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The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Late Manifestation of the Musical Trope
Western Ashkenazi cantors have developed a new soloist style of liturgically important…
The mystical strain in Jewish liturgical music
Drawing on evidence from the Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Yemenite traditions, and…
Paul Muni (Weisenfreund)
Paul Muni was born in Lemberg, Austria in 1895. Muni's parents, both actors in a…
Canta, gallico, canta (Los deseos del gallo)
This song contains two series of parallel strophes. One series (first, second, and fifth…
Avraham Daus
Israeli composer. Born in Berlin. Worked in Germany as an opera conductor. Immigrated to…
Alexander Krein's Kaddish, op.23,manuscript by the Soviet Jewish coposer, lost since the Nazi era.
Aleksander Krejn (1883-1951), a founder of the Jewish national school in Russia, wrote “…
Sara Levi-Tanai
Sara Levi-Tanai was an Israeli choreographer, playwright, and lyricist renowned for her…
Con grande vergüenza (La despedida de la novia + Consejos a la recién casada)
This song stages a dialogue between the newly-wedded bride and her mother. At the time…
Uzi Hitman
Uzi Hitman was born in Tel Aviv on June 9th, 1952, and passed away on October 17th 2004…
Alberto Hemsi
Born in Kasaba, Turkey. Studied music in Izmir, and later in Milan. Worked as musical…