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Hirsch Weintraub
… he left to study harmony in Vienna (where he was influenced greatly by Salomon Sulzer's style) and in Berlin. He also …
Albert Weisser
… Petersburg School. He was music director of Temple Israel (Great Neck) until 1960. He taught at Brooklyn College from …
Efraim Yaakov
… to his academic studies, he studied halakha with two of the greatest rabbis of Yemeni Jewry in Israel: Mary Yosef Kapach … of the Hida (R. Chaim Yosef David Azulay), one of the greatest rabbinic authority in Jerusalem at the end of the … himself as documenting a world that has disappeared, with a great deal of justice. A degree of sadness is cast on his …
Akiva Zimmermann
… Over the years, he developed a close relationship with the great cantors in Tel Aviv and around the world. He is … his own books on the subject. He also wrote about the great figures in the world of hazzanut in a dozen of his … best. He was well versed in literature and the press and a great scholar of all Jewish and Israeli beings. He knew many …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… nationalism issue, namely the aspiration to engage with great musical art as a universal edifying ideal, in conflict … expression of the Jewish people and revives before us that great and distant past with the immediate future… so that … to the Middle Rebbe, and it was performed without text with great devekut.” The Hassidim call this melody “The Wailing …
Samuel Naumbourg
… de Rossi’s Ha-Shirim Asher li-Shelomo. Naumbourg went to great lengths to collect all of the parts of Rossi’s score …
David Nowakowsky
… conducting the choir at the Brody Synagogue taught him a great deal about vocal arrangement and choral composition. … Conservatory of Odessa. Odessa was one of the great centers of the Haskalah Movement, and as such, David …
Abraham Goldfaden
… for his plays were originally folk songs, and gained even greater popularity after their use on the stage. Perhaps the …
Albert Elias
… the nay with a Syrian teacher. He played with some of the greatest stars of Iraqi music, including Nazem al-Ghazali, … the more widespread Egyptian style of tarab music, which he greatly enjoyed. He also studied law for two years, but had …
Joseph Achron
… Achron, now a student of Professor Isidor Lotto, gave with great success concerts in various cities of the European … later the Third Violin Concerto was commissioned by the great violinist). In America , Achron still continued to … in Palestine . The heavy economic conditions caused by the Great Depression forced him to move to the West coast in …