(733 results found)
Rahamim Amar
… and was the 20th generation in Jerusalem. He started his music career when he served as a trumpet player in the … Credit: Roni Ish-Ran. Full biography at the piyut site (Hebrew). See also an article about his life (Hebrew): רחמים עמאר המלחין והיוצר . … Israeli musician, one …
Hanoch Jacoby
… and immigrated to Palestine in 1934. Took part in Israel's musical life as a violinist in the Israeli Philharmonic … quartets, and also as director of the Jerusalem Academy of Music. Composed in a conservative, tonal style. … dedicated to Hanoch Jacoby. Ben Hamoladot , article in Hebrew by Jehoash Hirshberg with references to Hanoch …
Eli Jaffe
… Born in Jerusalem and graduated from The Hebrew University and the Rubin Academy of Music. Conducted all of Israel's major orchestras, as well … several orchestras abroad. Recorded many albums of Jewish music. Established several institutions for the advancement …
Leon Kornitzer
… . Tina Frühauf: Leon Kornitzer, in: Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era , Claudia Maurer Zenck, Peter … from 1937 describes the collection of Jewish liturgical music found at the then relatively new Jewish National and University at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. According to this report, …
Salah El Kuweiti
… 17. He played violin, sang, composed, and achieved great musical fame in Iraq together with his brother, Daoud, who … preferred Iraqi style. He was very important to Baghdadi musical life – headed the Iraqi broadcasting channel … and Israel, Revisited by Esther Warkov. More articles in Hebrew: Schweitzer, Erez. ' 'Aliyatam Ve-Nefilatam (עלייתם …
Pnina Salzman
… But I fancy an innate sensibility and vitality of musical mind and feeling will preserve her from all that.” ( … of the twentieth century [the only such book published in Hebrew, in 2000]—which says no less about local reception … History of Higher Music Education in Israel 1945–1995 (Hebrew). Tel Aviv: 1998. Elias, William Y. “Salzman, Pnina.” …
Ronit Seter
… Dr. Ronit Seter studies twentieth-century music and specializes in Israeli art music. She served on … of Peabody Conservatory, George Washington University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and American University, … composers and the other on Mordecai Seter’s Midnight Vigil (Hebrew). Dr. Seter earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… ‘ud player, singer, conductor, and performer of Arab art music. He was student of Tanburi Ibrahim Bey in Iraq and was … elements in their own music. He composed songs with both Hebrew and Arabic texts as well as large instrumental and … Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Zemereshet (Hebrew) In this 45-minute sound interview Aharon shares …
Verdina Shlonsky
… symphonic works, a piano concerto, a cantata, chamber music, music for the theater, and many songs (Lieder and popular). … of her generation), in Russian, German, English and Hebrew. She is also the sister of the Israeli author Avraham …
Ben-Zion Orgad
… Orgad has been most known as a principal figure on the music education scene for over three decades. He served as … with Copland . He is also known for the importance of the Hebrew language in his works – vocal as well as … he published a booklet about the musical potential of the Hebrew language. Orgad’s use of biblical and poetic Hebrew …