… was born in Salonika in 1913, the son of a distinguished teacher and a talented milliner. The oldest of four children, he showed musical talent at a young age. After completing secondary … while simultaneously taking violin lessons at the Lycée Musicale. Upon finishing that program, he moved to Paris, …

… Baghdad Elias studied law as well as the nay with a Syrian teacher. He played with some of the greatest stars of Iraqi music, including Nazem al-Ghazali, Salima Morad, Muhammed … Iraqi maqam and the more widespread Egyptian style of tarab music, which he greatly enjoyed. He also studied law for two …

… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … feeding himself. Finally, he ended up becoming a shohet , teacher and prayer leader in Kurland, the El Dorado of … Rabinovitz and he took upon himself to teach me the music theory and voice training. Yiska’s memoire: [3a] He …

… where he was introduced to a recorder and discovered his musical talent. Over time he developed a great skill on the … kibbutz, he traveled one day a week to Tel Aviv to study music: piano, oboe, harmony, and later on, a one-week course … Naomi and Avner would be sent to to study to become music teachers. Upon graduation, he began teaching music at the …

… German-speaking Jewish community. Mahler's formal musical education began in 1875 at the Conservatory of Music in Vienna where he studied piano with teacher Julius Epstein, and harmony and composition with …

… Ukraine) into a Hasidic family with many rabbis. He studied music in Vienna with cantors and teachers of singing and composition, including Cantor Yehuda … in 1961 and joined the faculty of the School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of …

… Even if you are mildly interested in Jewish music, you cannot avoid Salamone Rossi and his … poems has not ceased to captivate the imagination of modern musicians, scholars and their audiences. As time passed, … reviewed the trailblazing biography of Rossi by his admired teacher Prof. Don Harrán z”l . Harrán dedicated a …

… Italy. She is a full professor of composition at the Music Department in Bar-Ilan University.  Betty Olivero is a … was awarded the  Koussevitzky Award  by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and the Library of Congress, Washington … Sadai and Leon Shidlowsky, and at Yale University where her teachers included Jacob Druckman and Bernard Rands. In 1982 …

… addition to ‘Lekhah Dodi.’ Even more important for the main musical argument of this Song of the Month (see below), the … with corrections apparently by Dato himself, includes a musical reference in its title, “Benigun anshei emunah’ i.e. … of this poem all but disappeared from the Italian Jewish musical memory. Yet, we find some vague traces of its …