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Uri Aharon
… researcher, author of two books and many articles in music, plays classical, Jewish and folk music on the flute. For …
Kurt Weill
… satirical and surrealistic operas, he became famous with playwright Bertold Brecht through such works as …
Paul Dessau
… ). Known mostly for his collaboration with the famous playwright, Bertolt Brecht, for whose plays he wrote incidental music. Used some Jewish themes in …
Abraham Goldfaden
… after only a short while to Europe where he produced his plays in London, Paris, and Lemberg theaters. The most successful of Goldfaden’s early plays were satirical pieces with stereotypical characters … education, he arranged the majority of the music for his plays. Goldfaden’s corpus was very eclectic; he drew from a …
Gershom Sizomu
Gershom Sizomu is an Ugandan rabbi serving the Abayudaya, a Baganda community in…
Simon Shaheen
… Simon Shaeen is a Palestinian- American oud and violin player and composer. Full biography at Wikipedia. … Ud player … 0 … Composer … Violinist … oud player … Palestinian … USA … Simon Shaheen …
Albert Elias
… Elias was a virtuoso nay player, composer and instrument maker. In Baghdad Elias … studied law as well as the nay with a Syrian teacher. He played with some of the greatest stars of Iraqi music, … the orchestra was disbanded in 1992, Elias continued to play in private parties. Elias was the last living musicians …
Hugo Adler
… followed the Brechtian concept of Lehrstueck (learning-play) . Additionally, he composed a Biblical oratorio, …
Yizhak Edel
… still a child, Edel received a violin. He taught himself to play, practicing by playing songs he sang at his grandfather's gatherings. The … and took him to the house of writer Y.L. Peretz. There Edel played for Peretz and for a famous violinist from Warsaw who …
Ya'akov Orland
… ' by Byron; ' The Ballad from Reding Prison ' and the play ' Shlomit ' by Oscar Wilde. In 1946 he published his … a Dove' . In 1951 Orland moved to Haifa and began writing plays. His play Hair Hazot ('This City') was staged in 1953 at the …