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Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is an opportunity to revive his biography in our website. A musical and rabbinical prodigy since his early days, Rabbi … other, in addition to the Hebrew and Arabic repertoires of classical Andalusian music. In these “extramural” … it to the schools of Casablanca and eventually to the Israeli, French, and American Moroccan Jewish diasporas. …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … (2015), who focuses on the “contemplative” nigunim of the Israeli Habad Hasidim, and combines musicological … style is irrelevant. Unlike composers of nineteenth-century classical music, the creators and performers of Hasidic …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… Childhood and early musical career Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born in Baghdad in either 1902 or 1896—per Israeli immigration documents—to a family of ten children. … his career in Israel, Zaarur also met with renowned Western classical musicians, among them Leonard Bernstein and Yehudi …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … 1932. She also received a field recording of the mother of classical composer Brian Elias, who moved to Bombay in 1926 … Tassa and the Kuwaity’s: A Search for Belonging Popular Israeli musician Dudu Tassa is the grandson of Daoud …
Armand Sabah
… Israel with his family at age ten. His father came from a musical family related to the renowned Moroccan singer and … in Israel at age ten, Sabah began to integrate into Israeli culture, gradually shifting his musical focus … formal music education in Israel, studying accordion, classical guitar, piano, and violin with private …
Hisqil Qassab
… in the twentieth century. He was the title of pioneer of neoclassical singing in Maqam, and he was almost one of the … the Jews were deported from Iraq as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict, where he continued reading the Maqam and … biographical information See also: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited by Esther Warkov. …
Abraham Salman
… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … maqam to the cosmopolitan Egyptian-styled tarab along with classical Western music repertoire arranged for qanun. He … such projects were his celebrated collaboration with the Israeli rocker Danny Sanderson and the Kaveret Ensemble in …
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 … and marginalized by mainstream (Western-oriented) Israeli culture. Only one Israeli institution— the Israeli … ‘mainstream style’— most commonly referred to today as classical Arabic music, or, following A.J. Racy’s (2003) …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … The Mafṭirim performed Hebrew poetry set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths at the Italian Synagogue in … Italian monarchy. They named their congregation Comunità Israelitico-Straniera di Rito Spagnuolo-Portoghese di …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … which, having its roots in Egypt, saw the revival of classical musical forms and genres such as the qa ṣ ida , … essentially immobile and inaccessible to many, especially Israeli Jews; second, the famous record’s copy on my mobile …