(24 results found)
Aaron Copland
… he served as the head of the composition department for 25 years. During his time in Tangelwood, he became active in …
Sholom Secunda
… against Russian Jews lasted from 1903 to 1906; during these years the Secunda family experienced acute discrimination … actors and composers outside of New York for at least three years before considering their candidacy. In 1922, Sholom … lived in the Secunda home on Penn street for the first six years of their marriage. In 1928, Betty became pregnant and …
Mordekhai Seter
… other Founding Fathers of Israeli art music, he spent six years of his adolescence in Eretz Israel, mastering native … he declined any institutional role, and since the late 1960s he also refused to teach composition and rejected …
Ehud Manor
… Weiner. As a student of psychology and English in the early 1960s, he edited radio programs on 'Gal Hakol' and 'Kol … are songs he wrote while still in high school and only years later were published, among them for example the … song by Georges Brassens, he wrote in the twelfth grade and years later gave it to Corinne Allal. In 1962, Ehud Manor …
Jo Amar
… Mizrahi music scene in Israel, however during the early years of his career authentic Mizrahi music was completely … residing there. Amar did not publish an album for many years as he focused on Moroccan-Andalusian cantors, all the while giving up his career as a singer. After thirty years of releasing no new material in Israel, Amar released …
Pnina Salzman
… most cherished cultural ambassadors over the last fifty years. Most importantly, she was the only pianist who … Edward de Rothschild, in September 1931, when she was nine years old. During the long summer months, she also studied … violin, and Theo Salzman [not a relative], cello). In the 1960s, she joined a trio with Yona Ettlinger, clarinet, and …
Andre Hajdu
… a librarian at the National Library in Paris. In the early 1960s Adler returned to Israel to found the Department of … State of Israel to its outstanding citizens. In the last years of his life, Hajdu relentlessly performed, and taught …
Leo Levi
… of Fascism and anti-Semitism in Italy. During his student years in Turin, he was arrested twice and charged with … Fellow at the Jewish Music Research Centre. Throughout the 1960s, Levi also conducted an impressive amount of …
The Mystery of Aris San
… arrived in Israel as a young man in 1957 and within five years became a megastar, club owner, close friend of IDF … of countless movie actresses and singers. In Israel of the 1960s, everyone was singing Aris’s hits “Sigal” and “Boom … … Greece … Pop … Popular songs … Greek … Documentary … Years 1960s … The Mystery of Aris San …
On the move
… For ten years, Ehud Banai went around with a recording sample that … careers in Israeli music. From provincial Ramat Gan of the 1960s, via Amsterdam and London, in private houses in Karkur …