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Rafael Schächter
… War I, Schächter moved to Brno, where he began his formal musical studies. He continued his studies at the Prague … of communal singing in the barracks. By 1942, Schächter's organized choral activities began to take shape. In … ensemble. Schächter's efforts inspired other musicians to organize singing groups: Karel Berman formed a girls chorus; …
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 … and men's choirs, as well as an orchestra. In addition, he organized practice and performance venues for his groups, …
Karel Reiner
… 27, 1910 in Žatec (Western Bohemia). Reiner studied law and musicology at the Charles University in Prague, and … a talented pianist, dedicated to propagating contemporary music throughout Europe. Reiner concertized regularly and … Reiner worked for the Jewish Community office in Prague, organizing musical activities. Reiner’s compositional output …
Karel Ančerl
… conducting and composition at the Prague Conservatory of Music. After graduating in 1929, Ančerl worked for Hermann … Although instruments were scarce in Terezín, he managed to organize an ensemble comprised of sixteen first violins, … seconded by veteran violinist Egon Ledeč. Terezín’s music critic Victor Ullmann wrote the following review of …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… kinderlekh ('Fathers, mothers, children'), and soon began organising Yung Vilne, a secular Jewish writing collective … part of the Paper Brigade and joined the United Partisans Organisation, participating in the failed Vilna Ghetto … for Jewish Research website ' Shmerke Kaczerginski ' in Music during the Holocaust website. Other sources: Werb, …
Avraham Slep
… It is not known where he was born or where he received his musical education. Slep began his career as a singing … a professor of solfege at the Vilna Institute of Jewish Music, among whose teachers was Eliyahu Malkin, the teacher … He and Tamara Girshovich, a piano teacher, managed to organize a Jewish music school. Whenever possible, Slep and …
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 … worked as the music director of the Education Alliance organization. Later, as a composer, he collaborated with the …
Elio Piattelli
… from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici … chevaux” (basso)). Inni e poesie liturgiche for choir and organ; Poesia biblica, polifonie for four-vice choir; … 1981-82). On the occasion of the Music and Bible conference organized by Biblia (Siena 24-26 August 1990), he was …
Nahum Heiman
… has won the right to become one of the priests of Hebrew music.' It is not for nothing that Natan Yonatan calls Nahum … says that the families of Heiman, Asaf and Yedoton were the musicians of the first and second temple.' Nahum Heiman … by 'The Dodaim'). In the end of the eighties Heiman organized folk singing evenings with his accordion and …
Joel Walbe
… his business and his way of life. He rejected young Joel's musical interests, and considered the study of music and … the violin secretly in the attic, and by listening to organ music in church services. His first practical … to become a musician. His first musical endeavors involved organizing mandolin bands in various locations and …