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Avraham Slep
… teacher at the Vilna Jewish School. There he conducted a choir that brought him professional fame. In the mid-20s, … Vilner Buildings Gesellschaft (Vilna Educational Society Choir), which soon became the musical symbol of the … a Jewish music school. Whenever possible, Slep and his choir performed in concerts in the ghetto. A few months …
Moshe Wilensky
… introduced to Israeli songs. Within the movement was a choir led by the musician Yitzhak Edel, who greatly …
Richard Newman
… UN Film Department. In the 1950s and 1960s he conducted the choirs of the Jewish Centers in Hillcrest, Long Island, …
Elio Piattelli
… Biography by Pasquale Troia Choirmaster of the Tempio Maggiore (Great Synagogue) in Rome … the liturgical life of the synagogue (and beyond) with a choir that sang melodies from the oral traditions of the … the Royal Philharmonic Academy of Rome with two works for choir. In the post-war period he was director of the choir …
Nahum Heiman
… music for many movies and television series, and guided choirs and singing groups. Heiman was born in Riga, Latvia …
Liron Children Choir
… The Li-Ron choir founded in 1980 by its musical director and conductor Ronit Shapira. The singers of the choir range from the ages of 9 up to 18/ It`s repertoire … in original labguage and Israeli pieces. … Liron Children Choir …
Joseph Roman Cycowski
… family in Lodz, Cycowski's early musical training came as a choirboy (meshorer). He moved to Germany in 1921 to become …
Sigmund Mogulesko
… 16, 1858. As a young boy, he sang in the local Synagogue choir and apprenticed with several well-known hazzanim. As a …
Leon Blank
… to Romania, where he began singing in a local Synagogue choir. Even from an early age, Blank felt an attraction to … at the chance. He started out as a member of Mogulesko’s choir, but slowly worked his way up to solo actor and …
Platon Brounoff
… settled in New York. Founded and conducted the Poale Tsion Choir, the first Jewish secular choir in America. Collected over 300 Jewish folk songs, some of which he arranged for his choir. Composed Yiddish songs (see 'Song of the month,' …