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Esther R. Warkov
… Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq and Israel feature … Warkov originally planned to write about the art of instrumental improvisation in Arab music. However, she … of Iraqi-Jewish musicians. Her dissertation centers on instrumental improvisation by these musicians as an …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … selected the materials for the program, but for their instrumental arrangements he most probably counted on the … live lecture, and Kum’s voice exemplifying it. All the instrumental arrangements in the concert by Schlesinger …
Fritz Rikko
… Fritz Rikko was a musicologist and conductor who was an authority on music of the Baroque era. Born in Werden, Germany, he … was Salamone Rossi . Rossi was a Jewish composer and instrumentalist who was active in Mantua in the early …
David Nowakowsky
… concerts comprised of his own liturgical and paraliturgical music, with instrumental accompaniment. As a result of this project, … his work at the Brody Synagogue, Nowakowsky also taught music at several local music schools, later becoming a …
Albert Elias
… teacher. He played with some of the greatest stars of Iraqi music, including Nazem al-Ghazali, Salima Morad, Muhammed … Iraqi maqam and the more widespread Egyptian style of tarab music, which he greatly enjoyed. He also studied law for two … Two recordings for the JMRC publication Taqasim: Instrumental Improvisations in Near Eastern Tradition . ( …
Yedidyah Admon
… education at the Teacher's Seminary in Jerusalem under musicologist Abraham Zvi Idelsohn . From 1923 to 1927 Admon studied Music Theory and Composition in the United States. Upon his … works, cantatas, oratorios, songs, choral arrangements, instrumental works and music for children. … Israeli …
Alexander A. Krein
… He and his five other siblings were taught Jewish folk and instrumental music by his father who was a well known Klezmer musician and poet. In 1908 he began his formal musical …
Michele Bolaffi
… Michele Bolaffi was a distinguished musician and composer active in Livorno in the early 19th century. His tenure as musical director of the Great Synagogue of Livorno can be … considered a turning point in the development of choral and instrumental music for use in the Italian synagogue. Bolaffi …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… community took notice of Asher Mizrahi’s pleasant voice and musical talents, and he began to earn money working as a local hazzan and as an ud musician. He also supported himself by selling embroidered … ha’Yeshana , “Asher Mizrahi was the most famous of the instrumentalists and paytanim that performed in Jerusalem . …
Edward Stark
… years with his brothers in the clothing business, pursuing musical activities in his free time. In April of 1884, Stark … of 1885 traveled to Vienna and to Leipzig to study music formally. In 1891, Stark accepted his first official … … Synagogue … San Francisco … German … Cantorial … Style … Instrumental … Music … Edward Stark …