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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… (but distinct) from diasporic musical traditions. However, what distinguished Geshuri from most of the composers and … British Palestine four times (1925, 1935, 1938, 1947) and called for the strengthening of the Jewish community there, … of the 1950s in the framework of post-Holocaust trauma. What was initially seen as a national religious revivalist …
Mordekhai Zeira
… events one can see a relation. However, the passing time is what dictates it. What I mean is that today these songs sound very Zionistic, … One night I went to a 'Homeland's Songs Prom,' as it was called back then, which took place in a small room that …
Nahum Heiman
… when he heard their arrangement which was far from what he imagined. He says they insisted, and were right … cleaning employee in the studios of England. The song was called You and Me and The Morning Wind , and was recorded by … have the Greek singer Nana Mouskouri to sing it. This is what he tells of the song: 'I settled in a Bistro under the …
Ehud Manor
… from Israeli roots but from connecting to American music. What pushed me to write was American music. At a young age, … who studied and worked there at the Leo Fuld Israeli club, called 'Sabra'. She wanted to sing and thought it was a good … following his passing is a song he wrote for his brother, called Ach'I Hatzair Yehudah ('My younger brother Yehudah'). …
Haim Effendi
… religious music, Edirne, where a local Jewish choir called Maftirim used to perform its ancient repertoire of … songs in Ladino, as Isaac Algazi did. He moved into what we may today call the “entertainment industry,” … the King, but he cannot come. The envoys told the King what happened, and the King ordered to send police officers …
Moses Beregovski
… Eastern European Jewish folk music. It is unclear exactly what portion of the collection was lost during World War II, but what does remain is housed at the Institute of Theater , … Beregovski argues that there is nothing uniform about “so-called” Jewish folk music in its content, themes, and …
Andre Hajdu
… in this vein was The Floating Tower (1971–3, initially called Mishnayot ), a cycle of 56 lieder for soloists and … diverse and original combinations of instruments. Much of what Hajdu himself considered his major works are … the peak of modernism. In a way, his music prophesied what was going to happen eventually: the disintegration of …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… up my position and traveled to Jerusalem, without knowing what was in store for me. In Jerusalem, I found about 300 … the Academy for the publication of my collection, which I called “Thesaurus of Hebrew Melodies” and prepared six …