… the third type ( hallel ). The opening  sir  is sung by a soloist in a recitative style; the following  sirah , which is also sung solo or in response between the soloist and the audience, has a very rhythmic character and …

The Venezuelan composer and pianist Sebastián Díaz Peña (1844-1926) was born in Puerto…

These are the first and last strophes of one of the most remarkable medieval Hebrew…

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… in 1944, for example, her concert tours included sixty-five solo and orchestral appearances, for which she gained … 1960 under the conductor Carlo Maria Giulini, as the chosen soloist of an eighty-day world tour of the Israel … 1950s, has invited almost exclusively internationally known soloists and relied far less on local artists) she has been …

Kabbalat shabbat ("Welcoming of the Sabbath"), a ritual developed by the kabbalists of…

This is a rhythmicized example of the Hebrew psalmody used for the Sabbath eve (compare…

Born in Praga (near Warsaw). After serving as a cantor in Poland and Germany, he moved…

… Zunser’s song, learns from it that this was apparently a solo dance for the mothers-in-law alone, and this leads him …