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Abraham Ellstein
… Juilliard School, and later worked as an accompanist for artists like Molly Picon , Mischa Mischakoff, Michel … active on the radio and broadcasted programs about Yiddish music and Synagogue music. As a composer, he wrote 33 scores for Yiddish musical …
Max Leibowitz
… of other Romanian-born klezmer bandleaders and recording artists in the New York City area that included Abe Schwartz , Joseph Moskowitz , Abe Katzman, and Milu Lemisch (in …
Herman Wohl
… Archive) click here . … Composer of Yiddish theater music … Composers … 0 … Composer … Yiddish … Theater … Music … Herman Wohl …
Anshel Schorr
… and impressive corpus, two works should be mentioned in particular: the operetta Shir Hashirim ( 1911) and the song … Mayn yidishe meydele . The operetta Shir Hashirim , with music composed by Joseph Rumshinsky, was premiered at the … hit song were subsequently released by many leading Yiddish artists, including Jan Peerce , Jacob Sandler , and The …
Moshe Nathanson
… Nathanson immigrated to Canada, where he studied Law and Music at McGill University. Mid-degree, Nathanson decided to transfer to the Institute of Musical Art in New York (now the Julliard School of Music). In 1924, … Passover 1931, with support from sponsor Horowitz-Margarten Matzoh company. Many of the songs aired on the program …
Louis Gilrod
… Click Here … Composer & lyricist of Yiddish theater music … 0 … Louis Gilrod …
Harry Von Tilzer
… Gummblinksy), was born in Detroit in 1872. His passion for music became evident at an early age, and at fourteen he … at this point that he adopted the stage name Von Tilzer, an artistic embellishment of his mother’s maiden name Tilzer. … first to position of staff songwriter and then junior partner. Tilzer's next big hit came in 1900 with 'A Bird in A …
Jerome Kern
… nine children, of which only three survived. Kern began his musical career under the tutelage of his mother, who was a … Kern enrolled at the Normal College in New York to study music education. He also attended classes at the New York … nearly two million copies. From 1915 to 1919, Kern and partner Guy Bolton wrote music for a series of shows at …
Dave Tarras
… to New York in 1921. He was one of the most famous Klezmer musicians of the 20th century. Additional biography, at National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) website, click here . Obituary in the New York … … Klezmer clarinetist … Clarinet … Clarinetist … Klezmer … Musician … Dave Tarras …
Jennie Goldstein
… composers, such as Molly Picon , Isador Lillian, Abe Schwartz , and Abe Ellstein . In 1938, Goldstein made her film … to female Yiddish theater performers, produced as part of Joel Rubin and Rita Ottens' Jewish Music Series for Wergo. Click here for Goldstein's …