… his compositions have been preserved. Newspaper articles, a play and the movie  Ouverture to Glory - Der Vilner shtot …

… age of ten his parents decided that Avner would learn to play the violin, but he soon saw that he had no affinity … inclined to the wind instruments and the piano, which he played later in his life. After failing to learn the violin, it was clear to Avner that he wanted to play a wind instrument, and he began to learn to play the …

… a family of Klezmer musicians. As a child, Ray learned to play Klezmer dance music at Jewish weddings. His parents … from Russia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Ray plays saxophone, clarinet and flute. He taught music for 32 …

… 1935 to perform his military service, teaching French and playing the violin in the military orchestra. Afterward, he … he was surprised when the Polish Kapo asked if anyone played an instrument. He shyly told of his ability at the violin. The Kapo procured a violin and demanded that he play. He played for more than twenty minutes, and everyone …

… the most musical of the choir’s children. Breuer learned to play the piano for several years, until turning thirteen. …

… Boris Thomashefsky, son of Yiddish actor and playwright Pincas Thomashefsky, was born in Tarasche, a … with Thomashefsky’s help, produced Abraham Goldfadn’s play “The Witch” at Turn Hall on August 18, 1882. This … promoting Jacob Gordin and Leon Kobrin's literary Yiddish plays, when other theater producers shied away. Secondly, …

… after only a short while to Europe where he produced his plays in London, Paris, and Lemberg theaters. The most successful of Goldfaden’s early plays were satirical pieces with stereotypical characters … education, he arranged the majority of the music for his plays. Goldfaden’s corpus was very eclectic; he drew from a …

… musical comedy Zayn yidishe meydl  (His Jewish Girl). The play premiered at Schorr’s own Liberty Theater in Brooklyn, …

… ‘Mr. Asher, would you be so kind as to teach me how to play the ud?’ ‘Who are you?’ he asked. ‘I am the niece of … a famous singer), how can you refuse?’ Asher taught her to play the ud, and other basic instruments of song and dance.” …

… Azzori (‘Azzūrī, i.e. Ezra in Arabic) [1] al-Awad (the ‘ud player), son of Aharon ben Shalom Shashoua (Sha’shu’a) was … life for the peoples of Mesopotamia since antiquity, also played an almost magical source and resource in his musical … discarded lute [oud]. He took it, managed to repair it and played on it day and night.” (Gerson Kiwi 1937) Romantic as …

… at the Conservatoire National. (Arom became a horn player because of a war injury, which would only heal years … their first meeting, the three young men would already display well-delineated characteristics. And they each … me to the Jerusalem Conservatoire, where I learned to play the French horn. And, from there, I arrived in Paris. …

… on a number of projects. In 1935, Hoffmeister’s stage play Mládí ve hře (Youth in the Game), premiered at the … Stage) in Prague . Krása’s  Anna Song  from Hoffmeister’s play was particularly well received, and was performed as a …