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Ya'akov Orland
… Dnieper and Dniester rivers and eventually settled in Bessarabia, living for about a year in Chisinau. While there, … Homeland and Mother, " in 1930. This song was later set to music by David Zehavi, a member of Kibbutz Naan and the … (Mitya) Zeira , who would later set many of his poems to music. One of Orland's most notable songs from this period, …
Yedidyah Admon
… education at the Teacher's Seminary in Jerusalem under musicologist Abraham Zvi Idelsohn . From 1923 to 1927 Admon studied Music Theory and Composition in the United States. Upon his … His unique style combined elements from Yemenite, Persian, Arab, and Hassidic music as well as Biblical cantillation. …
Nahum Nardi
… he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory and at the Vienna Music Academy, graduating in 1922. Following his graduation, … work in collecting melodies and songs from the local Arab residents of Palestine and from Jewish communities from … Li Gan , and Ben Nahar Prat , are examples of melodies with Arabic origins. Nardi developed a unique style of piano …
Mordekhai Hershman
… 1920. The enthusiastic superlatives of his figure are comparable to those showered on the greatest starts of the opera … El Temple, he continued to appear in concerts of classical music, record commercial records and tour throughout … the porous line separating secular from the religious musical practices led by great cantors of the time such as …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… community took notice of Asher Mizrahi’s pleasant voice and musical talents, and he began to earn money working as a … the Muslim community in Tunisia and composed many songs in Arabic. In 1919, with the conclusion of WWI and the release … performed in Jerusalem . He was known and admired even by Arabs in their cities and in small towns, and for the women …
David Abikzer
… in Casablanca, Morocco, and it was there that he began his musical education. His vocal talent was evident from a young … the United States, he also graduated from the US School of Music. Abikzer's unique position at Cedarhurst is a … songs and liturgical repertoire in Hebrew, Ladino, and Arabic. This includes albums such as ' Songs of the …
David Zehavi
… my father, and the sounds of the East that came from the Arab cafes near our house.' His father hoped he would be a … 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 …
Moishe Oysher
… Actor and Hazzan Moshe Oysher was born in Lipkon, Bessarabia in 1907. He immigrated to Canada in 1921, where he … made numerous recordings of both secular and liturgical music, collaborating on several occasions with Yiddish music greats, The Barry Sisters, and Abe Ellstein . Oysher …
Emanuel Zamir
… songs, in general, for which he wrote both words and music, portray sceneries borrowed from the world of … ). Zamir served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. There he created groups of singers … tribes, nature, youth, and in which nationality is inseparable from its content and sounds.' Prior to the 1948 …
Sigmund Mogulesko
… and comedian Sigmund Mogulesko was born in Kaloraush, Bessarabia on December 16, 1858. As a young boy, he sang in the … Bucharest, Rumania in order to study at the Conservatory of Music. After completing his studies at the Conservatory, … presentation of Siberia (1892). Mogulesko also wrote the music for M.H. Hurwitz' The Sacrifice and for Jacob …