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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… to engage with great musical art as a universal edifying ideal, in conflict with his yearning to understand music in … this creation of a new musical language. Geshuri’s early ideas about Jewish national music in Palestine were … 1930). Two quotes will suffice to show his allegiance to ideas similar to those exposed by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, a …
Kurt Weill
… musicals that enjoyed tremendous popularity. Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful …
Yizhak Edel
… to Western harmony. His music is simple and retains the ideal of communicating with the listener. Edel’s works …
Joseph Achron
… the originality and profound elaboration of Joseph Achron’s ideas guarantee that his work will last”. Due to his time … ethnic musical tradition - first of all, dance rhythms. The idea of a “pure Jewish style” was further developed in the …
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
… thought-provoking autobiography and elsewhere, his ideas are similar to those of Schoenberg’s in Style and Idea : against nationalism in music that is based on …
Ehud Manor
… 'Sabra'. She wanted to sing and thought it was a good idea to take American songs they knew and sing them in …
Eliakum Zunser
… Zionist group Bilu, Zunser lent his support to the young idealists who were heading for a new life in Palestine. In …
Alexander Uria Boscovich
… composers through his thoughtful, albeit opinionated, ideas concerning national identity in Israeli music. He … his last, unfinished work, Names, (1964) he conceived new ideas concerning the use of rhythms of the Hebrew language. …
Pnina Salzman
… Hess, Vladimir Horowitz and Dinu Lipatti. She stressed the idea that the spirit and the caractère of a specific piece …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… to and appreciated his radio programs, if only to gain ideas for the integration of Mizrahi elements in their own …