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Edward Stark
… years with his brothers in the clothing business, pursuing musical activities in his free time. In April of 1884, Stark … was active in many associations, including the Germania Quartet Club, an amateur singing group. He composed several … advocated for the preservation of traditional nusach in the American Reform service. Most of his compositions included …
Joseph Shlisky
… synagogues flourished, and hazzanut began to prosper as an art. Like elsewhere in North America, Toronto synagogues … a means of support. Shlisky never heard a note of Western music until his rise, but joined the Toronto Waves … in the five boroughs, including the First Roumanian-American Congregation on the Lower East Side, Kol Israel …
Joel Rubin
… Joel Rubin is an American clarinetist, Klezmer musician, Ethnomusicologist, and scholar of Jewish … made many recordings of the music. Many of Rubn's academic articles are available on Academia.edu. Biographies: Joel …
Lazare Saminsky
… he became a founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music , working as its first secretary. During this period … and the piece Ch’siddish . In 1913 Saminsky was part of the 'An-ski' expedition in which he collected … has generally been forgotten among those of the important American immigrants of the 20 th century. Sources: …
Neil Levin
… Artistic Director of the Milken Archive since 1993, Neil W. … and academic life to the scholarly study of the music of Jewish experience from historical, musicological, … and folk music; and the musical creativity and life of American Jewry. As a professor of Jewish music on the …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… by Ascap Today as, 'a major force in today's liturgical music.' Issachar Miron has made a name for himself … old. His father, Shlomo Michrowski, an owner of a local department store, a rabbi, and a violinist by education, … and a winner of the Israel Engel Prize for Music . The American musicologist Dr. Rudolf Ganz included in his …
Moshe Wilensky
… in addition to general studies. Moshe Wilensky's talent for music was discovered at the age of four when he played the … Zeira, Emanuel Amiran, and more. In 1937 he formed the quartet 'Gilali' which performed his arrangements of Hebrew … with Damari and Goland, and they had a lot of success among American Jewish communities. In 1950, Wilensky began …
Richard Newman
… and received a master's degree from the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1937 he emigrated with his family to the United States. After receiving American citizenship, he was drafted into the US Army and … Later, as a composer, he collaborated with the UN Film Department. In the 1950s and 1960s he conducted the choirs of …
Nahum Heiman
… Natan Yonatan, Nahum Heiman's friend and writing partner says about his friend (in the opening of Heiman's … has won the right to become one of the priests of Hebrew music.' It is not for nothing that Natan Yonatan calls Nahum … in their first premier album where they used mostly Latin-American rhythms. Heiman said he was surprised when he heard …
Ehud Manor
… Ehud Manor won the Israel Prize in 1998. As part of the reasons for the award, it was said: 'Ehud Manor, … First Channel', is a virtuoso translator of theater and musical plays. He has instilled in our bloodstream dozens of … with the songs he sang in youth movements he listened to American music on records he received from his uncle from …