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Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… Jacques Stroumsa was born in Salonika in 1913, the son of a … teaching French and playing the violin in the military orchestra. Afterward, he took his first job in industrial … sister Julie, like himself a talented violinist, joined the women’s orchestra in Birkenau. She survived her time there …
Miriam Gideon
… Born in Greeley, Colorado. From an early age, Gideon displayed musical talents and began studying piano. Miriam … composed more than 50 compositions, including works for: orchestra; voice; chamber music; liturgical works; chorales; … An extensive biography can be found here at the Jewish Women's Archive. Another biography can be found here at the …
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
… Anita Lasker was born into a German Jewish family in Breslau, then … was sent to Auschwitz in December 1943. Playing in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz saved her, as cello players were …
Playing for Time
… Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies … camp, where she was a featured performer in the women’s orchestra. Includes detailed descriptions of life in the …
Symphony no. 3
… Symphony in d/F–D, Alto solo, women’s vv, boys’ vv, and orchestra The text in the 4th movement is from F. Nietzsche: …
Inherit the Truth, 1939–45
… Memoir of a member of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz. Includes a translated section from …
Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz
… Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies … in occupied Holland, and her time as music master of the women’s orchestra in Auschwitz. … 1 … Portland, OR … Amadeus Press … …
Brakha Tzefira
… Brakha Tzefira was born in Jerusalem in 1910. Her father emmigrated from … returned to the neighborhoods she grew up in. She asked old women to sing her their songs, and she participated in local … she brought them, for piano, chamber music ensemble, or orchestral accompaniment. Each of the composers was …
Bazetsens (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology … bride sits mutely, like a sheep before her barber, and the women wailed. Then the klezmer began to play sad melodies so … medley, The Bride is Seated can be heard on ‘Andy Statman Orchestra.’” Phillips 1996a, p. 20 . ( Musical notation and …
Sher
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology … dances. The šer and other couple dances were done by women (or girls) alone. In all the descriptions of weddings … p. 78 . “A Laibediga Honga...is based on the Kandel’s Orchestra 1925 recording [Poland]...Whatever sort of dance a …