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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 senior lecture in the field of musicology on behalf of the Ministry of Education at several …
Kurt Weill
… to the USA. In the USA he was influenced by popular music and jazz, he met several of the outstanding figures of the Broadway stage and began to write musicals that enjoyed tremendous popularity. Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose, Gebrauchsmusik …
Darius Milhaud
… group known as Les Six . He drew inspiration from diverse musical traditions, incorporating jazz, Brazilian rhythms, … and polytonality into his works. He also explored the music of the Jewish community in Comtat Venaissin, … various genres, including symphonies, operas, and chamber music. Full biography in Milken Archive. See also in our …
Aaron Copland
… theory and composition with Rubin Goldmark, continuing his musical education with Goldmark, Victor Wittgenstein and … studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Fontainebleau School of Music in Paris. During his time in Paris, Copland traveled … and Germany, meeting composers and exposing himself to new music. Copland continued his studies with Boulanger long …
Paul Dessau
… Bertolt Brecht, for whose plays he wrote incidental music. Used some Jewish themes in his music (specifically in his oratorio, Haggadah Shel Pesach). …
Erich Walter Sternberg
Erich Walter Sternberg (Berlin, 1891 – Tel-Aviv 1974, immigrated in 1932) was the first…
Abraham Goldfaden
… his songs, as well as other popular Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater pieces created movement to establish a … finally Bar Kochba (1883). Although Goldfaden had no formal musical education, he arranged the majority of the music for …
Theodor Bikel
Born in Vienna, Austria and immigrated to Palestine with his parents at age 13. Studied…
Gershom Sizomu
… practice Judaism. In 2007 he published a CD with music from Abayudaya's tradition, called Sing For Joy: …
Albert Elias
… teacher. He played with some of the greatest stars of Iraqi music, including Nazem al-Ghazali, Salima Morad, Muhammed … Iraqi maqam and the more widespread Egyptian style of tarab music, which he greatly enjoyed. He also studied law for two … to play in private parties. Elias was the last living musicians to have played regularly with the Kuwaiti brothers …