Search results for "Jewish music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- 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 (2,270 words) - 16:35, 20 May 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
- 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
- vocalists in twentieth century popular music. while lodging with a sympathetic immigrant Jewish family. During these years ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 02:51, 4 November 2022
- Jascha Heifetz (February 2, 1901 – December 10, 1987) was a Jewish ... Heifetz was born to Jewish parents in Vilnius, Lithuania, then part ...17 KB (2,485 words) - 09:58, 1 April 2024
- in Berdichev, Ukraine into an emancipated Jewish family, he did not receive ... the text to conceal the specifically anti-Jewish character of the atrocities ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 16:18, 14 November 2022
- from other songs is the fact that the music is far less important than ... Bards were rarely permitted to record their music, given the political nature ...11 KB (1,802 words) - 08:06, 20 September 2023
- It has inspired numerous works of art, music, and drama. ... against or resisted. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia the opening ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- as symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music, and chamber music. Born into a well-to-do Jewish family who later converted to Christianity ...31 KB (4,782 words) - 17:14, 26 March 2024
- of the time, growing up in a middle class Jewish family, with siblings and ... backgrounds (Wanda was Catholic, Horowitz Jewish) was not an issue, since ...22 KB (3,176 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- Primo Levi (July 31, 1919 – April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian ... Levi was born in Turin in 1919 into a liberal Jewish family. In 1934 ...16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- George Steiner was born in 1929 in Paris, France to Jewish Viennese ... the Nazis occupied Paris, and of the many Jewish children in Steiner's ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- Apart from the libretto for the opera Maximilien Kolbe (music by Dominique ... * Le Maître (1962) Music by Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- his own life to save the lives of two Jewish children in 1938. ... Hitler's Germany, while Baer, who was Jewish, displayed an embroidered ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- Zukofsky was born in New York to Lithuanian Jewish parents and grew ... through sonnets to free verse and the music of Bach. Section 12, which ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:11, 4 November 2022
- Hesse.] Retrieved August 25, 2007. and the Jewish Museum of New York (2006). challenge. Arthur Danto, writing of the Jewish Museum's 2006 retrospective ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 04:48, 23 March 2024
- Wolfgang in particular developed a love of classical music. ... his training in science with his love of music.Robert Sherrill, "Natural ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 23:20, 17 May 2023
- War I. He cause a major controversy in the music world in 1935 when he revealed ... Kreisler was born in Vienna to a Jewish father and a Roman Catholic ...12 KB (1,707 words) - 07:05, 15 April 2024
- 11, 1864 - May 5, 1921), was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist ... Fried was born in Vienna to a Jewish family. At the age of 15, he ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- Otto Weininger was born the son of the Jewish goldsmith, Leopold Weininger ... who has a genius for, say, mathematics, or music, but there is only the universal ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- Born William Samuel Rosenberg to a Jewish family in New York City ... In June 1934, he opened The Billy Rose Music Hall at 52nd and Broadway ...9 KB (1,337 words) - 17:39, 31 October 2023
- of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh). According to Jewish tradition, the Torah was ... the entire spectrum of authoritative Jewish religious teachings throughout ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- difficulties of reconciling traditional Jewish culture with modernity. The ... Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at ...23 KB (3,273 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
