… . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of five he began violin lessons with his father. Achron … best marked by one of his earliest and most famous works, A Hebrew Melody (1911).  In 1913 he moved to Russia to take a … from traditional Biblical cantillation (in the Lithuanian pronunciation accustomed to him) that he believed to be the …

… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in America – A. … The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and collections from the … letters in an inconsistent mix of Ashkenazic and Sephardic pronunciations. None of the songs have attributions for …

… I am still living the life of those times…  Theodore Bikel    On October 2, 2014, … him if the interview should be carried out in English or Hebrew. With a distinctive “sabra” accent and in his … another characteristic of Bikel’s delivery, his noticeable pronunciation of the Hebrew language, especially of the …