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Zawel (Zevulun) Kwartin
… he later received his first official cantorial post. In his early career, Kwartin also served several communities in St. … United States at the time. In 1926, Kwartin moved to Eretz Israel , settled in Tzfat, and began touring extensively, …
Marc Lavry
… under teachers Scherchen and Glazunov. Lavry’s early career included conducting posts in Riga and … for the broadcasts. Lavry was also a prolific composer of Israeli art music, with a large corpus of oratorios, chamber … one which typified the emerging Mediterranean style of early Israeli folk and art musicians, was his symphonic poem …
Mordekhai Seter
… 1994, immigrated to Palestine in 1926) received the Israel Prize in 1965 for his Midnight Vigil ( Tikkun … has been considered since its premiere in 1961 as an Israeli masterpiece. Midnight Vigil , performed in … among his fellow composers. Seter’s works from his early and middle periods, 1940-1968, share characteristics …
Mattityahu Shelem
… Kibbutz Ramat-Yohanan. Shelem worked as a shepherd, and his early songs include shepherd songs and songs for kibbutz … Grove Music Online . Oxford Music Online . … Israeli composer … Song … Zemer Ivri, Zemer Iveri … Composer … Hebrew … Folksong … Israeli … Folk … Songs … Zemer … Ivri … Kibbutzim … Kibbutz …
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
… about 100 of his pieces have been published by the Israel Music Institute. He was the most distinctive among … in Germany, no less than in his own country. Tal was a 1971 Israel Prize laureate and a 1983 recipient of the … works at a time when that Zeitgeist was at its peak in the early 1950's, Tal became known as the pioneer of electronic …
Mordekhai Hershman
… free) on behalf of the 'Chernikhover Relief Fund'. From an early age Hershman was a child singer in several synagogue … of the “well-known cantor Mordecai Hershman to the Land of Israel.” The size of the title equals the one announcing of … also heard in the screening of the film 'Shir Hashirim” an early Yiddish talkie, when it was presented at the “Metro” …
Hanina Karaczewski
… and are included in what is considered the corpus of early Palestinian-Israel folk songs: Ha’yarah be-keshet; El rosh ha-har; and …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… meal for Shabbat) to be cooked in the Mizrahi oven. From an early age, people in the community took notice of Asher … admirer of Asher Mizrahi, helped him to escape from Eretz Israel on a cargo boat exporting oranges to Malta . The … age of 35, Mizrahi composed a tribute in her honor. In the early 1930’s, Asher Mizrahi traveled to Paris to make a …
Edward Stark
… eldest sons of the Stark family who had moved there in the early 1860’s. The Stark family settled in the German-Jewish … , and Josef was hired to officiate at Congregation Adat Israel . Edward worked for 20 years with his brothers in the … for most of the liturgy for their service. Many of these early arrangements were later included in his collection …
Joseph Shlisky
… had come to assume choirmaster duties there. Shlisky’s early years in Toronto were not easy. The cantor, who … Roumanian-American Congregation on the Lower East Side, Kol Israel Anshe Poland in Harlem, the Talmud Torah Toras Moshe … Shapiro, and other hazzanut superstars. Shlisky sang in Kol Israel (The Voice of Israel) (1931), which dramatized …