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Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was born in Kalischt, Bohemia but spent most of his childhood in Iglau,…
Velvel Pasternak
The JMRC mourns the passing of Velvel Pasternak, scholar of Hassidic music and founder…
Moshe Koussevitsky
Moshe Koussevitsky was born in Smorgon, Poland, the eldest of four brothers who all…
Ernest Bloch
Swiss born American Composer Ernest Bloch was born on July 24, 1880 in Geneva,…
Ya'akov Orland
Yaacob Orland was born in 1914 in Tetiev, Ukraine, to Eliezer and Batya Orland. In 1919…
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent…
Sigmund Schlesinger
Sigmund Schlesinger was one of the most influential figures among the group of mid- to…
Manfred Lemm
Manfred Lemm was born on April 17, 1946 in Potsdam. In the 1960s he moved with a band…