… the atmosphere of each period, as it is expressed in its hopes, sorrows, enthusiasm, yearning for nature, or … I like to write the songs I sing. This is how our friendship began.' [4]   Stories about songs Hultza Kehula The …

'Klezmer' is a Yiddish word for professional folk instrumentalist-the flutist, fiddler,…

… Though he showed promise, Sholom still harbored hope that he would be able to continue his musical career. … that year he developed something of a mentor relationship with Jewish composer Ernest Bloch with whom he studied … Sholom decided to try his luck again in Hollywood. He shopped around his hit song, “Bei Mir Bist Du Schön” to …

… From online blogs to scholarly sources, the song’s authorship is attributed to a number of different composers, such … India. “Balini-b balwa” shares common textual relationships with Juburi al-Najjar’s “Fog al-Nakhal,' and shares structural relationships with the melody of “Fog al-Nakhal,” explored below.  …

… he was admitted to the conservatory with a full scholarship. Under Baron Kolbuss, Sirota studied music theory, vocal … a suburb of Odessa . In 1894, Sirota was offered a scholarship to study at the Conservatory of Vienna, which his …

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… Various attributions of poetic and musical authorship, sometimes contradictory, rendered the song a mythic … ago. Nothing in the content of this song shows any hope for acceptance in an alternative Zion, Germany or the … Box 119, Item 004b. Available online:  https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/15899 . [9]  Abraham Zvi …

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…

… to memorize niggunim. After his father closed his grocery shop in Niwka (in the face of new competition), the family … after World War I. He was a member of the regional leadership of the Mizrachi Youth in Silesia and Zagłębie regions in … its study, and in particular stressed the strong relationship between niggun and dance, as well as some of the major …

… From Munkacs: Gypsy Klezmer explores the symbiotic relationship between the Rom and Jews who lived together before and …