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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
… , Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol , and Wilde's play Shlomit . In 1946, he released his third poetry book, … a Dove. In 1951, Orland moved to Haifa and began writing plays. His work Hai'r Hazot ("This City") was staged in 1953 at the Ohel Theater, and his play Halishke Hashchora ("The Black Bureau") won the Pinsker …