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Velvel Pasternak
… those seeking to learn Jewish music of different kinds, and played a key role in preserving Hassidic melodies. He passed …
Milan Slavicky
… Karel Risinger. He then became a music director and radio playwright, being behind more than 500 classical music …
Avraham Soltes
… our time. This applied to his accomplishments as a guitar-playing singer of Italian love- songs, Ladino prayer- songs, …
Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… 1935 to perform his military service, teaching French and playing the violin in the military orchestra. Afterward, he … he was surprised when the Polish Kapo asked if anyone played an instrument. He shyly told of his ability at the violin. The Kapo procured a violin and demanded that he play. He played for more than twenty minutes, and everyone …
Ramon Tasat
Ramón Tasat was born in Buenos Aires. He learned Ladino at his grandmother’s knee. He…
Esther R. Warkov
… University Ph.D. program in Musicology in 1979. Intent on playing Arabic music, she studied ‘ud with leading …
Albert Weisser
… S. Weisser . He studied piano with Isaiah Seligman and played with various dance and jazz bands prior to …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… Yenkiz (conducted by Saul Dickstein) and later played a small role in the melodrama Der Eibiker … for Victor and Asch. From 1938 to 1953 Yardeni (with playwright Viktor Peker) hosted Di Geshichte Fun Mine … site. … cantor, composer, music critic, playwright, songwriter, and lecturer. … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… efforts in the same field still await assessment. Geshuri playing the harmonium, c. 1950s Aside from his journalistic …
Fritz Rikko
… Musicum of New York in 1951. The early music ensemble played many engagements and made recordings, but perhaps is … conductor. Rikko had been a violist with the Busch Chamber Players and taught at the Juilliard School of Music, …