(43 results found)
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… However, what distinguished Geshuri from most of the composers and educators engaged in this new mission was his … Hassidic music (“Haneginah haḥasidit,” Sefer Hashanah: The American Hebrew Yearbook 1 [1931], 74–87). Geshuri dismissed …
Sigmund Schlesinger
… figures among the group of mid- to late-19th-century American synagogue organists and choirmasters who attempted … create and adapt music to suit the new ritual and format of American Reform congregations — before and especially after … 'Sigmund and Jacob Schlesinger and Joseph Bloch: Civil War Composers and Musicians', in American Jewish Historical …
Kurt Weill
… Israel's national anthem) … German Jews … Composer … USA … American composers … Theater music … Jewish music … Hatikva (The …
Aaron Copland
… in England, Belgium, Italy, Austria and Germany, meeting composers and exposing himself to new music. Copland … at the Cos Cob Press, a publishing house for modern American Music. It was also during this period that Copland … strengthening his identity as a composer of uniquely American music. Copland also experimented with film music …
Joseph Achron
… Folk Music . Achron's association with these musicians and composers inspired a change in his compositional style. This … services. In New York , Achron joined the “Mailamm,” the American-Palestine Music Association, a Jewish voluntary … in his obituary as: “one of the most under-estimated modern composers; the originality and profound elaboration of …
Sholom Secunda
… Union. It was a policy of the Union to send actors and composers outside of New York for at least three years … the industry and the number of jobs available for film composers were few and far in between. Sholom returned to … of their organization was similar to that of the ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers); they …
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
… addition, he was an active member of the Society of Jewish Composers. Weisser's compositional output is extensive and … of articles dealing with Jewish liturgical music and the American cantorate. Weisser passed away in 1952, just before …
Mordekhai Hershman
… David Assaf's blog ). The text, that attracted many Jewish composers, is from the Book of Isaiah (2:1-4) and the … wartime disruptions he was not at first well known to the American Jewish community. Word of his resplendent tenor … … Hazzan … Cantorate … Cantor … Ukraine … Synagogue music … American cantors … Yiddish Theater … Yiddish Films … Yiddish …
Lazare Saminsky
… changing the existing repertoire, and encouraging Jewish composers to compose Jewish liturgical works. He aspired for … has generally been forgotten among those of the important American immigrants of the 20 th century. Sources: …
Max Helfman
… Max Helfman was a Polish-born American Jewish composer, choral conductor, pianist, singer, … music … Conservative Judaism … Labor … Zionism … America … American composers … Max Helfman …