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Mikhail Gnesin
… born in Rostov-on-Don, son to the local Rabbi. He began his musical education with Cantor Gerovitz and pianist Oscar … they worked to reorganize the activities of the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Unlike other musicians from the Society, … also a prolific composer in his own right, making use of Jewish folk melodies as the thematic base for his works. …
Mordechai Sobol
… the establishment of the Yuval Ensemble for cantorate and Jewish music, where he served as musical director and conductor. Sources: Encyclopedia …
Mordekhai Hershman
… in New York City at Tomashevsky’s Theatre appeared in The Jewish Daily News of February 20, 1920. The enthusiastic … El Temple, he continued to appear in concerts of classical music, record commercial records and tour throughout … by Tchaikovsky.” Echoes of his appearances dotted the Jewish press that did not spare any superlatives. On …
Mordekhai Seter
… three choirs and orchestra depicting the redemption of the Jewish people. This oratorio has been considered since its … occasions, was chosen to conclude the first Israeli Music Celebration (September 1998; an annual festival … Many are based on tunes or motives derived from Mizrahi (Jewish Near-Eastern) traditions. Unlike most composers of …
Solomon Rosowsky
… Law at the University of Kiev , Rosowsky went on to study music at the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory under … He helped to found the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music in 1908 and served as the musical director … and theater director, and established the first Jewish Conservatory of Music. Rosowsky immigrated to …
Susana Weich-Shahak
… Born in Argentina, lives in Israel since 1958. PhD degree in Musicology at the Tel Aviv University (1986); BA and MA in Musicology and piano at the Conservatorio Nacional (Buenos … 1973, research on the Sephardi Musical Tradition at the Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University, …
Uri Aharon
… researcher, author of two books and many articles in music, plays classical, Jewish and folk music on the flute. For forty-two years he … was a music director and conducted hundreds of concerts for Jewish music with a number of choirs in Israel and abroad, …
Pinhas Minkowski
… tradition with his father, and supplemented his basic musical education by joining the choir of Cantor Nissan … intellectual movement in Odessa. He lectured at the Jewish Conservatory and was the chairman of the Ha-Zamir … auspices he published several articles on the topics of Jewish music and hazzanut. The majority of Minkowski’s …
Robert Lachmann
… It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions … and paraliturgical musical traditions of the local Jewish community, material that served as the base for his seminal work, Jewish Cantillation and Song in the Isle of Djerba (1940). …
Ya'akov Orland
… construction of foundational national buildings like the Jewish Agency headquarters, the Yeshurun Synagogue, and the … Homeland and Mother, " in 1930. This song was later set to music by David Zehavi, a member of Kibbutz Naan and the … (Mitya) Zeira , who would later set many of his poems to music. One of Orland's most notable songs from this period, …
Yitzchak Eshel (Friedlander)
… and taught many young cantors. Recorded albums of cantorial music and Yiddish songs, wrote articles about Jewish music, and composed original pieces. Source: Encyclopedia …
Yeruham Blindman
… his improvisatory vocal style. Although he only had a basic musical education, he composed many arrangements for liturgical music using melodies from Jewish folk songs. … 50019 … Cantor & composer … Yerucham … …