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Moses Michail Milner (Melnikoff)
… B, F. Mikhail (Moshe) Milner: the Jewish composer in Russia as bridge between tradition and innovation . … …
Joseph Schillinger
… He was born in Kharkiv, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) and died in New York …
Platon Brounoff
… composer of Yiddish music. Born in Yelisavetgrad in Russia. In 1891, immigrated to the U.S. and settled in New …
Alexander Olshanetsky
… He played with the Odessa Opera orchestra and toured Russia and Siberia, and later was the choral director for a Russian operetta company. He stayed in Kharbin (today in …
Aaron Lebedeff
… Aaron Lebedeff was born in Gomel, Russia in 1873. As a young adult, he often appeared in … Vera Lubow and joined the Avrom Fishzohn troupe. During the Russian Revolution, he gave concerts for the American Red … the provincial villages and towns of Lithuania, Poland, Russia proper, and Romania. This fondness for Old World …
Joel Walbe
… his education was standard for wealthy Jewish families in Russia. He first studied Torah in the Heder, and then … together with the harsh events in Ukraine (WWI, Pogroms, Russian revolution) compelled Walbe to immigrate to …
Seymour Rechzeit
… Seymour Rechzeit was born on January 18, 1908 in Petrikov, Russian Empire (now Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland). He was an …
Zalmen Mlotek
… classics, instituted bi-lingual simultaneous English and Russian supertitles at all performances and brought leading …
Harry Kandel
… Odessa Conservatory of Music and served in army band of the Russian czar, moving to New York in 1905. He first worked on …
Mark Isakovich Rabinovich
… in 1870 in the town of Zdvyzhensk (Kiev province of the Russian Empire; now Brusilov, Ukraine). He studied music …