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Joel Walbe
… with music arrived when he joined a mandolin and balalaika folk music band. This restrictive environment, together with … he published his first song, 'Shir Hashtil.' Many of his songs were intended to fit the needs of settling Zionists in … this kind were art songs, as opposed to his earlier Israeli folksongs. He proceeded to compose chamber music, …
Zalmen Mlotek
… and the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF), the longest continuous running Yiddish … He is an internationally recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music and a leading figure in the Jewish … Folksbiene … Composers … Accompaniment … Composer … Yiddish songs … Yiddish Theater … Pianist … Arranger … Zalmen Mlotek …
Haim Effendi
… not become a full-time cantor who also happened to record songs in Ladino, as Isaac Algazi did. He moved into what … for example, by him being mentioned as a hero in a folktale (no. 5324 at the Israel Folktale Archive, University of Haifa, recorded in 1963 from …
Emanuel Amiran (Pougatchov)
… and composer. His compositions include over 600 Hebrew folksongs, incidental music for theater and cinema, music for …
Ram Da-Oz
… melodies for his works. He has also written Israeli folksongs. He plays an important role in the musical life of … MI, 1988. … Israeli composer … Israeli … Art Music … Folksong … Haifa … Ram Da-Oz …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… career began in the 1960's, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer … of liturgical and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs … … Songwriter … Jewish … North America … Children's Songs … Folk music … Liturgy … Youth … Youth movement … Deborah Lynn …
Salah El Kuweiti
… Iraq, their names were intentionally forgotten, and their songs were titled 'folksongs' or ascribed to other musicians. In Israel, they …
Nehama Lifshitz
… from the U.S.S.R. to Israel in the sixties and seventies. … Folksinger of Hebrew and Yiddish songs … 10623 … Singer … Yiddish … Hebrew … Folksong … Nehama Lifshitz … מיכאל לוקין …
Noam Sheriff
… teacher Ben-Haim , range between light classical, based on folk tunes (early in his career) through-composed pieces … Akeda (The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1997); Concertos: Song of Songs (flute, 1981), Violin (1986), “ Scarlattina ” (piano, …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… Jews: 'He committed himself to his expertise, gathering the folk eastern melodies, which included almost forgotten … and Mr. M. S. Gashuri a big collection of about 50 of these songs and melodies, transcribed in printed musical notation. … that he had great influence on the formation of the Hebrew folksong (zemer ivri) during its formation. This …