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Velvel Pasternak
… mourns the passing of Velvel Pasternak, scholar of Hassidic music and founder of Tara Publications , a pioneering … he dedicated his efforts to recording and transcribing traditional Hassidic music of various sects, and later other styles of traditional Jewish music. His company, Tara Publications, …
Shlomo Ravitz
… and Fayge in Nevhardak, Belarus. Since childhood, he had musical talents. At the age of 12, he composed cantorial … where he graduated with honors from a high school of music. At the age of 17, he served as a cantor in the … work containing his compositions and arrangements of traditional tunes. One of the associations he perticipated …
Joseph Singer
… Salomon Sulzer ). He published numerous studies on Jewish music and was among the first to investigate prayer chants scientifically, in an attempt to systemize the traditional prayer modes. Sources: Nulman, Macy. 'Singer, … Joseph.' Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music . … Cantor … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, …
Esther R. Warkov
… Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq and Israel feature prominently on the JMRC … Musical Composition in Wales and its Relationship with Traditional Welsh Music submitted to the University of Wales …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … he became acquainted with a vast array of popular and traditional Yiddish songs, as well as, later on, the new … encompassing Encyclopedia of Hassidism printed by “Netzah – Traditional Literary Institute,” which never materialized. …
Amit Klein
… journals and books, covering topics such as Cantor Glantz’s Musical Agenda, Carlebach Nusah vs. Cantorial Recitatives, … of 20th-century cantorial recitatives. His paper on the Musical Supplication in the Golden Age of Ashkenazi … him to develop unique tools and applications that merge traditional musicology with cutting-edge technology, …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … he now strove to create an art musical language based on traditional Jewish music. His first attempts were entirely … 1920s and 30s, Achron started to extract short phrases from traditional Biblical cantillation (in the Lithuanian …
Marc Lavry
… Marc Lavry was born in Riga , Latvia and received his formal musical education at the Riga and Leipzig conservatories … Lavry was also a prolific composer of Israeli art music, with a large corpus of oratorios, chamber and … metrical phrases and duple meter characteristic of the traditional folk dance. His Opera, Dan ha’shomer (1945) was …
Sholom Secunda
… and C. Once in New York, Mr. Wolf began to manage Sholom's musical career, setting up engagements in a number of … age prevented him from officiating High Holiday Services in traditional synagogues, he was contracted to lead services … career came to a venerable halt. However, he continued his musical and general education at Eron Prep School, and began …
Mordekhai Hershman
… El Temple, he continued to appear in concerts of classical music, record commercial records and tour throughout … the porous line separating secular from the religious musical practices led by great cantors of the time such as … Renanah Music, 1925) is based, among other motifs, on the traditional Haftarah cantillation. Hershman recorded this …