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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… a mother, he became acquainted with a vast array of popular and traditional Yiddish songs, as well as, later on, … developed parallel in Israel, one academic and one popularizing. They were both engaged in the national … rigor and institutional belonging. Geshuri’s didactical and popularizing approach to writing about Jewish music is laid …
Sigmund Schlesinger
… Schlesinger collaborated with his brother, Jacob, on a popular series of pieces for the piano which was titled …
David Nowakowsky
… His musical arrangment of the poem was later replaced by a popular folk tune, which is the melody for the National …
Kurt Weill
… he emigrated to the USA. In the USA he was influenced by popular music and jazz, he met several of the outstanding … stage and began to write musicals that enjoyed tremendous popularity. Weill held the ideal of writing music that …
Aaron Copland
… Man and A Lincoln Portrait . These pieces gained wide popularity, strengthening his identity as a composer of …
Abraham Goldfaden
… dialogue to accompany his songs, as well as other popular Jewish and secular music. The initial performances … melodies, Jewish folksongs, Eastern European folk and popular music, and Italian and French opera arias. Many of … plays were originally folk songs, and gained even greater popularity after their use on the stage. Perhaps the best …
Ya'akov Orland
… this period, " Hatender Nose a" ("The Pickup Truck"), was popularized by singer Shoshana Damari . His songs "Ets …
Yedidyah Admon
… in 1927 he published his first songs, among them the popular ' Gamal Gamali' (Camel Drivers Song). Admon was a …
Samuel Alman
… Alman also wrote and published several arrangements of popular Yiddish folk songs. … Composer of Synagogue and …
Marc Lavry
… a large corpus of oratorios, chamber and orchestral works, popular songs, and theater music. Perhaps his most well …