… Zalmen Mlotek is an American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer, and the Artistic … an internationally recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music and a leading figure in the Jewish theatre and … Interview with Zalmen Mlotek of the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater in New York (2008): Professor Edwin Seroussi …

… Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro Konstantinov, Ukraine. In order … his songs, as well as other popular Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater pieces created movement to establish a professional …

… on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began his music studies as a child with his father, Yaakov, who was a … at the Teatro Soleil in the Abasto quarter, one of the four theaters that presented Yiddish musicals and vaudevilles … Eastern-European born American luminaries of the Yiddish theater, Berta Gersten and Jacob Ben Ami , who were on tour …

… Library (NY) in 1959, under the title 'Jews in Music: from the Age of Enlightenment to the Present'. In this book the Jewish contribution to music since the early ninteenth century to this day is … of Jewish managers and stage directors in the musical theater. The place of the Yiddish operetta, so beloved by …

… Yiddish theater star Jennie Goldstein was born in New York in 1896. … childhood and early adulthood revolved around the Yiddish theater; by the age of sixteen she was already running her … produced as part of Joel Rubin and Rita Ottens' Jewish Music Series for Wergo. Click  here for Goldstein's …

… and professional incentives to persuade artists - including musicians, composers, and conductors - to support the … of North Carolina Press … … composer … Composers … 1993 … Music … Conductors … Musicians … Holocaust … Composers … … & Ecomomics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts …

… ' … 10 … 38081 … New York … Tara Publications … … 1990 … Theater … Theater music … Yiddish … Yiddish songs … Eastern Ashkenazi … …

… was born in Cologne to father  Isaac Offenbach , a local music teacher and hazzan. He was identified as a musical … on 15th century Hebrew melodies, debuted at the Jardin Turc Theater.   During the 1840’s Offenbach advanced his career … continued to submit his work to be staged by local Parisian theaters, but met with little success. In 1850 he took a …

… Schönberg, then an engineering student, while studying music in Germany. When Bessie Schönberg was very young the … expansive lap of her career, teaching everywhere from Dance Theater Workshop, London School of Contemporary Dance, Laban … has bestowed its award upon Schönberg, and two Manhattan theaters bear her name. Since 1983 her first name has been …

… play, as was the standard practice in the early Yiddish theater. ‘Flaker, Feirel, Flaker’ crossed the ocean rapidly, … melody appear as two separate items (nos. 21 and 22) in the theater play. Unlike the rather gay tune (Allegretto) of the … the father of Mike, was a renowned actor in the Yiddish theater of New York City. It is clear now how Goldfaden’s …