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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … new technologies of mass dissemination (78 rpm records, films, radio stations, LPs and more). Its development was …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … well. With the rise in America of the consuming classes, film, and the radio, middle-men in music with a passion for … does not mention that this number was restored to the 1943 film of the show (and today of course that number is …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … new technologies of mass dissemination (78 rpm records, films, radio stations, LPs and more). Its development was …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … the Kyiv collection] has attracted the attention of musicians and scholars of Jewish music ever since they … the situation. At the same time, the availability of microfilmed copies of the five volumes of Beregovski’s mostly …
Abraham Salman
… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … repertoire arranged for qanun. He also composed music for films and participated in several genre-bending recordings. … maqam performed by Yaqub al-'Amari. A short excerpt of a film about Abraham Salman (in Hebrew). Saltana . A complete …
Pete Sokolow
… in the Catskills span older and newer generations of Jewish musicians. Sokolow has played with many major figures in … Sokolow has orchestrated numerous albums, musicals and films. His albums include Klezmer Plus , by the group … with Pete Sokolow: Peter Sokolow's Oral History , a filmed interview by Christa Whitney (Brooklyn, New York: …
Armand Sabah
… Israel with his family at age ten. His father came from a musical family related to the renowned Moroccan singer and composer Sami Elmagribi. The love of music in his household was evident through the constant … ensemble since 2002. Additionally, he appeared in the film Bab El Ward (The Flowers Gate), directed by Haim …
Mark Slobin
… Mark Slobin is the Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus at Wesleyan University and the author or … on Afghanistan and Central Asia, eastern European Jewish music, film music, American music, and ethnomusicology theory, two …
Moshe Havusha
… traditions are based on both Syrian (“Halabi”) and Egyptian musical styles. Today, Havusha, who still lives in the Beit Israel neighborhood, is a popular hazzan , payytan , musician, and singer, with a large following across … See also a documentary film about the life of Moshe Havusha (in Hebrew). … Paytan …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed several … the nature of that “performance.” The few seconds of film footage and photos of this event that have survived do …