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My Path to Jewish Music
… of essays Mein Weg zur jüdischen Musik (My Path to Jewish Music), published in Vienna in 1935 by Jibneh-Musikverlag, … also devoted considerable energy to organizing chamber and orchestral concerts of Jewish music through the Society for … of the musical culture of antiquity, especially regarding Oriental peoples. Musical historiography is currently …
Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… by the playlist Edith Gerson Kiwi’s Recordings of Musical Traditions from Iran . “Persia’s geographical … to what she perceived as the most ancient strata of “Oriental music.” By positioning Iran as the pivot of the … as “obvious”, particularly in the so-called Oriental "orchestra" that Spira planned to showcase as the main …
Ezra Aharon (“Azuri”): Report of the Inauguration of Rabbi Ben-Zion Hai Uzziel with the participation of Ezra Aharon’s children’s choir
… verses that are usually recited by Sephardic and Oriental Jews at the opening of the Havdalah ceremony … and conductor of children’s choirs, an aspect of his musical activities during the British Mandate that is not … Elazuri … Arab-Jewish … Iraqi music … Oriental Music Orchestra … ud … Choir … Synagogue … Ezra Aharon ("Azuri") … …
Ezra Aharon (“Azuri”): Report on a reception by the Association for Oriental Hebrew Song
… of Document: Report on a reception by the Association for Oriental Hebrew Song Date of Document: August 15, 1937 … is the conversation about the diffusion of Oriental music was carried out by senior members of the Ashkenazi … Elazuri … Arab-Jewish … Iraqi music … Oriental Music Orchestra … ud … Ezra Aharon ("Azuri") … Ezra Aharon …
The Modernity of Piyyut Creativity: Ozreni El Hay Lehakhni'a
… which in this context means “an instrumental melody” or as musicologist A.Z. Idelsohn remarked “a piece for the military orchestra” ( HOM , vol. 4, p. 99; Idelsohn had in mind the … 11, 1936, in the framework of his documentation of “Oriental” Jewish traditions. This is one of several …
Music of the Jews of Monastir
… Selected recordings documenting the musical tradition of the Jews of Monastir may be accessed … inaccessible, multilingual, and still essentially Oriental community, hardly beginning to be affected by the … the interwar period (1918–1939), include a Jewish mandolin orchestra, a Jewish “Maccabi” drum-and-cymbal corps, and a …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … and also the Hasidim. To get a full concept of the Oriental music, I collected the music of the Arabs, the … Army, and was for a while the conductor of the military orchestra at the front. British Palestine, 1918-1920 …
Armand Sabah
… Israel with his family at age ten. His father came from a musical family related to the renowned Moroccan singer and … he played electric guitar in the university's student orchestra, performing mainly pop music, including songs by … instruction in classical guitar, flamenco, classical and oriental piano, oud, and Kamanga violin. He also worked with …
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
… of the maqam , wrote Na‘im Twayna in his series on Iraqi musicians in Al-Anba’ newspaper (June 30, 1978). It is … Music Broadcast Ensemble … Israel Broadcast Authority’s Oriental music orchestra … Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen) … biography …
Abraham Salman
… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … livelihood. Salman became a member of the Baghdad Radio Orchestra and a favored accompanist of some of Iraqi's … was a prominent member of the Israel Broadcast Authority’s Oriental music orchestra until his retirement in the late …
Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
… occupations out of necessity. Wrote a manuscript on Iraqi music theory but was discouraged by lack of recognition for … … al-Amari … Iraqi Broadcasting Ensemble in Baghdad … Oriental Music Orchestra … oud player … nay player … Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … Broadcast Authority (IBA) —supported an Arabic music orchestra on its ‘Voice of Israel in Arabic’ channel, which … and the Iraqi musicians who joined the state-supported Oriental orchestra were those already familiar with the …


