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Abigail Wood
… Lecturer in ethnomusicology in the Department of Music, University of Haifa. Completed her PhD on Yiddish song in contemporary North America at Cambridge University, … research interests include contemporary klezmer and Yiddish song, music in Jewish-Christian relations and music in …
Naomi Cohn-Zentner
… Naomi Cohn Zentner is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Bar Ilan University. She was formerly … Studies. Her Ph.D. from Hebrew University's Musicology department focused on the singing of Sabbath table songs ( zemiroth shabbat ) among Ashkenazi …
Michael Lukin
… In his PhD dissertation, entitled “The Yiddish Folk Song: Poetics and Music” and completed at the Hebrew … music by Jews, and Yiddish verbal folklore. You can read an article on Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3 from the Song of the month archive and other publications at the link …
Yizhak Edel
… a Jewish education, but he was also exposed to music while participating in singing gatherings hosted by his … a violin. He taught himself to play, practicing by playing songs he sang at his grandfather's gatherings. The writer Y. … Trunk proceeded to buy young Edel a new violin, and he started receiving lessons from the violinist in Peretz’s …
Ya'akov Orland
… national buildings like the Jewish Agency headquarters, the Yeshurun Synagogue, and the National Library. In … the Rehavia Hebrew Gymnasium. Orland wrote his first song, "We Sing to You, Homeland and Mother, " in 1930. This song was later set to music by David Zehavi, a member of …
Joseph Achron
… a position as the head of the violin and chamber music departments at the Kharkov Conservatory. Achron's tenure there … limited by the enterprise, and continued his efforts in art music composition and performance. He composed more than … Concerto, op. 60, the Dance of Salome, op. 62, and the song Po En-Harod. From 1925 on, Achron lived in the USA , …
Marc Lavry
… of the Riga Opera. In response to the rise of the Nazi party and the induction of the Nuremburg Laws, Lavry … broadcasts. Lavry was also a prolific composer of Israeli art music, with a large corpus of oratorios, chamber and orchestral works, popular songs, and theater music. Perhaps his most well known piece, …
Gustav Mahler
… Mahler’s musical beginnings in Vienna set him in an artistic environment heavily influenced by the music of … symphonies and his great output of vocal music, including song-symphonies, cantatas, song-cycles, and Leid. The … result of a severe blood infection caused by a chronic heart ailment. He left behind three major posthumous works, …
Nahum Nardi
… classical repertoire with folk music, such as Russian folksongs, Hassidic music and Hebrew songs. In addition to … to Palestine, their relationship became strained, owing partly to a professional dispute. The dispute, according to … with singers of different origin, such as Sarah Ye'ari and Marta Schlamme , producing somewhat different results. As a …
Sholom Secunda
… In November 1907 Mr. Wolf, a manager of cantors and concert artists in New York, offered to help pay for the Secunda … to charge $100 for a Shabbat service. Sholom got his start in Yiddish theater shortly after arriving to New York … sing the lead of 'Home Sweet Home.' Sholom's setting of the Song 'Home Sweet Home' was preferred to that of Rumshinky's, …