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Alexander Uria Boscovich

… forms, textures, rhythms, and orchestration such as Arab maqamat, taqsim and nouba, heterophony, uneven meter …

Gary Bertini

… Born in Bessarabia (today Moldova), immigrated to Palestine in 1946. …

Shoshana Damari

Shoshana Damari was born in Damar, Yemen in 1923. She was taken to Israel at the age of…

Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan

… his singing, he attained a degree of fame and stardom comparable to that of Yossele Rosenblatt a century later. Cantor …

… synthesis. She has incorporated in her works far more Arab melodies, textures and rhythms than most Israeli … as Like Two Branches (1989, cantata, text by Chansa, an Arab woman poet of the sixth century). Fleischer is a …

Ami Maayani

… both Mizrahi and Ashkenazi, as well as elements of Arab music throughout his works. He is known internationally …

Rahamim Amar

… in several parallel venues. He would play with various Arab ensembles and perform in cafes and clubs in Jaffa, where he lived. He would also travel to Arab villages to play at events and celebrations. According … 132), who worked with him, Amar used to play with an Arab-Jewish ensemble during the breaks in silent movie …

Salah El Kuweiti

… played and sang, and also through performances with the Arabic Orchestra of Kol Yisrael (Israeli Broadcasting … into a cultural ghetto, due to the lack of appreciation of Arabic music in Israeli society, and due to the huge gap … of recognition in Israel. As part of a growing interest in Arab and Jewish-Arab music in Israel, an album of Daoud and …

Betty Olivero

… elements as diverse as Judeo-Spanish (sephardic) music, Arab tunes and medieval music integrated into a contemporary …

Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")

… composer, ‘ud player, singer, conductor, and performer of Arab art music. He was student of Tanburi Ibrahim Bey in … ‘Oriental’ styles in Palestine/Israel. He was active on Arabic broadcasting media in Israel and known as a radio … in their own music. He composed songs with both Hebrew and Arabic texts as well as large instrumental and vocal works …