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Haim Effendi
… In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … uncommonly large number of commercial recordings from the early 20th century, speaks of his fame. This reputation is … taken from the liner notes accompanying the JMRC release An Early Twentieth-Century Sephardi Troubadour: The Historical …
Eliakum Zunser
… lived prior to moving to Vilna, where he was born. In his early youth he attended the 'Heder' and sang with cantor … He was the first badhan to have a rudimentary knowledge of music. By his personal qualities he raised the profession of … at Koenigsberg by M.L. Rodkinson. When the pogroms of the early 1880s led to the founding of the pioneering Zionist …
Haim (Heinz) Alexander
… of the first generation, but indeed he acquired formative musical education in Jerusalem, notably with Irma and Stefan … Wolpe, then with Hanoch Jacoby . His pieces from that early period were, however, romantic. He began gaining … in his lively six Israeli Dances (1950), and after the “musical shock” (his own term) he received in Darmstadt …
Tzvi Avni
… as the chair of Israel Composers’ League and ISCM World Music Days (Israel, 1980). Studying with Ehrlich, Ben-Haim … works. He then went to the US for studies of electronic music under Vladimir Ussachewsky. He also studied with … but the piece is based on an original 12-note scale clearly related to his past writings. Also often-performed is …
Al-Mansur Al-Yahudi
… Court musician. Al-Mansur Al-Yahudi was court musician for the Umayyad Caliph Al-Hakam I in Cordoba, Spain in the early ninth century. An historical source from the 17th …
Shoshana Damari
… to Israel at the age of two. She started performing in an early age. She is considered as one of the greatest Israeli … as well. Damari worked with several known Israeli musicians among them Moshe Wilensky, Boaz Shar'abi, Matti …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… European cantor, and maintained this lifestyle throughout nearly all of his career. He is most closely associated with … throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a … musicologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Nearly a century ago, Aron Friedmann, the chief cantor of the …
Tsippi Fleischer
… Fleischer’s (b. Haifa, 1946) formal education encompasses music, musicology, and Semitic languages – all reflected in her works, where she is clearly following the first generation of Israeli composers in …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960's, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. … more accessible, communal modes of prayer. Friedman’s early compositions were designed to be accompanied by simple …
Israel Goldfarb
… to New York in 1893. Although he had a pleasant voice and musical talent, his brother, Samuel Eliezer Goldfarb was acknowledged as the musician in the family. While Samuel began a career in … of congregational responses and services for the yearly cycle, intended for children and for congregational …