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Moishe Oysher
… career, Oysher made numerous recordings of both secular and liturgical music, collaborating on several occasions with Yiddish music greats, The Barry Sisters, and Abe Ellstein . Oysher …
Max Helfman
… a long career arranging both secular and religious Jewish music and was considered to have a gift for writing music that was both singable and emotionally complex, which … … Jewish socialists … Education … Music education … Liturgical music … Synagogue music … Conservative Judaism … …
Rafael Schächter
… War I, Schächter moved to Brno, where he began his formal musical studies. He continued his studies at the Prague Conservatory of Music, where he received degrees in composition and … and Siegmund Subak formed a chorus specializing in Jewish liturgical music, Yiddish folk songs, and new Palestinian …
Yosef Hadar
… Yosef Hadar was born in Tel Aviv in 1926 to a musical family. His mother Yafa and his father Yehiel were … Emanuel Amiran-Pugatchov brought Hadar to the College for Music Educators (Midrasha Lemichanchim Lemusica), which was … in many languages and has even entered the repertoire of liturgical prayer melodies. Many synagogues use the melody …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… and by Ascap Today as, 'a major force in today's liturgical music.' Issachar Miron has made a name for himself … KAVOD AWARD for his “immense contributions to Jewish liturgical music” and a winner of multiple prizes for …
Elio Piattelli
… in Rome from 1948 to 1984, Elio Piatelli enhanced the liturgical life of the synagogue (and beyond) with a choir … from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici … Theater of Palermo, Sicily. He taught courses in Hebrew liturgical chant in Italy (Rome, Palestrina, Turin, Milan, …
Moses Michail Milner (Melnikoff)
… He sang with famous cantors in Kiev, later studying music in Kiev and in St. Petersburg, where he participated in the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music (1908). He composed many works based on Jewish themes, as well as Jewish liturgical works. Apart from Jewish music, Milner wrote …
Jo Amar
… In the early 1960’s, Jo Amar was a Mizrahi music star. He combined ‘paytanut’ and poetry to create … in 2009. … Israeli vocalist specializing in Sephardic liturgical and paraliturgical music … Jo Amar …
Abraham Ellstein
… active on the radio and broadcasted programs about Yiddish music and Synagogue music. As a composer, he wrote 33 scores for Yiddish musical … music and synagogal music (see in publications), including liturgical services, operas, oratorios and more. Sources: …
Moshe Nathanson
… Nathanson immigrated to Canada, where he studied Law and Music at McGill University. Mid-degree, Nathanson decided to transfer to the Institute of Musical Art in New York (now the Julliard School of Music). … to the field of Jewish music is his compilation of liturgical melodies, Zamru Lo (4 vols.), which is still …