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Sholom Secunda
… and C. Once in New York, Mr. Wolf began to manage Sholom's musical career, setting up engagements in a number of … career came to a venerable halt. However, he continued his musical and general education at Eron Prep School, and began … Rolland opened a large, state-of-the-art theater on the Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. The Rolland Theater quickly …
Mordekhai Seter
… occasions, was chosen to conclude the first Israeli Music Celebration (September 1998; an annual festival … as a 10-year old child, and at 16 he went to further his musical education in Europe (Paris, 1932-1937, studying with … on tunes or motives derived from Mizrahi (Jewish Near-Eastern) traditions. Unlike most composers of that time, …
Abraham Moshe Bernstein
… A prolific composer who published both liturgical works and musical settings for Hebrew and Yiddish songs. Published a collection of Eastern European Jewish folk melodies (1927). Two … can be heard here . … Cantor & composer … 0 … American art music … Aleppo … Al Adamot Moreshet … Abraham Moshe Bernstein …
Joseph Shlisky
… elsewhere in North America, Toronto synagogues looked to Eastern Europe to recruit a cantor and his choir, knowing … a means of support. Shlisky never heard a note of Western music until his rise, but joined the Toronto Waves … and left it after a short time. He never thought about a musical career until, one day, he was singing at his sewing …
Jacob Samuel Maragowsky (Zeidel Rovner)
… in Radomyshl, Ukraine. He officiated as a cantor in several eastern European cities, including Rovno (hence his … performed today. Source: Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music . … Cantor … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – Cantors,Cantors – …
Egon Ledeč
… violinist, born March 16, 1889 in Kostelec nad Orlici ( Eastern Bohemia ). Ledeč studied violin performance at the … in 1939. Ledeč was an active soloist and chamber music player in Terezín. He formed the first chamber … Czech … Philharmonic … Terezin … Theresienstadt … Chamber … Music … Egon Ledeč …
Mordekhai Zeira
… born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a musical family, his musical education consisted mostly of a handful of piano … (a source that comes from the land of Israel) of the Eastern sound, but in fact his songs were based on three …
Neil Levin
… and academic life to the scholarly study of the music of Jewish experience from historical, musicological, ethnological, Judaic, and cross-cultural … areas of focus embrace comparative considerations of eastern and western spheres of Ashkenazi Jewry in terms of …
Moshe Wilensky
… Hebrew instruction alongside general studies. Wilensky's musical talent emerged at four when he began playing the … Israeli songs. Within the movement was a choir led by the musician Yitzhak Edel, who greatly influenced Wilensky's … My Homeland"). Wilensky's music blended European and Middle Eastern elements, reflecting a style shared by prominent …
Elio Piattelli
… from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici … is a first attempt to locate, catalog and analyze his musical compositions and other of his scholarly interests … (Apam, Italian, Ashkenazi), Florence (Sephardic), and northeastern Italy (Italian, Sephardi, Ashkenazi). This …