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Betty Olivero
… Italy. She is a full professor of composition at the Music Department in Bar-Ilan University. Betty Olivero is a … was awarded the Koussevitzky Award by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and the Library of Congress, Washington … elements as diverse as Judeo-Spanish (sephardic) music, Arab tunes and medieval music integrated into a contemporary …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… composer, ‘ud player, singer, conductor, and performer of Arab art music. He was student of Tanburi Ibrahim Bey in Iraq and was … ‘Oriental’ styles in Palestine/Israel. He was active on Arabic broadcasting media in Israel and known as a radio …
Verdina Shlonsky
… symphonic works, a piano concerto, a cantata, chamber music, music for the theater, and many songs (Lieder and popular). … written. She also published many writings about music (comparable only to Stutschewsky and Boskovich of her …
David Menahem
… the cantor Moshe Havusha , taught him the secrets of the Arab Maqam musical system and Arabic musical instruments. Since childhood, along with …
Al-Gharid Al-Yahudi
… seventh century), poet, singer, and composer from Medina in Arabia. Al-Gharid al-Yahudi is not to be confused with … period to the ninth century, all of which had been set to music. Al-Gharid the Jew is described in this book as a …
Yitzhak Sadai
… in 1949. He studied composition at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music under Uriah Uri Boscovich , and also studied with … Tal . Later he worked as a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Jerusalem (from 1960) and the Tel Aviv Academy of … (of the Alban Berg school) with the Maqamat system (Arabic modal system), and used, among others, …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… and studied their repertoire. He had a good voice and musical hearing, as well as a good memory and perception, … Shabazi, 'elaha-lkol wa ya rabb-ljalali', which is part in Arabic and part in Hebrew (…) They had nice voices. After … Yemenite folklore. Additionally, 'Adaki worked with the musician Menashe Ravina , who transcribed some of the …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… Aliyah. He studied at the Tel Aviv Teachers' College of Music and the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He studied playing the flute with Uri … in 1986. In addition, he studied Hebrew medieval poetry, Arabic and English literature. Avraham Amzallag (Eilam) …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … systems, which is outlined in his work Die Maqamen der arabischen Musik (1913). Idelsohn’s enormous literary … purpose I had to visit the well-known anti-Semite, Prof. Warabazeck, who received me cordially, and due to his …
Israel J. Katz
… of the Sephardic Jews. Katz served as editor of Ethnomusicology (1970–72); for the Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, he was editor (1977–70), coeditor (with … Henry George Farmer and the First International Congress of Arab Music (Cairo 1932) (2015). Source: Shiloah, Amnon. …