(504 results found)
Moishe Oysher
… a career as a Hazzan. While officiating at the Rumanian Synagogue, he continued to act periodically. His best known … 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
… a long career arranging both secular and religious Jewish music and was considered to have a gift for writing music … modern and original and yet rooted in traditional folk and synagogue melodies. Among his best known works are his … … Education … Music education … Liturgical music … Synagogue music … Conservative Judaism … Labor … Zionism … …
Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul
… a close friendship with Rabbi Lieben of the Old-New Synagogue in Prague . While in Prague , Schul discovered medieval manuscripts of Hebrew chant in Leiben’s synagogue. This discovery sparked Schul's interest in Jewish musical themes, which he began to incorporate into his …
Mordekhai Zeira
… born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a musical family, his musical education consisted mostly of a … to Jewish melodies, while accompanying his father to the synagogue. He also heard Hassidic music in his house that … of a H assidic niggun that he heard as a child in the Synagogue in Kiev. He saw in these elements a fruitful and …
Yosef Hadar
… Yosef Hadar was born in Tel Aviv in 1926 to a musical family. His mother Yafa and his father Yehiel were … Emanuel Amiran-Pugatchov brought Hadar to the College for Music Educators (Midrasha Lemichanchim Lemusica), which was … entered the repertoire of liturgical prayer melodies. Many synagogues use the melody to sing the piyut, 'Lecha Dodi' …
Neil Levin
… and academic life to the scholarly study of the music of Jewish experience from historical, musicological, ethnological, Judaic, and cross-cultural … courses on the history, development, and repertoire of synagogue music, cantorial art, Yiddish and Hebrew folksong, …
Richard Newman
… and received a master's degree from the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1937 he emigrated with his family to the United … Army and Fought in Europe. After the war, he directed the musical education program for the allied forces in the … of the Jewish Centers in Hillcrest, Long Island, various synagogues in New York, and Philadelphia. From 1972-1984 he …
Elio Piattelli
… by Pasquale Troia Choirmaster of the Tempio Maggiore (Great Synagogue) in Rome from 1948 to 1984, Elio Piatelli enhanced the liturgical life of the synagogue (and beyond) with a choir that sang melodies from … from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici …
Jo Amar
… In the early 1960’s, Jo Amar was a Mizrahi music star. He combined ‘paytanut’ and poetry to create … and others. Amar was a leader of the emerging Mizrahi music scene in Israel, however during the early years of his … away, he continued to perform, singing piyutim in various synagogues. Around the early 2000’s, Amar, father of four …
Sigmund Mogulesko
… on December 16, 1858. As a young boy, he sang in the local Synagogue choir and apprenticed with several well-known … Bucharest, Rumania in order to study at the Conservatory of Music. After completing his studies at the Conservatory, … presentation of Siberia (1892). Mogulesko also wrote the music for M.H. Hurwitz' The Sacrifice and for Jacob …