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Abraham Ellstein
… Juilliard School, and later worked as an accompanist for artists like Molly Picon , Mischa Mischakoff, Michel … active on the radio and broadcasted programs about Yiddish music and Synagogue music. As a composer, he wrote 33 scores … Milken Archive. … Songwriter, composer & conductor of the American Yiddish Theater … Abraham Ellstein …
Max Leibowitz
… with his wife Sarah. He had 3 children. Leibowitz was an American klezmer violinist and was a contemporary of other Romanian-born klezmer bandleaders and recording artists in the New York City area that included Abe … and Orchestra: 'Baym Rebbe's Sideh' (Classic klezmer) … American klezmer violinist, composer & conductor … 0 … …
Anshel Schorr
… and impressive corpus, two works should be mentioned in particular: the operetta Shir Hashirim ( 1911) and the song … Mayn yidishe meydele . The operetta Shir Hashirim , with music composed by Joseph Rumshinsky, was premiered at the … of Mayn yidishe meydele , visit the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music website and peruse their exhibit …
Harry Von Tilzer
… Gummblinksy), was born in Detroit in 1872. His passion for music became evident at an early age, and at fourteen he … at this point that he adopted the stage name Von Tilzer, an artistic embellishment of his mother’s maiden name Tilzer. … in the production and publication of early popular American music. Von Tilzer spent the last years of his …
Jerome Kern
… nine children, of which only three survived. Kern began his musical career under the tutelage of his mother, who was a … nearly two million copies. From 1915 to 1919, Kern and partner Guy Bolton wrote music for a series of shows at … (1944). Jerome Kern died in New York in 1945. … Composer of American theater music … 0 … Composer … New York … Broadway …
Zalman Zylbercweig
… In addition to his editorial duties, he published political articles, adaptations of novels, and reviews of books, music, and Yiddish theater. In 1922, Zylbercweig began to … Zylbercweig settled in New York, and began to work for the American branch of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He …
Zalmen Mlotek
… Zalmen Mlotek is an American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer, and the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene …
Mickey Katz
… Meyer Myron 'Mickey' Katz was an American musician and comedian who specialized in Jewish humor. Katz … the song. His songs often lampooned both Jewish and American culture. His songs have been compiled onto CDs, …
Joseph Moskowitz
… Joseph Moskowitz born in Romania. He was an American cimbalom player, and a recording artist in New York City during the first half of the … century. He was a descendant of a family of klezmer musicians and was among the most well-known American …
Herman Berlinski
… (chamber, organ and vocal works). The Herman Berlinsky music collection, which contains writings and compositions … can be found here via the Miliken Archive of Jewish Music. An additional biography can be found here , on the … Information Bulletin of the Library of Congress. … German-American composer and organist … 0 … Herman Berlinski …