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Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… ‘ud player, singer, conductor, and performer of Arab art music. He was student of Tanburi Ibrahim Bey in Iraq and was … for the ‘ud at the 1932 International Congress of Oriental Music, Cairo. Aharon immigrated from Iraq to Israel in 1935 … by Ronit Seter and Esther Warkov . Photo of Ezra Aharon: courtesy of Esther Warkov. More biographies: The World …
Europa Rossi
… Europa. She was a female singer in the Gonzaga family court of Mantua, Italy in the late 16 th and early 17 th centuries. Europa was the sister of composer and musician Salamone Rossi , and the wife of the Jewish … is known about Madama Europa, as the information comes from court salary records, and from letters of people who saw her …
Walter Zev Feldman
… University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as the literature of the Ottoman and Central … research and published articles on classical and Sufi music in Turkey, the music and poetry of epic in Uzbekistan … music in the United States. His book , Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam,Composition, and the Early Ottoman Instrumental …
Gila Flam
… Ph. D., University of California Los Angeles, Department of Music, 1988. Her thesis: Singing for Survival: Songs of the … the University of Illinois Press in 1992. Director of the Music Department of the Jewish National and University … of the Yiddish songs collection of M. Beregovski. Picture courtesy of Judith Pinnolis, JMWC … Musicologist, …
Mark Kligman
… Mark L. Kligman is the Mickey Katz Chair Professor of Jewish Music at the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles, a Chair … in The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts. Picture courtesy of Judith Pinnolis, JMWC … Researcher … Mark …
Salamone Rossi
… Though much ink has been spilled reviewing the vast musical contribution of Jewish-Italian composer Salamone de … gleaned from references to salary payments from the Mantuan Court, letters from two successive dukes releasing Salamone … to Marquis of Pallazuolo, a prominent member of the Mantuan court, it should not be assumed that Rossi enjoyed permanent …