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Sholom Secunda
1894–1974
Born in the Ukraine, Sholom Secunda immigrated to America in 1907. In addition to composing a considerable body of art and liturgical music, he became one of Second Avenue's "big four" composers.
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November 6th, 2012
Allusions to Hebrew or Yiddish song are most frequently assumed to connote popular, folk, folklike, commercial, pedagogic, or theatrical genres and, in the case of Hebrew, kibbutz, ḥalutz (pioneer), aliya, ...>
September 4th, 2012
People used to say that the best translation of the Hebrew words [of the liturgy] was [Hazzan] Minkowski’s interpretation of them in his singing style.
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The intimacy of the human and instrumental voices in the music of this volume resides in great measure in its offerings of conventionally as well as experimentally structured chamber music ...>
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"Classical" Concert Music of American Jewish Experience: The Greatest Surprise?
Of the categories of music contained in the Milken Archive, none is likely, by virtue of its very existence as well as its ...>
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In the nearly four-thousand-year-old vineyard of Jewish history, the Yiddish theatrical stage is of relatively recent vintage. Apart from the purimspiel tradition, which probably dates to the medieval period in ...>
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On November 13, 2006, the Milken Archive celebrated the completion of its 50-CD recording series with a special concert held at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles: One People, ...>
September 1st, 2010
There is a popular myth that when the Andrews Sisters released their hugely successful recording of Sholom Secunda's Bay mir bistu sheyn in 1938, the composer's mother was so distraught, ...>
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