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Haim Effendi
… In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … extant melodies of well-known songs in Turkish and perhaps Arabic songs too, a procedure which was customary among … songs in at least four languages: Judeo-Spanish; Turkish; Arabic; and modern Hebrew, along with his command of the …
Al-Mansur Al-Yahudi
… Court musician. Al-Mansur Al-Yahudi was court musician for the Umayyad Caliph Al-Hakam I in Cordoba, Spain … in 822, thus helping to initiate 'the splendid era of Arab music in Spain inaugurated by Ziryab.'* *Shiloah, …
Alexander Uria Boscovich
… and conductor), was the leading ideologist of Israeli music, exerting considerable influence on the second … opinionated, ideas concerning national identity in Israeli music. He studied with Nadia Boulanger and Paul Dukas, and … forms, textures, rhythms, and orchestration such as Arab maqamat, taqsim and nouba, heterophony, uneven meter …
Gary Bertini
… Born in Bessarabia (today Moldova), immigrated to Palestine in 1946. … the Israel Chamber Orchestra (1964-1975) and other Israeli musical establishments. Was an acclaimed conductor in Israel … As a composer, known mostly for his incidental theater music. For an extended biography, courtesy of Gary Bertini's …
Shoshana Damari
… as well. Damari worked with several known Israeli musicians among them Moshe Wilensky, Boaz Shar'abi, Matti …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a degree of fame and stardom comparable to that of Yossele Rosenblatt a century later. Cantor … importance of Cantor Salomon in the writings of cantors and musicologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. …
Tsippi Fleischer
… Fleischer’s (b. Haifa, 1946) formal education encompasses music, musicology, and Semitic languages – all reflected in … synthesis. She has incorporated in her works far more Arab melodies, textures and rhythms than most Israeli … as Like Two Branches (1989, cantata, text by Chansa, an Arab woman poet of the sixth century). Fleischer is a …
Ami Maayani
… both Mizrahi and Ashkenazi, as well as elements of Arab music throughout his works. He is known internationally for … no.4, 1982). Maayani studied architecture before his music studies, and after completing his musical education, …
Rahamim Amar
… and was the 20th generation in Jerusalem. He started his music career when he served as a trumpet player in the … style. His style was composed from Spanish-Turkish and Arabic music. However, despite the popularity of Arab music in his time, Amar preserved his unique style in …
Salah El Kuweiti
… 17. He played violin, sang, composed, and achieved great musical fame in Iraq together with his brother, Daoud, who … played and sang, and also through performances with the Arabic Orchestra of Kol Yisrael (Israeli Broadcasting … into a cultural ghetto, due to the lack of appreciation of Arabic music in Israeli society, and due to the huge gap …