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Shlomo Ravitz
… pieces himself. At the age of 15, he went south to Kiev and Odessa, where he graduated with honors from a high school of …
Joseph Singer
… in an attempt to systemize the traditional prayer modes. Sources: Nulman, Macy. 'Singer, Joseph.' Concise …
David Nowakowsky
… to hazzan Nissan Blumenthal at the Brody Synagogue in Odessa. Nowakowsky was deeply influenced by Blumenthal’s … of music theory and harmony at the People’s Conservatory of Odessa. Odessa was one of the great centers of the Haskalah …
Eliezer Mordecai Ben Isaac Gerovich
… and composer. Born in Ukraine . Studied music in Berdichev, Odessa and St. Petersburg . In 1887 began officiating as …
Ernest Bloch
… violin and piano, the Israel Symphony (1916) and Avodath Hakodesh (1933) for baritone, choir and orchestra. Bloch’s post …
Samuel Alman
… 1877. He began his musical education at the conservatory in Odessa and was a member of the Russian army band based …
Moshe Koussevitsky
… tour as an Opera soloist in Moscow , Leningrad , Kiev and Odessa. In 1947, Koussevitsky emigrated to the United States …
Pinhas Minkowski
… extensively, serving communities in Kherson, Lemberg, and Odessa, finally settling in New York to serve as the chief … Yeshurun Synagogue. In 1892, Minkowski was invited back to Odessa to take office as the chief cantor at the Brody … also deeply involved in Bialik’s intellectual movement in Odessa. He lectured at the Jewish Conservatory and was the …
Mordekhai Seter
… University) from 1951 until his retirement in 1985. A modest figure, he declined any institutional role, and since … these pieces he further developed the use of the original modes that he had invented for Midnight Vigil and … Jerusalem . He created during these decades 33 diatonic modes, which served as his core pitch material for 35 of his …
Wolf Shestapol
… Born in Odessa , Ukraine . Officiated as cantor in Kherson and was a … he was exposed to while singing with Bezalel Shulsinger in Odessa , and studying with Salomon Sulzer in Vienna . His …