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Moshe Nathanson
… asserts that Moshe Nathanson was in fact responsible for the lyrics that have become so popular today. In 1922, … School of Music). In 1924, he became the cantor for the Society for the Advancement of Judaism (Mordecai Kaplan's … of Nathanson’s most important contributions to the field of Jewish music is his compilation of liturgical melodies, …
Salah El Kuweiti
… his brother, Daoud, who played the 'ud. Salah El Kuweiti performed “mainstream” and other Middle Eastern styles but … due to the lack of appreciation of Arabic music in Israeli society, and due to the huge gap between their fame in Iraq … in Israel. As part of a growing interest in Arab and Jewish-Arab music in Israel, an album of Daoud and Salah …
Betty Olivero
… Olivero is a winner of the most prestigious Emet Prize for Art, Science and Culture (2015), an Israeli prize … influence and make a significant contribution to society. In 2000 Olivero was awarded the Koussevitzky Award … contemporary compositional form, yet is inspired by ancient Jewish and other early musical traditions. Folk material …
Ephraim Skliar
… in 1903, he took part in the establishment of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg. In 1912, he settled in …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… and his mother could not sustain the two of them, so he was forced to work in order to help support the household. … of Palestine) house. In Palestine, 'Adaki discovered that Jewish Yemenite singing is looked down upon, even by … he organized a choir of eighty boys in the Ezrat A h im society. Later, he was invited by the Tel Aviv city council …
Andre Hajdu
… 5 March 1932 to a characteristically assimilated Hungarian-Jewish family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject … and composition in Tunisia. His Diary from Sidi-Bou-Said for solo piano (1960) is a testimony to this experience. … teaching at the Israel Arts and Science Academy of the Society for Excellence Through Education. In this …
Israel J. Katz
… York College (CUNY), chairing the Department of Fine and Performing Arts; and Hebrew Union College as a visiting … (2001– ). He was a founding member of the American Society for Jewish Music (1974) and served as chairman of the board …
Robert Lachmann
… Robert Lachmann was born in Berlin and began his formal education at the University of Berlin and at the … and paraliturgical musical traditions of the local Jewish community, material that served as the base for his … Schunemann and Erich von Hornbostel, Lachmann founded the Society for the Research of Oriental Music. Lachmann was …
Joel Engel
… music editor, a member of the St. Petersburg School of Jewish composers, and one of the founders of the Society for Jewish Folk Music … Joel Engel …
Solomon Rosowsky
… Konservatorium. He helped to found the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music in 1908 and served as the musical director …