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Jehoash Hirshberg
… and his mother, Nechama, was an educator. From an early age, he was immersed in music, beginning with violin studies and later switching to … and British Palestine (the Yishuv) before 1948, and the early years of the State of Israel, with a focus on the …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … in 1906. In Jerusalem, he began working as a cantor and music teacher at the Hebrew Teacher’s college. Idelsohn was … overseer of kosher meat in a non-Jewish butchery. In my early childhood my parents lived next to the “Chor-schul” …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… immigrants, Sholom Kalib was a mainstay of Jewish music in mid-twentieth century Chicago, serving as a … he began his lifelong engagement with Western music theory, completing a doctorate at Northwestern … University on Heinrich Schenker which would become an early pillar of English-language scholarship on Schenkerian …
Robert Lachmann
… It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions … the seeds for his doctorate research of North African music. After the war, Lachmann began to study musicology … over 1,000 sound recordings, numerous research documents, early commercial records of Arabic music, and photographs …
Louis Lewandowski
… arrangements as well as introducing some of his own early four-part choral compositions. In 1866, two years … introduced a new romantic style heavily influenced by the music of Felix Mendelssohn. In 1871, Lewandowski published Kol Rinah U’Tfillah , a complete collection of music for Shabbat and Festivals. His seminal work, Todah …
Menashe Ravina
… cantor, leading a synagogue choir. Ravina received his early education at heder schools, an elementary city school, … From a young age, he actively participated in his father's musical pursuits, serving as a choir conductor in the … and the folk dances of Baruch Agadati. During his early years in Israel, Ravina played in the orchestra of …
Amalia Kedem
… Amalia Kedem is the Music Curator and an archivist of the music collection at the National Library of Israel. She … music in various venues. At the JMRC she coordinated some early stages in the development of its website, as well as …
Samuel Adler
… Massachusetts. There the young Samuel Adler displayed his musical talents at an early age. He became his father’s choir director when he was … studied conducting with Serge Koussevitzky at the Berkshire Music Center. Following his discharge from the United States …
Nissan Cohen-Melamed
… Already at a young age Melamed showed interest in music. He used to visit the various synagogues in his area … Koreh in 'Tzeirei Paras' synagogue. In addition to these early musical experiences, Melamed sang as a child in the … 1983. Nissan Cohen Melamed is considered to be one of the early known composers of Mizrachi music (Muzika Mizrachit), …
Joseph Dorfman
… at the Odessa Academy (1958-1965), and later studied Musicology and Composition at the Gnessin Musical Institute … Creative Work of Soviet Jewish Immigrant Composers in the Early 1970's. Ezrati, Keren. The Jewish Idea in the Creative Work of Soviet Immigrant Composers in the Early 1970's. Kreinin, Yulia. 'Dorfman, Joseph.' …