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Ray Musiker
… Ray is the fourth generation in a family of Klezmer musicians. As a child, Ray learned to play Klezmer dance music at Jewish weddings. His parents immigrants to America … parents, Ray inhererited a love of Eastern European Jewish music from Russia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. …
Joseph Papernikoff
… was born in the late 1990s (1897 or 1899) in the Russian city of Warsaw, Poland. He was the son of Malka nee … education in the 'cheder', and then studied in a Russian Real Gymnasium. Thanks to his voice, a beautiful alto voice, and his musical hearing, he was accepted at the age of 8 to the …
Israel Adler
… the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and at the Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn in Paris … was directed during the Soviet period by the distinguished Russian Jewish musicologist Moise Beregovski. Located at the …
Yehezkiel Braun
… in Israel , is most known for his often-performed choral music. A 2001 Israel Prize laureate, he is probably the most … composer, with over 120 works published by the Israel Music Institute. His feeling for modality in harmony and … but also some Ashkenazi ones and Israeli folklore (Russian-French influenced) – which he compared with …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … in 1906. In Jerusalem, he began working as a cantor and music teacher at the Hebrew Teacher’s college. Idelsohn was … that I prefer to be with my brothers even in a place like Russian than to live in a free country like England and …
Amnon Shiloah
… of Aliyat Hano’ar in northern Israel where he started his musical studies. In 1947 he enrolled at the Hebrew … as well as Bible, graduating in 1951. He continued his music studies at the Jerusalem Music Academy, majoring in … in five languages (Arabic, English, French, Hebrew and Russian), including twenty books, edited works, recordings, …
James Loeffler
… Ph.D. Columbia University, (2006), Dissertation: 'The Most Musical Nation: Jews, Culture and Nationalism in the Late Russian Empire'; M.A. Columbia University (2000); … DC). Research interests: History of Jewish art music; Russian Jewish composers; music in Yiddish culture; history …
Ivan Lipaev
… from 1924–31. He was also dedicated to the modernization of music pedagogy in the Russian empire and advocated for better conditions for music … gazeta . Full biography at ' Ivan Lipaev ', Wikipedia. … Russian music critic, composer, writer, social advocate, …