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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… The author recommended that Geshuri free himself from the “folkloristic-scientific tendencies” of his radio lectures in … including verses from the Haftarah and other “folk or synagogue songs that the Hassidim have no interest … finds its expression particularly in the niggunei devekut (tunes of mystical cleaving), “that is the tune of the soul, …
Joseph Achron
… and Moses Michail Milner, he founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Achron's association with these musicians and … 1911, Achron joined the St. Petersburg “Society of Jewish Folk Music” founded three years earlier by Joel Engel, … famous Hebrew Melody, op. 33, a “free arrangement of folk tunes,” that he remembered from his childhood, is an example …
Mordekhai Seter
… Oedoen Partos and Alexander Boskovich . Many are based on tunes or motives derived from Mizrahi (Jewish … of that time, however, he preferred the use of liturgical tunes over folk ones (hence he did not work with Brakha Tzefira ). …
Nahum Heiman
… the ears of thousands of Israeli singing fans. The Israeli folk song (Zemer Ivri) is the soul of our life in this … hundreds of songs. Many of them became part of the Israeli Folk Song classics, and are known and sung by every Israeli. … in Hodes's folk dancing classes, but instead of playing the tunes regularly, he would improvise. Hodes didn't like it, …
Ehud Manor
… was a member of the working youth movement and he danced folk dances. He was 15 when his father died. Along with the … he knocked on the door and said, 'I wanted to play you some tunes I wrote.' He sat near the piano and started playing …
Paul Ben-Haim
… search for couleur locale , he worked extensively with the folklore singer Bracha Zephira between 1939 and 1947; his … the arrangements that he made for her Sephardi and Yemenite tunes into his symphonies and other works. His eloquent use of these and other traditional tunes, based on French manifestations of orientalism, …
Haim Effendi
… for example, by him being mentioned as a hero in a folktale (no. 5324 at the Israel Folktale Archive, University of Haifa, recorded in 1963 from … prayer book that he held in his hands and started to play tunes of the Evening Prayer, the selihot (penitential …
Manahem Avidom
… based many of their compositions on Yemenite and Sephardi tunes she sang, he was one of the leaders of the … in his works such as his first three symphonies, A Folk Symphony (1945-1958), David (1949) and Mediterranean …
Betty Olivero
… Ricordi , Plane, IMI , Beit Hatefutsoth , and Folkways records companies. Between 2004-2008 Olivero was … by ancient Jewish and other early musical traditions. Folk material appears in rich, nuanced arrangements, or is … as diverse as Judeo-Spanish (sephardic) music, Arab tunes and medieval music integrated into a contemporary …
Oedoen Partos
… the early 1920s, he emulated the Bartók-Kodály approach to folklorism, developed and re-interpreted it through his … his original, local style through the synthesis of Yemenite tunes he transcribed from Bracha Zefira. Music in Israel …