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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 … activity on his personal website uriaharon.co.il (Hebrew). … Composer, conductor, researcher … Uri Aharon …
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 … Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. List of Hebrew songs he composed, in Zemereshet (זמרשת) and Bait …
Abraham Goldfaden
… as a teacher, Goldfaden published a collection of early Hebrew poems in 1862 in Ha-Meliz , and several of his … his songs, as well as other popular Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater pieces created movement to establish a …
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 … by Esther Warkov. Biography in Bait Lazemer Haivri (Hebrew) An interview with Elias by Babylonian Jewry Heritage …
Bence Szabolcsi
… Bence Szabolcsi was a Hungarian music historian. He was born in Budapest, the younger son … of the Hungarian Jewish weekly Egyenlőség . He studied musicology at Leipzig University, gaining a doctorate in … See also: Szabolcsi, Bence. ' The 'Proclamation Style' in Hebrew music ' in Studies of the Jewish Music Research …
Shoshana Liessmann
… Studied Jewish Studies and Musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, … Frankfurt, graduated in Jewish Civilization at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Topic of MA thesis: “Aspects of Jewish Musical Thought and Jewish Musicianship as a Reflection of …
Naomi Cohn-Zentner
… Cohn Zentner is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Bar Ilan University. She was formerly the head of the M.A. program in Jewish music at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. Her Ph.D. from Hebrew University's Musicology department focused on the …
Michael Lukin
… The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore , Musica Judaica , Yuval , Musik Traditionen , Jerusalem … explore Yiddish folk songs and Hasidic nigunim through ethnomusicological, folkloristic, and historical lenses. He has … at Oxford, a Mandel-Scholion Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University, and a Visiting Fellow at the Katz Center …
Yizhak Edel
… received a Jewish education, but he was also exposed to music while participating in singing gatherings hosted by … His grandfather did not approve of Edel's new path as a musician, but he ultimately gave in. Upon his grandfather’s … two years. In Moscow Edel witnessed the persecution of the Hebrew language by the communist regime, especially in the …
Ya'akov Orland
… in Chisinau. While there, Orland attended the Magen David Hebrew Gymnasium. During the same period, Natan Alterman … 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, …