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James Levy
… The musical lore of James Levy's family has deep roots in Gibraltar . Toward the end of the 18th century, a man named Hayyim Levy lived … immigration policies. He became the first "Moroccan" cantor to lead High Holidays services at the synagogue of …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of Idelsohn’s autobiography. The original table is available in table format as a PDF … will later become my teacher. The above mentioned cantors had less voice than he, but much sweeter, and their …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century … stay at the [house in the] Ethiopia Street, Father opened a cantorial school in our house and many young men came to … and night copying his manuscripts. Father formed a choir of cantors to sing Hebrew songs for records. One day [in 1922] …
Berukhim atem qehal emmunai
… An old Sephardi piyyut for circumcision, it is sung by the congregation as the child to be circumcised is brought to the kiseh shel … Rabbi Joseph Shalom Gallego of Saloniki, one of the first cantors of the Portuguese community in Amsterdam. It is most …
Keter
… The qeddushah for the Mussaf (Additional) Service of the Sabbath is, like its counterpart in the morning prayers … 2 above ). It shows the influence of 19th century Ashkenazi cantorial music on this hazzan and composer. Upon arrival to …
Lekha dodi
… Kabbalat shabbat ("Welcoming of the Sabbath"), a ritual developed by the kabbalists of Safed in the sixteenth century, is one of … in musical notation (without the text-underlay) in a cantor's manual from Amsterdam dating from the second half …
Isaac Levy
… born in Manisa near Izmir to a Sephardic Jewish family. At the age of three, he moved with his family to then Mandatory Palestine. Levy studied at the Conservatory … he developed his baritone. He worked as a composer and as a cantor. He composed music for Biblical verses and piyyutim …
Kol Nidrei (Gebet am Jom Kipur) – Kol Nidrei (Yom Kippur Prayer)
… music research. This concept was already introduced in the Lieder-Sammelbuch für die jüdische Schule und Familie … Shabbat Zemirot and Holidays songs. Almost a decade after the 1915 Engel-Saminsky polemic regarding the proper … (free in speech) the melody is free and ornamented evoking cantorial singing. Stutschewsky avoided a dissonant …
Eileh Toldot Noah
… This is a comical song about Noah, hero of the Biblical Great Flood, and his fondness for a stiff drink. The text was written by A. Almi (pen name of Eliyahu-Chaim … … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Hazzanut, Hazzanim, Hazzanim – Cantors, Cantors – Hazzanim, Cantors … Hazzan, Hazan, …
Raza Deshabbat
… Raza Deshabbat is the second part of a kabbalist Aramaic text that begins with the words Kegavna deinnun mityahadim le'eila "Just as they … Sabbath). This rendition was composed by Russian/American cantor Pierre Pinchik (1895-1971). … Or Haganuz: Gems of …