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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 …
Miriam Gideon
… Born in Greeley, Colorado. From an early age, Gideon displayed musical talents and began studying piano. Miriam continued her music studies with her uncle, Henry Gideon, an organ player …
Ami Maayani
… both Mizrahi and Ashkenazi, as well as elements of Arab music throughout his works. He is known internationally for … , and at Columbia University with Ussachewsky in the early 1960's. Among his works are: Harp Concerto (Engel … no.4, 1982). Maayani studied architecture before his music studies, and after completing his musical education, …
Marcus Hast
… the rare items is Hast's earliest collection of synagogue music from 1878 which he edited in collaboration with the … regarding Hast that appeared in the yahoo group jewishulmusic : Hast claims to have published the first volume of … emerged in the 1890s and 1900s, there was in fact a very early volume from 1873 [1878, see above], which is much …