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Aaron Lebedeff
… was born in Gomel, Russia in 1873. As a young adult, he often appeared in Warsaw, where he began his career on stage. … Theater. Lebedeff was a star of the National Theater for six consecutive seasons, at which point Thomashevsky and … Natan Goldberg and Jacob Jacobs. Lebedeff also toured extensively throughout the United States, cementing his status …
Jennie Goldstein
… born in New York in 1896. She began acting at the age of six, playing child roles opposite actor greats Bertha Kalish … revolved around the Yiddish theater; by the age of sixteen she was already running her own theater with her … performers, produced as part of Joel Rubin and Rita Ottens' Jewish Music Series for Wergo. Click here for …
Paul Ben-Haim
… composers. In the search for couleur locale , he worked extensively with the folklore singer Bracha Zephira between … 1939 and 1947; his last arrangements for her were written in 1956. Ben-Haim also served as her accompanist, and … for Zephira. Both works won the Engel Prize. While the six-minute Fanfare for Israel (1949) is one of his most …
Yetta Zwerling
… comedy under the leadership of Leon Errol, and then for six seasons in Philadelphia for Anshel Schorr , who helped …
Tsippi Fleischer
… a renewed trend in art music. This is parallel to a similar tenor in Israeli popular music and so-called world music. … (1989, cantata, text by Chansa, an Arab woman poet of the sixth century). Fleischer is a prolific composer, known and …
Betty Olivero
… most important international awards, given annually only to six composers. In Olivero's works, traditional and ethnic …
Pnina Salzman
… 24, 1922 to an accountant, Schmuel Salzman, and a kindergarten teacher, Lea Salzman (née Kostelanetz), who owned a … in South Africa (1944) and in Australia (1945). During a six-month period in 1944, for example, her concert tours included sixty-five solo and orchestral appearances, for which she …
Ben-Zion Orgad
… for over three decades. He served as the national Superintendent of Music Education between 1975 and 1988. He studied … as instrumental; he published a booklet about the musical potential of the Hebrew language. Orgad’s use of biblical and … (violin, cello and chamber orchestra, 1990), and Six Filigrees (chamber, 1989-1993; no. 6 for string …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… In 1914, Idelsohn published the first volume of his seminal ten-volume work, Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies, … and Baal-t’filloth in the district. When I was less than six months old, my parents moved to Libau, where, due to the … which I called “Thesaurus of Hebrew Melodies” and prepared six volumes. For this purpose I had to visit the well-known …
Israel J. Katz
… and, with S.G. Armistead and J.H. Silverman, the six-volume Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Oral Tradition …