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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… trademark sign, the gazelle, and the name of the singer and the song written in Arabic, Hebrew and English. … and the Hebrew, as well as the English inscriptions of the singer’s name read Raf oul Tabba ch , instead of Raphael … the Middle East as British Gramophone and German Odeon and operated in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Iran while …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Riga, who composed his first works there and conducted its opera, in 1934 led five concerts of all-Jewish programs with … field work alone contained 120 songs performed by Jewish singers (p. xxiv), but most of them were not included in the … for the first measure. However, it may be argued that the singer simply did not remember the melody well (as s/he did …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Jewish self-exclusion (such as the famous plot of The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson of 1927) white Jews told themselves … play by S. Ansky) to be the vehicle for the first jazz opera, but something persuaded him to change the subject to …
Jeff Klepper
… an American Jewish Cantor, and one of the pioneers of the singer-songwriter style that took over American synagogue … as a cantor in 1980 in the HUC campus in New York. He cooperated with a lot of Jewish musicians; His best-known cooperation was with Rabbie Dan Freelander. Together they …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… we hope you enjoy this preview. The Algerian Jewish singer Gabriel Sayag recorded the piyyut El shokhen shamayim … no such items have so far resurfaced. Sayag was a young singer of twenty-four years when he recorded for Gramophone … We are grateful to Dr. Eric Karsenty for his cooperation in gathering information on Gabriel Sayag and …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… requires the creation of a special elite group of Hebrew singers. Each singer will be sent to his own country of origin outside … to open itself to the all-embracing effect of a future opera in Hebrew, i.e., the possibility and necessity of …
Karel Berman
… education, Karel Berman started his career as a bass singer of opera in Opava. In March, 1943, Berman was deported … He survived the camps and later became famous as an opera singer. In 1953, he joined the Prague National …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… abandoned the place and gave opportunity to another poor singer. I wanted to enter the Jewish College, but I had … I was accepted in the Stern’sches Conservatorium in the opera-class of Seidemann. [8] The Director of the … of which he was the leader. My first participation in the opera, however, ended badly; disgusted with the immoral …
Sarah Harat
… songs on topical issues. For example after the “ Entebbe Operation ” she wrote a song about Ugandan President Idi … and composed for the band Tzliley HaKerem, for the Yemenite singer Avner Gadasi and more. [ 2 ] We would like to thank … " at Wikipedia. (Hebrew) … 40548 … Yemenite meshoreret (singer-songwriter) … Henna … Hina … 23812 … Yemen … Diwan … …
Léibele Schwartz
… Yiddish theatre in Buenos Aires. He appeared as actor and singer in the musical A fon vert geboyrn ( A flag is born ), … of Paloma Efron (“Blackie”, Argentine’s first female jazz singer), along with notable artists such as Dina Rot , Berta … a wide repertoire that included Jewish liturgical music, opera arias and works from the repertoire of the musical …