[Synagogue music collection, Miscellaneous : Park Avenue Synagogue, New York, N.Y. / collected by Cantor David J. Putterman]. [between 1926 and 1956]

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

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Ellstein, Abraham, 1907-1963

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Weinberg, Jacob, 1879-1956

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Lind, Joshua

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Nadel, Arno

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Born in Vilna on October 3, 1878, Arno Nadel emigrated to Germany in 1890 and settled in Berlin in 1895. In 1916, he became choir director of the Jewish community of Berlin. He is best known for his work as a musicologist, and for his transcriptions and adaptations of Jewish traditional and liturgical music. He also worked as a poet and an artist. He was killed in Auschwitz in 1943. From the guide to the Arno Nadel Collection, 1911-1973, (Leo Baeck Institute Archives) ...

Schalit, Heinrich, 1886-1976

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Heinrich Schalit was born in Vienna on January 2, 1886. His vision seriously impaired by childhood illness, Schalit studied music at Vienna's Jewish Institute for the Blind. At Vienna's Konservatorium für Musik und darstellende Kunst, he studied piano with Theodor Leschetizky and musical composition with Robert Fuchs. Schalit graduated from the Konservatorium in 1906 with a "superior" rating, that year winning the Austrian State Prize for Composition Students. He relocated to Munich in 1907. Hi...

Wohlberg, Max

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Werner, Eric, 1901-1988

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Musicologist, composer. From the description of Reminiscences of Eric Werner : oral history, 1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122587049 Musicologist, of Cincinnati, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1945-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70938521 ...

Low, Leo, 1878-1962.

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Casseres, Abraham

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Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959

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Composer, violinist, conductor, and photographer Ernest Bloch was born on July 24, 1880, in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1894 he began the study of music theory and composition with Emile Jacques-Dalcroze at the Geneva Conservatory of Music, who advised him to continue violin instruction under Louis Etienne-Reyer at the same institution. He studied violin under Franz Schörg of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Belgium, in 1896, and composition in Frankfurt under Ivan Knorr from 1899 to 1901, whereupo...

Chajes, Julius, 1910-1985

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Composed 1926. First performance Vienna, 20 February 1927. First performance U.S.A.: 6/22/41 Detroit, Center Symphony Orchestra, Chajes conductor, Louise Hoffman Violoncello.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Melodie / Julius Chajes. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 42676385 Originally composed for organ, 1933. First performance Jerusalem, 13 July 1935, Jerusalem CHamber Orchestra, Karl Saloman conductor. First U.S. performance De...

Ziffrin, Marilyn J., 1926-

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Kosakoff, R. (Reuven)

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Commissioned by the Workmen's Circle of New York. Composed 1952. First performance at a Workmen's Circle Concert, New York, 1952, Lazar Weiner conductor. Movement I dedicated to Lazar Weiner, Movement II to Israel Rabinovitch.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Three moods : based on Hebrew cantillations / by Reuven Kosakoff. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52587617 ...

Helfman, Max

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Biography/History Saida Gerrard: b. April 9, 1923, Toronto, Canada. d. May 4, 2005, Los Angeles, California. Saida Gerrard was a performer, choreographer, student and teacher of modern dance. She grew up in Toronto, Canada in a family of Russian Jewish immigrants. Her parents were amateur musicians who exposed her to music and dance at an early age. As a child, she studied music and dance at the Hambourg Conservatory of Music in T...

Minkowski, Pinchas, 1859-1924.

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Binder, A. W.

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Second movement originally composed for piano, 1932; entire suite composed 1936-38.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Three Palestinian pioneer pictures : for large orchestra / A.W. Binder. 1937-1938. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 43265649 Composed 1938. First performance Town Hall, New York by the Moritz Chamber Orchestra, Nov. 22, 1938, Edvard Moritz conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concertan...

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...

Baldwin, Russell E.

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