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Frederick Piket
… Frederick Piket was born in Hungary, and received his formal musical education in Europe. He was a successful secular music composer and conductor for several decades before …
Moishe Oysher
… his career, Oysher made numerous recordings of both secular and liturgical music, collaborating on several occasions with Yiddish music greats, The Barry Sisters, and Abe Ellstein . Oysher …
Max Helfman
… singer, and educator. He had a long career arranging both secular and religious Jewish music and was considered to have a gift for writing music that was both singable and emotionally complex, which …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
… children'), and soon began organising Yung Vilne, a secular Jewish writing collective whose other members … for Jewish Research website ' Shmerke Kaczerginski ' in Music during the Holocaust website. Other sources: Werb, …
Neil Levin
… and academic life to the scholarly study of the music of Jewish experience from historical, musicological, … spheres of Ashkenazi Jewry in terms of their sacred, secular art, theatrical, and folk music; and the musical … of Jewish Music … Folk music … Jewish music … Ashkenaz … Secular music … Neil Levin …
Elio Piattelli
… from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici … is a first attempt to locate, catalog and analyze his musical compositions and other of his scholarly interests … Ranen Minsky. It should also be noted that even his more secular compositions also draw inspiration from Jewish and …
Uzi Hitman
… and followed a religious lifestyle, whereas his mother was secular. According to Hitman, his father had a great influence on his musical path, and he used to play recordings of his father's … whenever he had visitors. In addition to the cantorial music played in his childhood home, Hitman’s parents …
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 …