Search results for "Jewish music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- and audiences through the illustrious music for the piano. ... Rubinstein was born to Jewish parents in Vikhvatinets (now in Transnistria ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- chant. Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened or stylized ... When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- conductors of opera and symphonic music in the first half of the ... He was born to a secular Jewish family in the Pest section of Budapest ...5 KB (713 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music. Members of the American ... * Jewish music history * Pastoral care and counseling * Theology ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer ... child, Adolphe Adam preferred to improvise music on his own rather than study ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:12, 15 June 2023
- that is used as a musical instrument for Jewish religious purposes. It is ... , it has played a more restricted role in Jewish religious life. ...13 KB (2,151 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2023
- Century associated largely with the folk music of Eastern Europe, notably ... Ofer Ronen, [https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/content/joseph-michael ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- that is used in performances of classical music, in churches with more formalized ... In traditional and modern Jewish liturgy, "Amen" is often ...6 KB (852 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- Meyerbeer was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf, near Berlin, Germany ... first grand opera. The fusion of dramatic music, melodramatic plot and sumptuous ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 20:19, 14 December 2023
- performer of his own romantic piano music pieces. Though he only lived ... American themes into European classical music, the first Pan-American artist ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
- Orthodox Judaism is the Jewish tradition that adheres to a relatively ... the word 'orthodox' into Jewish discussion. It was the modern ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- rants. King became well-known as a Jewish comedian and satirist. He ... He was the first recipient of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- Moshe ben Maimon (March 30, 1135 – December 13, 1204) was a Jewish ... Maimonides is typically regarded as the greatest of the medieval Jewish ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 05:30, 5 November 2022
- with the imagery of the kabbalah, or Jewish mystical tradition, where ... frail health at a young age. Sachs studied music, literature, and dance during ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- wrote for all economic levels so that his music could touch as many as possible ... father, William, was from a non-practicing Jewish family; his mother, née ...8 KB (1,265 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- On September 29-30, 1941 at least 33,771 Jewish civilians were murdered ... at least two cemeteries, among them a New Jewish Cemetery that had been closed ...9 KB (1,415 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American ... and Mollie (Friedman) Potok (d. 1985), Jewish immigrants from Poland who ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- techniques of different periods of music, such as the Baroque, Romantic ... Schnittke's father was born in Frankfurt to a Jewish family of ...10 KB (1,316 words) - 18:06, 20 July 2023
- mother was born in Sarajevo to a Sephardic Jewish father and a Bosnian Muslim ... also studied composition and began to write music. Zemlinsky had a ...12 KB (1,584 words) - 06:31, 20 July 2023
- Shavuot (or Shavuos; "Weeks") is a Jewish holiday that occurs ... festivals known as the shalosh regalim in Jewish tradition. ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 13:22, 27 January 2023
- particularly for his waltzes, a form of music he was instrumental in popularizing ... orchestra, specializing in light, danceable music including waltzes, quadrilles ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 14:55, 1 August 2022
- them are very few. His attachment to his Jewish background is displayed both ... Alkan was born Charles-Valentin Morhange to a Jewish family in Paris ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging ... Spring, a score that also looked to folk music for its inspiration. He also ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- bassist best known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony ... By establishing the Tanglewood Insitute of Music in 1940 he sought to encourage ...13 KB (1,788 words) - 09:57, 26 January 2023
- religious Orthodox Jews and he attended a Jewish elementary school, then a ... I reached the age of fifteen, I left the Jewish way of life and the study ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- are camps for the performing arts, rock music, magic, computers, children ... Jewish summer camps enjoy a long history in the United States.Jonathan ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 22:22, 26 February 2023
- Philharmonic Orchestra. Later he became music director of the Vienna Philharmonic ... the other hand, was among those in the Jewish music community who came to ...21 KB (3,095 words) - 11:58, 5 May 2023
- #039;s views on race, which threatened his Jewish wife Laura Luzzatto, only ... were largely spent writing essays rather than music. He had no more ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 02:43, 5 November 2022
- twentieth-century American composer and music administrator. In addition ... achieved prominence in the international music scene. Although he was influenced ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 10:50, 12 May 2023
- to the lack of acceptance from the Jewish leaders, but also the extension ... degradation, as swine are not kosher under Jewish law.) There he comes to his ...15 KB (2,442 words) - 07:38, 18 November 2022
- the International Society for Contemporary Music festival in Salzburg, which ... nature of his scores. Today much of his music sounds relatively tame in ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 17:06, 21 November 2022
- as meaning that those who follow the law, Jewish or not, will be able to inherit ... antipathy between Samaritans and the Jewish population, he immediately ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- and Irene Cohen Luzzato who was of Jewish origin from Trieste. LaGuardia ... Congressional district was shifting from a Jewish and Italian-American population ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- youth, writing Catholic poems despite his Jewish background, a follower of ... Ehrenburg a was prominent member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 23:54, 22 January 2023
- new sounds. Known as the "bad boy in music" because of his aesthetic ... Antheil was not Polish, as he claimed, nor Jewish, as others thought. His father ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- and operas. He was also a highly regarded music conductor. ... his father in his youth, writing his first music at the age of six. He continued ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 01:47, 14 December 2022
- writer, allegorist, and a well-known Jewish-American author. He has received ... 26, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York to Russian Jewish immigrants, Max and Bertha ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 15:38, 29 September 2023
- for his knowledge of the orchestral music of German operas, the libretto ... aspects of his art form. On the topic of music and its influence of the ...16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
- quot; which had arisen from the Arab and Jewish commentaries on Aristotle. ... other things, he rejected the idea of "music of the spheres" as ridiculous; ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- records during this golden age of popular music, Ertegun also wrote songs ... Much loved in the music world, Ertegün was honored with several memorial ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- to the exegesis of biblically-related Jewish law. Jewish tradition allows ... are used in the interpretation of Halakha (Jewish law). However, aggadic (non ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... vernacular traditions. African American music and all aspects of African ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- the soul of punk rock created a form of music which more clearly portrayed ... Hills neighborhood of Queens, New York, of Jewish heritage. In his youth, he ...10 KB (1,557 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- or the circumstances of their composition. Jewish and Christian tradition maintains ... psalmos), a lyric ode or a song set to music; a sacred song accompanied ...21 KB (3,276 words) - 00:29, 19 November 2023
- well-off saloon owners of Hungarian Jewish descent. Her mother, Rose ... org/discover/infocus/comedy/radner Jewish Women in Comedy] Jewish Women ...19 KB (2,934 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- that it was "un-German" or "Jewish Bolshevist" in nature ... of Romantic realism Heroic art. Similarly, music was expected to be tonal ...20 KB (2,833 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- Born to a Jewish family in Odessa during a period of social unrest ... Babel had to overcome the quota for Jewish students (10 percent within ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 18:50, 7 March 2024
- (July 7, 1887 – March 28, 1985) was a Jewish painter who was born in Belarus ... of his Belorussian roots as well as his Jewish heritage. ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- and pianists, used a working man's music to influence the kings and ... Gershwin's music exudes the power of spring-like hope. Unlike ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 13:20, 30 December 2022
