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Kurt Weill
… to the USA. In the USA he was influenced by popular music and jazz, he met several of the outstanding figures of the Broadway stage and began to write musicals that enjoyed tremendous popularity. Weill held the … … German Jews … Composer … USA … American composers … Theater music … Jewish music … Hatikva (The Hope, Israel's …
Aaron Copland
… theory and composition with Rubin Goldmark, continuing his musical education with Goldmark, Victor Wittgenstein and … studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Fontainebleau School of Music in Paris. During his time in Paris, Copland traveled … Dance Symphony (1929) , Short Symphony (1933) , Music for Theater (1925) and Piano Variations (1930) were strongly …
Abraham Goldfaden
… Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro Konstantinov, Ukraine. In order … his songs, as well as other popular Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater pieces created movement to establish a professional …
Theodor Bikel
… a singer and as an actor, Bikel performed in many Broadway Theater productions, as well as in television shows and in … singer & actor … Song … Singer … Actor … Broadway … Theater … Television … Movies … Folk … Songs … Folksong … …
Raffi Ben-Moshe
… kibbutz Iftah in the Galilee in 1949. B.A. Rubin Academy of Music, Tel-Aviv (1953). Composer, arranger and musical director of theater and cinema. M.A. thesis, Tel-Aviv University. … music. … 475 … Composer, arranger and musical director of theater and cinema. Researcher of Hassidic music … Ashkenazi …
Michael Lukin
… The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore , Musica Judaica , Yuval , Musik Traditionen , Jerusalem … explore Yiddish folk songs and Hasidic nigunim through ethnomusicological, folkloristic, and historical lenses. He has … traditional culture, such as Yiddish carnivalesque, folk theater melodies, cantorial improvisation, and the legacy of …
Yizhak Edel
… received a Jewish education, but he was also exposed to music while participating in singing gatherings hosted by … His grandfather did not approve of Edel's new path as a musician, but he ultimately gave in. Upon his grandfather’s … by the communist regime, especially in the case of Habimah Theater. He also became acquainted with the works of the …
Ya'akov Orland
… Homeland and Mother, " in 1930. This song was later set to music by David Zehavi, a member of Kibbutz Naan and the … lasting until Alterman's death. In 1933, he began studying theater informally and organized readings of English poetry, … 1936 and 1939, Orland resided in England, where he pursued theater studies at the Royal Academy of Drama in London. …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … violin lessons with his father. Achron continued his formal musical education at St. Petersburg Conservatory where he … and performing, and began to write music for the Yiddish Theater. In 1932 he was commissioned to compose Evening …
Marc Lavry
… Marc Lavry was born in Riga , Latvia and received his formal musical education at the Riga and Leipzig conservatories … oratorios, chamber and orchestral works, popular songs, and theater music. Perhaps his most well known piece, one which … … Art … Music … Riga … Palestine … Orchestra … Opera … Theater … Mediterranean … Style … Marc Lavry …