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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 …
Emanuel Zamir
… songs, in general, for which he wrote both words and music, portray sceneries borrowed from the world of agriculture. This includes shepherds with flutes, … sold on records. In this hopeless struggle against foreign music, in 1948, Zamir started broadcasting on all of the …
Rafael Schächter
… Schächter was born May 27, 1905, in Braila (Rumania). After World War I, Schächter moved to Brno, where he began his formal musical studies. He continued his studies at the Prague Conservatory of Music, where he received degrees in composition and …