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“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Liturgia Judeo-Española as sung by Moshe Levy, a Cairo-born singer. [10] , Similar to many Jews from Cairo in the … The song was also included in a commercial recording by the singer Lior Amadi in the Mizrahi (Eastern) popular music …
Max Lempel
… Israel Radio) where he arranged music and accompanied many singers. He also taught for many years at the Jerusalem …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… in the exceptionally popular A. M. Silbermann and Erwin Singer, Die Haggadah Des Kindes (Berlin: Menorah, 1933), …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an important …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… the upper register. The players improvise by following the singer in his rhythmically flexible cantorial melodic … and octaves apart, while at the same time the tempo of each singer differs slightly, thus creating a heterophonic …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… of Orientalism. Curiously, the musical notation for the singer in the first measure (and for the following measures … from Adrienne Cooper (1946-2011), one of the great Yiddish singers of the past few decades. Cooper, says Sklamberg, in …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… succeeded the great cantor and theoretician Josef Singer, who had been called to Vienna, to cantor at the …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… wrote back in 1984 the internationally renowned Yiddish singer Nechama Lifshitz in a memorial note dedicated to her … partner, the Yiddish performer, narrator, composer and singer Leibu Levin (1914-1983) from Czernowitz (today …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… ceremony as part of the repertoire of Yemenite Jewish women singers. In Yemen, the separation of men and women was … [6] Leah Avraham The performance of 'Qad Zawajunī' is by singer, dancer, artist and educator Leah Avraham in a style … than having one soloist who is answered by the remaining singers, here the women take turns entering into the center …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… the Conservatory of Saint Petersburg [and later on an opera singer in that city]. He composed melodies for two songs … of Hatikvah . Meyer Lyon, a legendary Jewish cantor/opera singer, was in the 1760s-1780s a meshorer (assistant cantor) … ideological gesture so much as a response to the hosts of singers that identified so deeply with it and valued it so …