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Herman Svet
… Sveta, was the local cantor. He studied at the 'cheder' (religious elementary school). Later he graduated from high … Yehudith Wahl, from Berlin. In 1917 he began writing about music for various Russian-language periodicals in Kiev and … He has recorded over 150 performances on history and music on The Voice of Jerusalem radio station. From 1947 he …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… Jews of Yemen, while at the same time, continuing with his religious studies at night in the synagogue with Rabbi … and studied their repertoire. He had a good voice and musical hearing, as well as a good memory and perception, … Yemenite folklore. Additionally, 'Adaki worked with the musician Menashe Ravina, who transcribed some of the …
Israel Adler
… his parents at the age of eleven. He pursued traditional religious studies in yeshivot in Jerusalem and in Petah … the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and at the Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and … of Jerusalem and the collection of the Institute of Religious Music in Jerusalem , whose director, Avigdor …
Ruth HaCohen (Pinczower)
… HaCohen (Pinczower) is the Artur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she … Society of Fellows. HaCohen investigates the modes by which music participates in shaping the emotional, religious, social, and political worlds since early …
Andre Hajdu
… after the war at the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. There he studied under Endre Szervánszky … immersed himself in Judaism and started to observe Jewish religious practices. At the same time, he mingled in Paris’ … migrations by design or by force, evolving attitudes to religious and national Jewish identity and tensions between …
David de Sola Pool
… Thirteen Americans , Louis Finkelstein ed., Institute for Religious and Social Studies, New York, 1953, pp. 201-217. …
Josef (Yossele) Rosenblatt
… of his time, Rosenblatt composed and arranged numerous religious works and had a major influence on the cantorial … that followed him. Sources: Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music , Encyclopedia Judaica . … Cantor and composer … …
Alfred Sendrey
… Musician, conductor and musicologist Alfred Sendrey was born in 1884 in Budapest, Hungary. He received his formal musical education at the Academy of Music in Budapest. After … began work on another study, Music in the Social and Religious Life of Antiquity (1974), which was published on …
Nikolai Kaufman
… Musicologist, folklorist and composer Nikolay (or Nikolaï) … (1990). There he adds that his grandfather “was a very religious man who spent most of his time reading and singing … Kaufman dedicated efforts to record all Jewish ethnic and religious denominations in his country. From this …
Manifestations of Arnold Schoenberg's abstract versus concrete dichotomy
… Underlying Arnold Schoenberg's music, prose, philosophy, and life-story is a premise that … context of his struggle with three works that share similar religious and philosophical exploration, all three utilize …