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Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… by Ascap Today as, 'a major force in today's liturgical music.' Issachar Miron has made a name for himself … established he was named the National Deputy Director of Music for Israel's Ministry of Education and Culture. He … hit 'Tzena Tzena' with Hebrew words by Yehiel Hagiz, and English words by Gordon Jenkins. He composed 'Tzena Tzena' …
Elio Piattelli
… from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici … the texts into Italian and commented them in Italian and English. He dedicated his works “to the unknown authors of … European languages (many still remember him as a teacher of English) were crucial in this context. He combined inspiring …
Nahum Heiman
… has won the right to become one of the priests of Hebrew music.' It is not for nothing that Natan Yonatan calls Nahum … over it. This song was translated as well, this time to English, by the English singer David Bowie when he was a young cleaning …
Ehud Manor
… First Channel', is a virtuoso translator of theater and musical plays. He has instilled in our bloodstream dozens of … original name was Weiner. As a student of psychology and English in the early 1960s, he edited radio programs on 'Gal … songs he sang in youth movements he listened to American music on records he received from his uncle from the USA, so …
Paul Ben-Haim
… The most prolific of the founding fathers of Israeli music (excluding, perhaps , Marc Lavry ), he wrote over 250 … his colleague Peter Gradenwitz (his publisher, well-known musicologist). Among Ben-Haim’s other notable works are his … biography by Jehoash Hirshberg (there are Hebrew and English editions) was the first written about an Israeli …
Yetta Zwerling
… children's roles in variety theatre and soon thereafter in English vaudeville, where she acted for eight years. She … in Yiddish vaudeville. Then she acted for four years in musical comedy under the leadership of Leon Errol, and then … In 1936 she guest-starred in Mexico. She also performed on English radio. From time to time she performed on the …
Zalmen Mlotek
… Zalmen Mlotek is an American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer, and the Artistic … recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music and a leading figure in the Jewish theatre and concert … revive Yiddish classics, instituted bi-lingual simultaneous English and Russian supertitles at all performances and …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a … importance of Cantor Salomon in the writings of cantors and musicologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. … Weintraub’s biography of his father, together with an English translation, a commentary, the original German text …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960's, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. … compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of liturgical and …
Jacob Gilboa
… Starting in 1944 he studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music with Josef Tal and Paul Ben-Haim . His participation in the Courses for New Music in Cologne in 1963 and 1964 under Karlheinz …