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… come to assume choirmaster duties there. Shlisky’s early years in Toronto were not easy. The cantor, who Shlisky … had emigrated to Toronto. In about 1910, at only 16 or 17 years of age, Shlisky married Minnie Rinzler, a … (TCM), run by her friend Dr. Augustus S. Vogt. During his years at the TCM, Shlisky either continued to perform or …

… ' Layla Bekna'an ' being the most famous. In his fruitful years, his songs were printed in songsters, but after his …

… books to memory – a dramatic turnaround from his earlier years when he could only remember parts of songs – that …

… State of Israel to its outstanding citizens. In the last years of his life, Hajdu relentlessly performed, and taught …

… short by his draft into the Russian Army in 1916. In the years after World War I, Achron toured extensively as a … was granted the Mikhail Palace Prize. The following three years, he spent mostly in Berlin and gave concerts in … St. Petersburg “Society of Jewish Folk Music” founded three years earlier by Joel Engel, Solomon Rosowsky, Michail …

Moshe Wilensky was born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland. During World War I, his family…

… the headiness of this active and (now) fabled era: in forty years of analyzing the melodic lines of two clarinetists, in … Although I have valued Rubin as a colleague for over twenty years, and have never picked up a clarinet, his book gave me …

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…