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Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… Congress of Oriental Music, Cairo. Aharon immigrated from Iraq to Israel in 1935 and developed ‘Oriental’ styles …
Oedoen Partos
… through the synthesis of Yemenite tunes he transcribed from Bracha Zefira. Music in Israel after 1960 was significantly different, following the news from Darmstadt that reached composers only in the late 1950s, …
Ben-Zion Orgad
… texts to music that derives motives and melodic cells from cantilation juxtaposed in multi-layer textures, creating …
Noam Sheriff
… 1960s), to his personal, local interpretation of neo post-romanticism. His major works include orchestral …
Joan Franks Williams
… Brutus! (mezzo solo, 1976), Rudolph Heinemann in Bonn (trombone, 1978), Sevenths to Eight (1979), The Love of …
David Menahem
… David Menachem was born in 1980 to a family who immigrated from Iraq in the 1950s. His maternal grandfather, Rabbi Gurje … album 'Yehuda Halevi Pinat Ibn Gvirol'. He also composed from the piyyutim of Rabbi Yosef Chaim of Baghdad and Rabbi Yosef Mesas. He also composed many piyyutim from Alep. His melodies were performed by the great Sepharad …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… and public figures in Adrianpole, a city which had, from the seventeenth century until WWI, one of the most … two fields in which Isaac Eliyahu Navon excelled as well. From an early stage in life, Navon was influenced by the new … enlightenment) and Jewish nationalism. Educated Jews from eastern and central Europe who settled in Adrianpole had …
Moses Pergament
… conductor, and music critic. His musical influences range from German Expressionism and French Impressionism to Jewish …
Sergiu Natra
… Sergiu Natra was born in Bucharest, Romania. He studied at the Bucharest Academy of Music with … Israel with his wife Sonia in 1961, settling in Tel Aviv. From 1975 to 1985 Natra taught at the Rubin Academy of Music … ' Natra Sergiu .' Imi . … Israeli composer … Composer … Romanian … Israeli … Harp … Sergiu Natra …
Israel Rabinovitch
… Born in Byten, Russia, acquired his first musical knowledge from home and from playing in a Klezmer band. Immigrated to Canada in 1911 …