… Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson province, to parents … of the Bug River on the Black Sea. Abraham Secunda and his sons made their living as ironworkers, supporting … befriended the Navy Bandleader and was assigned the task of orchestrating the weekly military band shows. Sholom left …

… Tish-nigunim in the Post-vernacular Era This study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European landscape: Hasidic tish-nigunim. Nigunim (Yiddish nign , from … sounds from urban repertoires, such as opera excerpts, orchestral “light” repertoire, music for domestic …