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Mordekhai Zeira

… feeling of the new Israeli musical idiom, based on modes and syncopation, to which he was introduced during his …

… of the composer Matitiyahu Shalem and the dancer Tirza Hodes. He began playing in Hodes's folk dancing classes, but instead of playing the tunes regularly, he would improvise. Hodes didn't like it, and one day, after a few instances …

Sigmund Mogulesko

… theater. In 1880 Mogulesko formed a theater troupe in Odessa, and in 1881 published a collection of verse, …

Alexander Olshanetsky

… Alexander Olshanetsky was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He played with the Odessa Opera orchestra and toured Russia and Siberia, and …

Harry Kandel

… Ziggy Elman as 'Fralich in Swing'. Kandel studied at the Odessa Conservatory of Music and served in army band of the …

Haim Effendi

… For example, in an interview with Estrella Mayo from Rhodes by Samuel G. Armistead on February 7, 1958, she says: …

Joshua (Osias) Abrass

… a child prodigy, and studied with Bezalel Schulsinger in Odessa. Joshua officiated as a cantor in Tarnopol … (1840-1842) and in Lvov (1842-1858), and as chief cantor in Odessa (1858-1884). He published one work, Simrat Joh (ca. … Minkowski relates the story of the “cantors’ battle” in Odessa between Joshua Abrass and Jacob Bachman , during …

Jacob Bachman

… later established his reputation in Lemberg (1868-1864), Odessa (1884-1885) and Budapest (1885-1905), where he … Minkowski relates the story of the “cantors’ battle” in Odessa between Joshua Abrass and Jacob Bachman, in which the Jewish community in Odessa was divided into two camps: the Pitsists (plural of …

Alexander Uria Boscovich

… with Mediterranean and specifically Mizrahi elements—modes, forms, textures, rhythms, and orchestration such as … and certain percussions. Among the famous pieces of his modest oeuvre are his influential Semitic Suite (piano; also …