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Platon Brounoff
… Conductor, arranger, and composer of Yiddish music. Born in Yelisavetgrad in Russia. In 1891, immigrated … and conducted the Poale Tsion Choir, the first Jewish secular choir in America. Collected over 300 Jewish folk … March 2010 ). Sources: Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music , Macy Nulman. Passport to Jewish Music: its History, …
Haim Effendi
… In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … in one of the most important centers of Sephardi religious music, Edirne, where a local Jewish choir called Maftirim … his particular style. Secondly, he commanded repertoires of secular songs in at least four languages: Judeo-Spanish; …
Betty Olivero
… Italy. She is a full professor of composition at the Music Department in Bar-Ilan University. Betty Olivero is a … was awarded the Koussevitzky Award by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and the Library of Congress, Washington … complex areas of contrast, such as east and west, holy and secular, traditional and new. Olivero was awarded the Fromm …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… of Adrianpole excelled especially in Hebrew poetry and in music, two fields in which Isaac Eliyahu Navon excelled as … to his public work and community affairs; 2. lyrical, secular poems (about love and nature) or with religious … poetry. He also wrote religious poems which imitate Turkish secular poems, a practice of his predecessors. Navon …
Edwin Seroussi
… in Montevideo, Uruguay, Prof. Seroussi started there his music studies (violin, theory and composition). He … to Israel in 1971 where he studied at the Department of Musicology at the undergraduate and graduate levels … USA. Prof. Seroussi’s research focuses on the sacred and secular musical cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle …
Moses Beregovski
… born in the Ukraine in 1892. He was exposed to liturgical music at an early age through his father who was a teacher … and expression. He valued the artistic contribution of secular folklore, such as love songs and lullabies, and is critical of claims that secular folk music is corrupted by Diaspora culture. …
Mordechai Breuer
… from Germany. In 1942, Breuer studied in a course for music teachers at the Jerusalem Conservatory and received a … at the Hebrew University, which was affiliated with the secular Zionist enterprise. From the early 1950s, Breuer … world of yeshivot and their development. Mordechai Breuer's Musical Education: In the synagogue of the Kahal Adat …
Irene Heskes
… Born in Brooklyn, New York. Was a Music researcher who specialized in Jewish music. Her research included the compilation of a large … music. She published many articles and books concerning secular and sacred Jewish music. Among her books are …
Yehuda Ratzaby
… Library of Israel website. An article he wrote about secular melodies in holy songs (In Hebrew): הניגון הזר בשיר …
Nikolai Kaufman
… Musicologist, folklorist and composer Nikolay (or Nikolaï) … Kaufmann) is considered as one of Bulgaria's foremost music scholars. Although the vast majority of his academic … or Ashkenazic), and holiday or occasion (religious or secular). The songs are in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and …