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Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… was apprenticed at the age of nine to an itinerant Eastern European cantor, and maintained this lifestyle throughout … associated with the Jewish community of Dubno (today in western Ukraine), but although he officially served there as … and lead services in Jewish communities throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the exceptional musical and emotional …
Israel Goldfarb
… tried to combine two styles of Jewish music: the Eastern European musical tradition, associated with Orthodox Judaism; and the Western European Jewish music, which was connected with Reform …
Joseph Michael Gusikow
… , Belorussia to a fam il y of 'Klezmerim.' Became famous in Europe as a virtuoso musician, wh il e touring and playing … one of the first known Klezmer musicians to appear before a Western audience. For an expanded biography and information …
Betty Olivero
… traditional and ethnic music materials are processed using western contemporary compositional techniques; traditional … Giora Feidman , Trio Mediaeval, and at many major European, North American and Asian festivals. … Israeli …
Jan Radzynski
… compositions merge musical elements of the Jewish Eastern European cantorate, Middle Eastern heterophony, and contemporary Western technique, while retaining a commitment to the great western composers of the past. Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica …
Karel Salmon
… to the Mediterranean style that attempted to blend the Western-European style with near-Eastern, Mediterranean, and Jewish …
Israel Adler
… his seminal work on the diffusion of art music in certain Western European Jewish communities prior to the 19th century, … publication of texts, Adler unraveled unknown sources about Western music history that were buried under the Hebrew …
Israel Alter
… several recordings in 1926, gave numerous concerts across Europe, and became a significant figure in the cantorial … Europe. He undertook an important tour of various cities in Western Europe with Moshe Koussevitzky (the chief cantor in … the tenor range. He mastered both the Eastern European and Western cantorial styles and incorporated both emotional and …
Abraham Baer
… as a cantor and teacher in several communities throughout western Prussia before settling as a cantor at the Goteborg … Jewish world by all accounts, had everlasting effects. Four European editions of Baal T’fillah appeared (Göthenburg, … lore. Although this phenomenon had already taken root in Western European cantorial circles, the reliance on a …
Judit Frigyesi
… the music and literature of the 19 th -20 th centuries in Europe and ritual musics of non-Western cultures (with expertise in the music of Béla Bartók … with interviews) of the Jewish tradition recorded in East Europe and the largest archive of the liturgical music of …