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Arno Nadel
… Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in Koenigsberg under cantor Eduard … became increasingly interested in the collection of Jewish music, and in 1923 was commissioned by the Jewish community … entitled, Hallelujah, for use by cantors and Jewish music researchers. In 1943, Nadel was deported to Auschwitz, where …
Eitan Avitzur
… Born in Jerusalem, 1941. Avitzur started his musical career as a conductor of high school ensembles and … his professional education at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem and at the Mozarteum of Salzburg where he … of Bar-Ilan University, Head of the Israeli Folk Music Research Center … Eitan Avitzur …
Naomi Shemer
… cultural consciousness through her beautiful melodies. Her musical skill was evident in her childhood, and her career … After her army service, she became well known through the musical “ Five-Five, ” essentially an arrangement of her … in the Village .” From the 1950s to the 1990s, Shemer wrote music that was performed throughout Israel. In 1967, she …
Joseph Shlisky
… a means of support. Shlisky never heard a note of Western music until his rise, but joined the Toronto Waves … and left it after a short time. He never thought about a musical career until, one day, he was singing at his sewing … inspection tour in about 1914. Lady Eaton, herself a musical enthusiast and vocal performer, was distinctly …
Joel Rubin
… Joel Rubin is an American clarinetist, Klezmer musician, Ethnomusicologist, and scholar of Jewish music. Since becoming … in the Klezmer revival in the late 1970s, he has been researching, teaching, and performing Klezmer music and …
Julius Chajes
… appointed head of the piano department at the Beit L'viyim Music Academy of Tel Aviv. In 1934, a farewell recital in … his stay in (then) Palestine, Chajes conducted extensive research on ancient Hebrew music. In the wake of this research and due to the local …
Lazare Saminsky
… he became a founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music , working as its first secretary. During this period … cantillations, prayer chants, melodies, and other sacred musical traditions of the Georgian and Persian Jews in … W. 'Lazare Saminsky.' Milken Archive . … Composer, researcher & co-founder of the St. Petersburg Society for …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… many of his own works, and the importance of his labours to researchers and Yiddish cultural activists, his early death … ' Kaczerginski, Shmerke ' in YIVO Institute for Jewish Research website ' Shmerke Kaczerginski ' in Music during the Holocaust website. Other sources: Werb, …
Richard Newman
… and received a master's degree from the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1937 he emigrated with his family to the United … Army and Fought in Europe. After the war, he directed the musical education program for the allied forces in the … zone. He returned to the USA in 1946. Newman worked as the music director of the Education Alliance organization. …
Elio Piattelli
… from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici … is a first attempt to locate, catalog and analyze his musical compositions and other of his scholarly interests … Rome 2003-5763. Despite the commitment and passionate research on the part of Maestro Piattelli and the appearance …