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David Zehavi
… my father, and the sounds of the East that came from the Arab cafes near our house.' His father hoped he would be a … the family returned to Tel Aviv. Zehavi did not study music in an orderly manner due to lack of means. His older sister, Leah Goldis, pushed him to get a musical education and playing the violin. But Zehavi …
Moishe Oysher
… Actor and Hazzan Moshe Oysher was born in Lipkon, Bessarabia in 1907. He immigrated to Canada in 1921, where he … made numerous recordings of both secular and liturgical music, collaborating on several occasions with Yiddish music greats, The Barry Sisters, and Abe Ellstein . Oysher …
Emanuel Zamir
… songs, in general, for which he wrote both words and music, portray sceneries borrowed from the world of … ). Zamir served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. There he created groups of singers … tribes, nature, youth, and in which nationality is inseparable from its content and sounds.' Prior to the 1948 …
Sigmund Mogulesko
… and comedian Sigmund Mogulesko was born in Kaloraush, Bessarabia on December 16, 1858. As a young boy, he sang in the … Bucharest, Rumania in order to study at the Conservatory of Music. After completing his studies at the Conservatory, … presentation of Siberia (1892). Mogulesko also wrote the music for M.H. Hurwitz' The Sacrifice and for Jacob …
Haim Effendi
… In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … extant melodies of well-known songs in Turkish and perhaps Arabic songs too, a procedure which was customary among … songs in at least four languages: Judeo-Spanish; Turkish; Arabic; and modern Hebrew, along with his command of the …
Al-Mansur Al-Yahudi
… Court musician. Al-Mansur Al-Yahudi was court musician for the Umayyad Caliph Al-Hakam I in Cordoba, Spain … in 822, thus helping to initiate 'the splendid era of Arab music in Spain inaugurated by Ziryab.'* *Shiloah, …
Alexander Uria Boscovich
… and conductor), was the leading ideologist of Israeli music, exerting considerable influence on the second … opinionated, ideas concerning national identity in Israeli music. He studied with Nadia Boulanger and Paul Dukas, and … 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. … the Israel Chamber Orchestra (1964-1975) and other Israeli musical establishments. Was an acclaimed conductor in Israel … As a composer, known mostly for his incidental theater music. For an extended biography, courtesy of Gary Bertini's …
Shoshana Damari
… as well. Damari worked with several known Israeli musicians among them Moshe Wilensky, Boaz Shar'abi, Matti …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a degree of fame and stardom comparable to that of Yossele Rosenblatt a century later. Cantor … importance of Cantor Salomon in the writings of cantors and musicologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. …