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Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… community took notice of Asher Mizrahi’s pleasant voice and musical talents, and he began to earn money working as a local hazzan and as an ud musician. He also supported himself by selling embroidered … Sephardic and Mizrahi communities in Israel and around the world. … Composer & paytan … Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, …
Eliezer S. Abinun
… during the German occupation of Yugoslavia in the Second World War. Sarajevo, with its elegant minarets, was the last … He was an acknowledged authority on both the liturgical music and the secular Romancero tradition of the Sephardim. …
Moshe Zacuto
… See Edwin Seroussi's article (in Hebrew): The Musical World of Moses Zacuto in Light of his Sacred Poetry …
Morton Shanok
… in 1927, and trained with Cantor Adolph Katchko before World War II. Afterward he began to serve as a cantor at … discharged from the army, he attended Manhattan School of Music and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music. Shanok was one of a group of cantors who established …
Eitan Avitzur
… Born in Jerusalem, 1941. Avitzur started his musical career as a conductor of high school ensembles and … his professional education at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem and at the Mozarteum of Salzburg where he … musical life, performing educational youth concerts, world premiers of Israeli compositions, recordings for the …
David Zehavi
… School in the Neve Tzedek neighborhood. During the First World War, he was exiled with his family by the Ottoman … the family returned to Tel Aviv. Zehavi did not study music in an orderly manner due to lack of means. His older sister, Leah Goldis, pushed him to get a musical education and playing the violin. But Zehavi …
Menachem Kipnis
… Full biography from Issachar Fater's Jewish Music in Poland between the World Wars , pp. 182-189, in Zchor website. … Singer, song …
Joseph Shlisky
… a means of support. Shlisky never heard a note of Western music until his rise, but joined the Toronto Waves … . New York’s Lower East Side was the epicenter of the world hazzanut community. Young cantors came to the … yakir li (My Darling Son). Distributed across the Jewish world, the records increased Shlisky’s fame. He also …
Joel Rubin
… Joel Rubin is an American clarinetist, Klezmer musician, Ethnomusicologist, and scholar of Jewish music. Since becoming … a member of, or performed with, such groups as Brave Old World , the J oel Rubin Ensemble , and Veretski Pass. Rubin …
Hans Krása
… spent their summer vacations. Hans studied at the German Music Academy in Prague , after which he accepted a position … George Szell. Rather than associating with fellow Czech musicians, Krása often preferred to socialize and work in … performances of Brundibár for audiences all around the world. … Composer & important figure in the musical life …