Broadway … Tin Pan Alley … Ashkenazi … Jack Gottlieb … Funny, it doesn’t sound …

Wild Man Blues
… to not only see him playing clarinet, which accompanied some of his films' soundtracks, but to also see him …
47. Ten piadad amoroso (Çakum Effendi)
… in the classic Ottoman ghazel style with solo clarinet accompaniment (compare with no. 46 above ) combining lines in Judeo-Spanish and Turkish. In this case, the Ladino text is clearly … by Isachino Pessah from Salonica and issued by several companies but no copy of this second recording has been located …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… communal singing practices as a primary means for disseminating its ethos, echoing patterns of German cultural … at least 1894 as well as among the Jewish settlers in Palestine around the same time. It was also recorded commercially … [15] It was produced in Germany, circa 1910, by the Beka Company, no. 16258 (on the other side is, no surprise, …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… as the culmination of a long improvisatory piece consisting of several sections without clear beat. The easily … revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information available in order to … to the revival of Syrian folk music in a career spanning over fifty years. He is recognized for his mastery …

On the lawn of Kibbutz Ma’abarot
… Eliyahu HaCohen 53 min. Kibbutz Ma'abarot is in the Hefer Valley, not far from Netanya. In 1976, the members of the … cellist Joachim Stutschewsky. … 9 … 34195 … Israel Broadcasting Authority Archive Sponsor … … Niggunim … 1976 … Israeli …