Vayechulu / Mark Silver. [between 1943 and 1965]

Park Avenue Synagogue (New York, N.Y.)

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Silver, Mark, 1892-1965

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Composed 1918. First performance, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Rochester, N.Y., 1 May 1925, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Peace and war : symphonic poem / Mark Silver. [1918] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 54684626 Also known as "Marcia Funebre." Depicts a Jewish funeral procession in a small Russian town. Composed 1915-1916. First performance May 1920, New Symphony Orchestra, Artur Bodanzky conductor....

Putterman, David

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David J. Putterman was born in 1900 on an immigrant ship en route to New York City. As a boy he was alto soloist in the choirs of cantors Josef Rosenblatt, Gershon Sirota and Zeidel Rovner. During the nineteen-twenties Putterman recorded in Yiddish and Hebrew for the Victor, Brunswick and Vocalion labels. In 1933 both Putterman and Rabbi Milton Steinberg were offered to lead New York's Park Avenue Synagogue. By the time of Rabbi Steinberg's premature death in 1950, they had transformed the congr...