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Samuel Adler
… he began his university studies. Adler holds degrees from Boston University (B.M.) and Harvard (M.A.). He studied … at the Berkshire Music Center. Following his discharge from the United States Army, he was appointed music director of Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, a position he held from 1953 until 1966. He was also a professor of composition …
Nissan Cohen-Melamed
… was born in Shiraz, Persia, in 1906. His parents, who promised themselves to immigrate to Palestine upon the birth … Rivlin , and later in the choirs of cantor Vardimon. From 1925 to 1926 Melamed studied cantorate and note reading … can be seen in some of his songs that were based on verses from the bible ('Pitchu Li Sha'arei Tsedek' for instance), or …
Ezra Fleischer
… here . To view Fleischer's publications, click here . … Romanian-Israeli Hebrew poet and philologist … Ezra Fleischer …
Herbert Fromm
… Composer of synagogue music See article on Fromm: … http://www.milkenarchive.org/people/view/all/527/Herbert+Fromm … Composer of synagogue music … Herbert Fromm …
Mordecai Gebirtig
… Town is Burning”) was written in response to the Polish pogrom of 1938 in Przytyk. Gebirtig was murdered by the Nazis …
Artur Holde
… critic. His important publication is: Jews in Music: From the Age of Enlightenment to the Mid-Twentieth Century . …
Nikolai Kaufman
… Froim (Friedrich) Herschkovitch, moved to Bulgaria in 1875 from Kishinev and according to family history, he lived … man who spent most of his time reading and singing psalms from holy books. He loved to sing old songs in Yiddish…but … wrote a few articles: “The information I have gathered from my mother and from other relatives is hardly sufficient …
Ivan Lipaev
… Ivan Lipaev played trombone in Russia's first brass quartet starting in around 1888, and in the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra from 1893 to 1912 and from 1924–31. He was also dedicated to the modernization of …
Eric Mandell
… 1988. Musically gifted since his youth, he trained under prominent cantors of his time. At the age of twenty, the … to recover his own materials while purchasing new ones from survivors and immigrant cantors. Upon his retirement in … to the music library of Gratz College where he taught and from where he received an honorary doctorate in 1981. …
James W. McKinnon
… 1989, becoming full professor in 1979 and serving as chair from 1987-89. He was also appointed Richard H. Fogel … Advent Project: The Later Seventh-Century Creation of the Roman Mass Proper , which attempts to reconstruct the history of plainchant from the Patristics (Early Church Fathers) to …