… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … to Russia to take a position as the head of the violin and chamber music departments at the Kharkov … During that period, he composed mostly works for violin and chamber music. In 1911, Achron joined the St. Petersburg …

… at the Odessa Academy (1958-1965), and later studied Musicology and Composition at the Gnessin Musical Institute in Moscow (1967-1971), receiving his PhD … compositions, including pieces for solo instruments, chamber and vocal music, choral music, ballet, orchestral …

… United States in 1916, and in 1920 was appointed the first Musical Director of the fledgling Cleveland Institute of Music, a position he held until 1925. Bloch’s early works, … were more varied in style; he focused on writing for the chamber ensemble and began experimenting with neo-classical …

… occasions, was chosen to conclude the first Israeli Music Celebration (September 1998; an annual festival … in the Israeli repertoire. In the 1950's he wrote mostly chamber music, notably the often-performed  Sonata  (two … to introverted, enigmatic, and exceptionally coherent chamber music in the 1970's and mostly piano music in the …

… Professor in the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music. His research explores musical structure and meaning a wide variety of genres … including German Lieder, Klezmer, and Jewish liturgical music. His book Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the …

… Marc Lavry was born in Riga , Latvia and received his formal musical education at the Riga and Leipzig conservatories … Lavry was also a prolific composer of Israeli art music, with a large corpus of oratorios, chamber and orchestral works, popular songs, and theater …

… addition to ‘Lekhah Dodi.’ Even more important for the main musical argument of this Song of the Month (see below), the … with corrections apparently by Dato himself, includes a musical reference in its title, “Benigun anshei emunah’ i.e. … of this poem all but disappeared from the Italian Jewish musical memory. Yet, we find some vague traces of its …

… The myth of the biblical figure Jubal as the inventor of music was prevalent among Medieval music threorists while other theorists saw Greek figures such as Pythagoras as the early discoverers of music. The contest between biblical and Greek figures as to …

… anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a short … university-level students in the late Russian Empire was a musician at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. [3] While the … Paula Eisenstein Baker and R. S. Nelson, eds. Leo Zeitlin: Chamber Music (Middleton: A-R Editions, 2009), xvi-xviii. …

… War I, Schächter moved to Brno, where he began his formal musical studies. He continued his studies at the Prague Conservatory of Music, where he received degrees in composition and … in piano. After graduating, Schächter formed a successful Chamber Music Opera, and was a sought after vocal coach. …