(44 results found)
Joseph Achron
… Alexander Krein, and Moses Michail Milner, he founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Achron's association with these … he now strove to create an art musical language based on traditional Jewish music. His first attempts were entirely …
Sholom Secunda
… age prevented him from officiating High Holiday Services in traditional synagogues, he was contracted to lead services … year he developed something of a mentor relationship with Jewish composer Ernest Bloch with whom he studied … Jacobs, Michel Gelbart and Pinhas Jassinowsky , founded the Society for Jewish Composers, Publishers and Songwriters. …
Edward Stark
… in the early 1860’s. The Stark family settled in the German-Jewish community concentrated in the 'East 50’s' of New York … Gesang-Vereins” (“ Germania , or the Dream of a Singing Society”). Stark studied Hebrew and hazzanut with his … in Europe . Stark advocated for the preservation of traditional nusach in the American Reform service. Most of …
Moshe Nathanson
… in Jerusalem in 1899. Until age 10, Nathanson attended a traditional heder (all-boys religious school) in the old … School of Music). In 1924, he became the cantor for the Society for the Advancement of Judaism (Mordecai Kaplan's … of Nathanson’s most important contributions to the field of Jewish music is his compilation of liturgical melodies, …
Salah El Kuweiti
… due to the lack of appreciation of Arabic music in Israeli society, and due to the huge gap between their fame in Iraq … in Israel. As part of a growing interest in Arab and Jewish-Arab music in Israel, an album of Daoud and Salah … Maqam Rast for Orchestra (Innovative version of traditional Iraqi maqam performed by orchestra without …
Betty Olivero
… influence and make a significant contribution to society. In 2000 Olivero was awarded the Koussevitzky Award … given annually only to six composers. In Olivero's works, traditional and ethnic music materials are processed using … contemporary compositional form, yet is inspired by ancient Jewish and other early musical traditions. Folk material …
Israel Adler
… Palestine with his parents at the age of eleven. He pursued traditional religious studies in yeshivot in Jerusalem and … Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn … Adler initiated the foundation of the Israel Musicological Society which he chaired in several tenures. He was founder …
Andre Hajdu
… 5 March 1932 to a characteristically assimilated Hungarian-Jewish family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject … teaching at the Israel Arts and Science Academy of the Society for Excellence Through Education. In this … , a collection of lieder for cantor and piano based on traditional pieces of Ashkenazi hazzanut and Yiddish songs, …
Israel J. Katz
… Judeo-Spanish ballads, comparing the stylistic features of traditional ballads from Jerusalem with those preserved … (2001– ). He was a founding member of the American Society for Jewish Music (1974) and served as chairman of the board …
Amnon Shiloah
… Born in Lanus, Argentina in 1928 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria, Shiloah returned with his … He was also President of the Israel Musicological Society (2001-2003). At the international level he had a … as a leading authority on Arabic music theory and Jewish traditional music. Shiloah’s list of publications includes …