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Aaron Copland
… Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent. In 1917 he began studying theory …
Zecharia Plavin
… Juozas Domarkas, and performed youthful recitals throughout Lithuania. From 1977 in Israel, graduated from Tel Aviv … Israeli Broadcasting Authority and - in recent years - for Lithuanian Music Archive. Many thematic duo performances … chamber music collaborations in Israel, Germany and Lithuania. PhD dissertation of Hebrew University (1998) …
Joseph Achron
… Joseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and … then province of the Russian Empire, now Lazdijai , Lithuania . He was initially taught violin by his father … phrases from traditional Biblical cantillation (in the Lithuanian pronunciation accustomed to him) that he believed …
Arno Nadel
… Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in …
Mordekhai Hershman
… position as hazzan of the Great Synagogue of Vilnus (Lithuania) at the young age of 25. During World War I, … the cantor of the prestigious Great Synagogue of Vilnius (Lithuania), a significant accomplishment for a man of 25. …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… known as Ponar ), written in response to the mass murder of Lithuanian Jews in Ponary near Vilna. Full biographies: ' …
Avraham Slep
… Choir), which soon became the musical symbol of the 'Lithuanian Jerusalem'. Slep also took part in the …
Leon Blank
… Leon Blank was born in Lithuania in 1867. When Blank was just a boy, his family …
Aaron Lebedeff
… career on stage. He was nicknamed “Litvak Komiker,” (the Lithuanian Yiddish comic) both for his stage manner, and for … and romanticized the provincial villages and towns of Lithuania, Poland, Russia proper, and Romania. This fondness …
Lucy Levin
… Lucy Levin was born on July 1906 in Vilna, Polish Lithuania. In 1908 she came with her parents to America. She …