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Rahamim Amar
… lived in the city for twenty generations. He started his music career as a trumpet player in the British Police Band, … After his release from the police, he began to play other musical instruments, especially plucked string instruments, … He later founded and directed several other prestigious vocal ensembles in the 1950s and 1960s. The later and most …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… ‘ud player, singer, conductor, and performer of Arab art music. He was student of Tanburi Ibrahim Bey in Iraq and was … for the ‘ud at the 1932 International Congress of Oriental Music, Cairo. Aharon immigrated from Iraq to Israel in 1935 … Hebrew and Arabic texts as well as large instrumental and vocal works in Oriental styles. He had broad knowledge of …
Ben-Zion Orgad
… Orgad has been most known as a principal figure on the music education scene for over three decades. He served as the national Superintendent of Music Education between 1975 and 1988. He studied with … for the importance of the Hebrew language in his works – vocal as well as instrumental; he published a booklet about …
Noam Sheriff
… that also developed a career as a conductor, and as musical director of the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra … Bernstein , he has written over 25 major orchestral and vocal works, and a similar number of chamber and solo works. … (1986), “ Scarlattina ” (piano, 1994), Cello (1996); and vocal with orchestra, such as his trilogy: Mechaye Hametim …
Joan Franks Williams
… 1971, returned to Seattle ca. 1988) directed the chamber music department of the Israel Broadcasting Authority … Haiku (chamber, 1969), Haiku (orchestra, 1972), Frogs (vocal-chamber, tape, 1974), Samson the Hero (vocal-chamber, tape (1975)), You too, Brutus! (mezzo solo, …
Europa Rossi
… 17 th centuries. Europa was the sister of composer and musician Salamone Rossi , and the wife of the Jewish … about her life, suggesting that she sang in women's vocal ensembles and played an accompanying instrument such … Europa, Jewish singer in late Renaissance Mantua.' in Festa Musicologica: Essays in Honor of George J. Buelow . ed. …
Ephraim Skliar
… part in the establishment of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg. In 1912, he settled in Riga, where … and led various choirs. Skliar wrote many choral works and vocal arrangements, set in various genres of Jewish music such as Yiddish songs , among others. Sources: …
Yitzhak Sadai
… in 1949. He studied composition at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music under Uriah Uri Boscovich , and also studied with … Tal . Later he worked as a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Jerusalem (from 1960) and the Tel Aviv Academy of … composed orchestral music, chamber music, and choral and vocal works, some of them with Jewish themes, such as the …
Gershon Ephros
… grandfather, Cantor Moses Fromberg. He received his first musical training while being part of his grandfather's … 1957. Apart fom his cantorial career, Ephros taught Jewish music in Hebrew schools in New York and at the Hebrew Union … Ephros composed many liturgical works, in addition to other vocal and instrumental compositions. Ephros is mostly known …
Salamone Rossi
… Though much ink has been spilled reviewing the vast musical contribution of Jewish-Italian composer Salamone de … as the leader of an ensemble comprised mostly of Jewish musicians. While his first two works are dedicated to Duke … basis for his performances at court events and for his vocal and instrumental compositions. Although it seems that …