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Amit Klein
… journals and books, covering topics such as Cantor Glantz’s Musical Agenda, Carlebach Nusah vs. Cantorial Recitatives, … of 20th-century cantorial recitatives. His paper on the Musical Supplication in the Golden Age of Ashkenazi … him to develop unique tools and applications that merge traditional musicology with cutting-edge technology, …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … he now strove to create an art musical language based on traditional Jewish music. His first attempts were entirely … 1920s and 30s, Achron started to extract short phrases from traditional Biblical cantillation (in the Lithuanian …
Marc Lavry
… Marc Lavry was born in Riga , Latvia and received his formal musical education at the Riga and Leipzig conservatories … Lavry was also a prolific composer of Israeli art music, with a large corpus of oratorios, chamber and … metrical phrases and duple meter characteristic of the traditional folk dance. His Opera, Dan ha’shomer (1945) was …
Sholom Secunda
… and C. Once in New York, Mr. Wolf began to manage Sholom's musical career, setting up engagements in a number of … age prevented him from officiating High Holiday Services in traditional synagogues, he was contracted to lead services … career came to a venerable halt. However, he continued his musical and general education at Eron Prep School, and began …
Mordekhai Hershman
… El Temple, he continued to appear in concerts of classical music, record commercial records and tour throughout … the porous line separating secular from the religious musical practices led by great cantors of the time such as … Renanah Music, 1925) is based, among other motifs, on the traditional Haftarah cantillation. Hershman recorded this …
Isaac Offenbach
… He left his hometown in 1799 to travel as a wandering musician. In his travels he picked up the epithet “der … folders of cantorial compositions and transcriptions of traditional synagogue melodies. His manuscripts were donated … with a German translation, an appendix of original and traditional melodies (1838), and a Hebrew-German youth …
Edward Stark
… years with his brothers in the clothing business, pursuing musical activities in his free time. In April of 1884, Stark … of 1885 traveled to Vienna and to Leipzig to study music formally. In 1891, Stark accepted his first official … in Europe . Stark advocated for the preservation of traditional nusach in the American Reform service. Most of …
Joseph Shlisky
… a means of support. Shlisky never heard a note of Western music until his rise, but joined the Toronto Waves … and left it after a short time. He never thought about a musical career until, one day, he was singing at his sewing … may have been folk songs, Shlisky was also known to perform traditional hazzanut songs on the concert stage, including …
Gideon Klein
… At the age of twelve, Klein moved to Prague to study music and liberal arts at the Jirasek Gymnasium. While in … Kurz. That same year, he began a double-degree program in musicology and philosophy at the Karl University. In the … of varied styles and sources including Moravian folklore, traditional Hebrew melodies, and the work of composers Leos …
Max Helfman
… 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 was modern and original and yet rooted in traditional folk and synagogue melodies. Among his best …