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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 … inspection tour in about 1914. Lady Eaton, herself a musical enthusiast and vocal performer, was distinctly …
Jacob Samuel Maragowsky (Zeidel Rovner)
… performed today. Source: Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music . … Cantor … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – Cantors,Cantors – …
David Putterman
… of commissioning various famous composers to compose music for the synagogue. A collection of his compositions … Encyclopedia Judaica . (*The photo is taken from yiddishmusic website) … Cantor … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – …
Joel Rubin
… Joel Rubin is an American clarinetist, Klezmer musician, Ethnomusicologist, and scholar of Jewish music. Since becoming involved in the Klezmer revival in the …
Isadore Freed
… States and settled in Philadelphia , PA. Freed studied music formally at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in music at the age of 18. In 1923, Freed spent five months in … in 1926 at a concert sponsored by the Friends of Chamber Music in Philadelphia . The program included a Sonata for …
Frederick Piket
… Frederick Piket was born in Hungary, and received his formal musical education in Europe. He was a successful secular music composer and conductor for several decades before turning to synagogue music composition. Piket spent his childhood and early …
David Beyglman
… Ostrowiec (Kielce province of Poland). Beyglman began his musical education at a young age, studying several … early years of the war and of ghetto life, and new forms of musical and theatrical expression were adapted to the harsh … of the badhan (wedding entertainer), klezmer (instrumental musician), cantor and meshoyrer (choirboy). During this …
Heinrich Schalit
… As a composer, Schalit wrote orchestral, chamber, and piano music, as well as songs. He used Hebrew poetry for some of his compositions, and composed Jewish liturgical music. Sources: Nulman, Macy. 'Schalit, Heinrich.' Concise Encycloedia of Jewish Music ; 'Schalit, Heinrich.' Encyclopaedia Judaica ; Kahn, …
Julius Chajes
… appointed head of the piano department at the Beit L'viyim Music Academy of Tel Aviv. In 1934, a farewell recital in … Chajes conducted extensive research on ancient Hebrew music. In the wake of this research and due to the local musical influences he was exposed to, Chajes transformed his …
Lazare Saminsky
… he became a founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music , working as its first secretary. During this period … cantillations, prayer chants, melodies, and other sacred musical traditions of the Georgian and Persian Jews in … in the U.S. He settled in New York in 1924, and became the musical director of the reform congregation of Temple …