Women Composers of the Milken Archive
This March, in celebration of Women's History Month, we are proud to spotlight the women artists in our collection and their impact on Jewish Music in America, beginning with fourteen composers.
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REDISCOVER Ralph Shapey: Radical Traditionalist
If composer Ralph Shapey (1921–2002) was anything, he was a fighter—a disposition that may have been instilled in him at birth. Two weeks after he was born, he contracted double pneumonia and was not expected to live.
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Great Songs of the American Yiddish Theater, Part 1: Abraham Ellstein
Abraham Ellstein (1907–1963) was born on New York’s Lower East Side in 1907. Serving as a boy chorister in local synagogues exposed him early on to the intricacies of cantorial art, or hazzanut. He received his early musical training at the Third Street Settlement House and sang in the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus.
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