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Sholom Secunda
… was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson province, to parents Abraham and Anna Secunda. … a manager of cantors and concert artists in New York, offered to help pay for the Secunda family's travel costs to … the Navy Bandleader and was assigned the task of orchestrating the weekly military band shows. Sholom left the …
Mordekhai Seter
… – Tel-Aviv, 1994, immigrated to Palestine in 1926) received the Israel Prize in 1965 for his Midnight Vigil ( Tikkun Hatzot ), an oratorio for tenor, three choirs and orchestra depicting the redemption of the Jewish people. This oratorio has been …
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
… and lecturer, has gained an exceptional reception in the last decades. As one of the most published local … atonal and serial, expressionist and meticulously structured, post-Bergian with soft Darmstadt influences, have … with Hindemith). Almost half of Tal’s over 100 works are orchestral and stage works (operas, oratorios). Only a dozen …
Michele Bolaffi
… a distinguished musician and composer active in Livorno in the early 19th century. His tenure as musical director of the Great Synagogue of Livorno can be considered a turning point in the development of choral and … including an opera Saul, a Misere for three voices and orchestra (1802), a sonetto on the death of Haydn (1809) and …
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
… received his formal musical education at the Istituto Musicale Cherubini in Florence , with a focus … helped to bring Casetlnuovo’s work to the attention of Alfredo Casella, who became one of his most enthusiastic … continued composing art music, producing a corpus of 70 orchestral works and several Operas, including The Merchant of …
Mikhail Gnesin
… Gnesin was born in Rostov-on-Don, son to the local Rabbi. He began his musical education with Cantor … Europe , Gnesin returned to Rostov where he was hired as a composition teacher at the State Music School . … works, Songs from the Old Country (1919) and The Jewish Orchestra at the Ball of the Town Bailiff (1926); and the song …
Mordekhai Hershman
… was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov) in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire, today … stayed there only a few months before he was offered the important position as hazzan of the Great Synagogue … performing at synagogues and as a soloist with local orchestras. In 1920, he emigrated to the United States. The …
Hanina Karaczewski
… received teaching posts at several institutions, including the Herzlia Gymnasium, where he remained for over eighteen … While teaching there, he established a youth choir and orchestra as well as a 200-member choir for adults. … gained wide popularity, and are included in what is considered the corpus of early Palestinian-Israel folk songs: …
Jan Peerce
… in New York City in 1904. Peerce’s first instrument was the violin, beginning his performance career as a violinist for an NYC dance band. In 1933, he was offered a long-term contract as a singer at Radio City Music … with the NBC (National Broadcasting Company) Symphony Orchestra. This engagement catapulted Peerce’s operatic …
Eitan Avitzur
… as a composer. He completed his professional education at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem and at the Mozarteum … in advaced conducting. He has conducted all the important orchestras of Israel in concerts, recordings for the Israeli … important official events in Jerusalem. Avitzur toured for many years with his orchestra in Europe and The USA, …