The Milken Archive of Jewish Music is a collection of material about the history of Jewish Music

Jewish music

Jewish music is the music and melodies of the Jewish People which have evolved over time throughout the long course of Jewish History. In some instances Jewish Music is of a religious nature, spiritual songs and refrains are common in Jewish Services throughout the world, while other times, it is...

 in the United States. It contains roughly 700 recorded musical works, 800 hours of oral histories, 50,000 photographs and historical documents, an extensive collection of program notes and essays, and thousands of hours of video footage documenting recording sessions, interviews, and live performances.

History

The Archive was founded in 1990 by businessman Lowell Milken

Lowell Milken

Lowell Milken is co-founder of Knowledge Universe, the largest early childhood education provider in the world, founder of the TAP System for Teacher and Student Advancement, co-founder and chairman of the Milken Family Foundation, and a former senior vice president in the junk bond trading...

, with the stated mission to "document, preserve, and disseminate the vast body of music that pertains to the American Jewish experience." It was originally established as the Milken Family Archive of 20th Century American Jewish Music, with composer Michael Isaacson

Michael Isaacson

Michael Isaacson is an influential composer of Jewish synagogue music, as well as one of the originators of the Jewish Camp Song movement...

 as its Artistic Director In 1993, Neil W. Levin of the Jewish Theological Seminary became the Artistic Director and the Archive became known as the Milken Archive of American Jewish music. Between 2003 and 2006, it released a series of 50 CDs on the Naxos label, which have sold nearly 300,000 copies. In 2005, Producer David Frost

David Frost

Sir David Frost is a British broadcaster.David Frost may also refer to:*David Frost , South African golfer*David Frost , classical record producer*David Frost *Dave Frost, baseball pitcher...

 was awarded the Grammy award for Producer of the Year, Classical, for five of the albums in this series. At present, the Archive's website serves as the primary vehicle for the Archive’s music, and the access point for its other media. The material is organized into 20 thematic groups.

Recent Media Coverage

Milken Archive footage of Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck

David Warren "Dave" Brubeck is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills...

 was featured in the documentary "Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way" directed by Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...

 that aired on December 6, 2010 on Turner Classic Movies.
In September 2010, Milken Archive Artistic Director Neil Levin was featured on televisions stations across the United States in the documentary 18 Voices Sing Kol Nidre discussing the Kol Nidre

Kol Nidre

Kol Nidre is an Aramaic declaration recited in the synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on every Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement...

, a declaration recited or sung in the synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on every Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur , also known as Day of Atonement, is the holiest and most solemn day of the year for the Jews. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jews traditionally observe this holy day with a 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue...

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On May 26th 2010, the NPR program “All Things Considered” featured Milken Archive music in its broadcast about clarinetist David Krakauer

David Krakauer

David Krakauer is an American clarinetist. He is a graduate of the High School of Music & Art, class of 1974. He is mostly known for his klezmer compositions. He became involved with klezmer music in the late 1980s while working as a classical musician, joining The Klezmatics...

, “Abraham Inc.: Klezmer with a funky hip hop beat.”

20 Volumes

The Milken Archive's collection is organized according to the following 20 thematic groups, known as "volumes":

1. Jewish Voices in the New World: The Song of Prayer in Colonial and 19th-Century America
2. A Garden Eastward: Sephardi and Near Eastern Inspiration
3. Seder T'fillot: Traditional and Contemporary Synagogue Services
4. Cycle of Life in Synagogue and Home: Prayers and Celebrations Throughout the Jewish Year
5. The Classical Klezmer: Rebirth of a Folk Tradition
6. Echoes of Ecstasy: Hassidic Inspiration
7. Masterworks of Prayer: Art in Worship
8. Sing Unto Zion! In Praise of a Jewish National Home
9. The Art of Jewish Song: Yiddish and Hebrew
10. Intimate Voices: Solo and Ensemble Music of Jewish Spirit
11. Symphonic Visions: Orchestral Works of Jewish Spirit
12. Legends of Toil and Celebration: Songs of Jewish Solidarity, Social Awareness, and Jewish Americana
13. Great Songs of the American Yiddish Stage: Yiddish Theater, Vaudeville, Radio, and Film
14. Golden Voices in the Golden Land: The Great Age of Cantorial Art in America
15. Swing His Praises: Jazz, Blues, and Rock in the Service of God
16. Heroes and Heroines: Jewish Opera
17. Odes and Epics: Dramatic Music of Jewish Experience
18. Psalms and Canticles: Jewish Choral Art in America
19. Out of the Whirlwind: Musical Reflections of the Holocaust
20. L'dor vador: A Celebration of Children’s Voices

Composers

The Milken Archive has recorded or licensed music by the following composers:

A - F	G - L	M - R	S - Z
Joseph Achron Joseph Achron Joseph Yulyevich Achron, also seen as Akhron was a Russian composer and violinist of Jewish origin, settled in USA. His preoccupation with Jewish elements and his desire to develop a 'Jewish' harmonic and contrapuntal idiom, underscored and informed much of his work...	Moshe Ganchoff	Will Macfarlane	Lazare Saminsky Lazare Saminsky Lazare Saminsky, born Lazar Iosifovich Saminsky, was a performer, conductor and composer, especially of Jewish music.-Life:...
Hugo Adler	Mordechai Gebirtig Mordechai Gebirtig Mordechai Gebirtig, born Mordecai Bertig was an influential Yiddish poet and songwriter.- S'brent :One of Gebirtig's best-known songs is "S'brent" , written in 1938 in response to the 1936 pogrom of Jews in the shtetl of Przytyk. Gebirtig had hoped its message, “Don't stand there, brothers, douse...	Meyer Machtenberg	Mordecai Sandberg Mordecai Sandberg Mordecai Sandberg was a composer and physician. He was born in Hârlău, a town in Moldavia, Romania on February 4, 1897. He died in Toronto, Canada on December 28, 1973...
Samuel Adler Samuel Adler Samuel Adler may refer to:*Samuel Adler , Reform rabbi*Samuel Adler , composer and conductor...	Michl Gelbart	Samuel Malavsky	Jacob Sandler
Bruce Adolphe Bruce Adolphe Bruce Adolphe is a U.S. composer and music scholar, the author of several books on music, and pianist. His current positions include Resident Lecturer and Director of Family Concerts of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and founder and creative director of The Learning Maestros,...	Miriam Gideon Miriam Gideon Miriam Gideon was an American composer.-Life:She studied organ with her uncle Henry Gideon and piano with Felix Fox. She also studied with Martin Bernstein, Marion Bauer, Charles Haubiel, and Jacques Pillois...	Ursula Mamlok Ursula Mamlok Ursula Mamlok is a German-born, American composer and teacher.-Education and influences:Mamlok was born as Ursula Meyer in Berlin, Germany and studied piano and composition with Professor Gustav Ernest and Emily Weissgerber until her family fled Nazi Germany following the nationwide pogrom in 1938...	Simon Sargon Simon Sargon Simon Sargon is an American composer, pianist, and music educator of Israeli and Indian descent. He studied at Brandeis University and at the Juilliard School under Sergius Kagen. For many years, Sargon was Jennie Tourel's accompanist, performing with her in concerts and master classes across the...
Aminadav Aloni	Louis Gilrod	Mana-Zucca	Nicholas Saslavsky
Israel Alter	Leib Glantz Leib Glantz Leib Glantz was a Russian-born lyrical tenor cantor , Composer, Musicologist of Jewish music, Writer, Educator and Zionist leader.He was born in 1898 in Kiev, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. His father and both grandfathers were important cantors with Chassidic backgrounds...	Jakov Medvedieff	Heinrich Schalit
David Amram David Amram David Amram is an American composer, musician, conductor, and writer. As a classical composer and performer, his integration of jazz , ethnic and folk music has led him to work with the likes of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Willie Nelson, Langston...	Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...	Henry Mendes	Walter Scharf Walter Scharf Walter Scharf was an American film composer.Born in New York, he was the son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie Zwerling...
Solomon Ancis	Abraham Goldfaden Abraham Goldfaden Abraham Goldfaden ; was an Russian-born Jewish poet, playwright, stage director and actor in the languages Yiddish and Hebrew, author of some 40 plays.Goldfaden is considered the father of the Jewish modern theatre.In 1876 he founded in...	David Meyerowitz	David Schiff
Daniel Asia Daniel Asia Daniel Asia is an American composer.Daniel Asia was born in Seattle, Washington, in the United States of America. He received a B.A. degree from Hampshire College and a M.M. from the Yale University School of Music...	Rabbi Israel Goldfarb	Jan Meyerowitz	Benjie Schiller
C. Attenhofer	Maurice Goldman Maurice Goldman Maurice Goldman is an internationally known composer and conductor. Goldman’s compositions and arrangements are largely in the areas of Yiddish and Hebraic music...	Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...	Sigmund Schlesinger
Aaron Avshalomov Aaron Avshalomov Aaron Avshalomov was a Russian-born Jewish composer.Born into a Mountain Jewish family, he was sent for medical studies to Zürich. After the October Revolution, in 1917, which made further studies in Europe impossible, his family sent him to the United States...	Jack Goldstein Jack Goldstein Jack Goldstein was a Canadian born, California-based performance and conceptual artist turned painter in the 1980s art boom.-Early life and education:...	Aaron Miller Aaron Miller Aaron Michael Miller is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman. Over the course of his fourteen year career in the National Hockey League, Miller played for four teams: the Quebec Nordiques, who eventually relocated and became the Colorado Avalanche, the Los Angeles Kings, and the...	Ralph Schlossberg
Morris Barash	Raymond Goldstein	Issachar Miron	Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...
Steve Barnett Steve Barnett Jerry Stephen Barnett is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Oregon and was drafted in the second round of the 1963 NFL Draft...	Osvaldo Golijov Osvaldo Golijov Osvaldo Noé Golijov is a Grammy award–winning composer of classical music.-Biography:Osvaldo Golijov was born in and grew up in La Plata, Argentina, in a Jewish family that had emigrated to Argentina in the 1920s from Romania and Russia.Golijov has developed a rich musical language, the result of...	Douglas Moore	Paul Schoenfield Paul Schoenfield Paul Schoenfield is a classical composer. He is known for combining popular, folk, and classical music forms.Schoenfield was born in 1947 in Detroit, Michigan. He began to take piano lessons at the age of six, and wrote his first composition a year later. Among his teachers were Julius Chajes,...
Robert Beaser Robert Beaser Robert Beaser is an American composer.-Biography:Beaser was brought up in a non-musical family. His father was a physician and mother was a chemist. He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts where he distinguished himself at a young age as a percussionist, composer and conductor...	Solomon Golub	Richard Neumann	Ruth Schonthal Ruth Schonthal Ruth Schönthal was a pianist and contemporary composer.-Early years:...
Sidor Belarsky Sidor Belarsky Sidor Belarsky, born Isidor Livshitz , was a Ukrainian-American singer born to a Jewish family in Kryzhopol, Ukraine....	Jack Gottlieb	Alexander Olshanetsky Alexander Olshanetsky Alexander Olshanetsky was a Jewish-American composer, conductor, and violinist of Russian Jewish descent. He was a major figure within the Yiddish theatre scene in New York City from the mid 1920s until his death in 1946.-Life and career:...	Israel Schorr Israel Schorr Israel Schorr was a prominent cantor during the Golden Age of Hazzanut. Born in the Polish region of Galicia then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to a Hasidic family, Schorr began his career as a boy, singing soprano in the courts of various hassidic masters, notably the Rebbe of...
Ofer Ben-Amots Ofer Ben-Amots Ofer Ben-Amots is a classical Israeli-American composer and teacher of music composition and theory at Colorado College. His music is inspired by Jewish folklore of Eastern-European Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish Ladino traditions...	Jacob Gottlieb	Leo Ornstein Leo Ornstein Leo Ornstein was a leading American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century...	William Schuman William Schuman William Howard Schuman was an American composer and music administrator.-Life:Born in Manhattan in New York City to Samuel and Rachel Schuman, Schuman was named after the twenty-seventh U.S. president, William Howard Taft, although his family preferred to call him Bill...
Paul Ben-Haim Paul Ben-Haim Paul Ben-Haim was an Israeli composer. Born Paul Frankenburger in Munich, Germany, he studied composition with Friedrich Klose and he was assistant conductor to Bruno Walter and Hans Knappertsbusch from 1920 to 1924...	Morton Gould Morton Gould Morton Gould was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.Born in Richmond Hill, New York, Gould was recognized early as a child prodigy with abilities in improvisation and composition. His first composition was published at age six...	Charles Osborne Charles Osborne Charles Osborne hiccupped continuously for 68 years .Osborne was from Anthon, Iowa, U.S., and he was entered in Guinness World Records as the man with the Longest Attack of Hiccups. The hiccups started in 1923 and persisted for a total of 68 years...	Abe Schwartz Abe Schwartz Abe Schwartz was a well-known klezmer musician of the 1920s.Abe was born outside of Bucharest, Romania, and moved to the United States in 1899...
Aaron Bensoussan	S. Gozinsky	Moishe Oysher Moishe Oysher Moishe Oysher Moishe Oysher Moishe Oysher (Yiddish: משה אוישר, (born 1906 in Lipkon (Lipkany), Bessarabia, Imperial Russia – died 27 November 1958, New Rochelle, New York, USA). was a cantor and Yiddish theatre actor. He is considered one of the most entertaining chazanim (cantors) ever...	Gerard Schwarz Gerard Schwarz Gerard Schwarz is an American conductor. He was music director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 2011.In 2007 Schwarz was named music director of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina, having served as principal conductor since 2005...
Jean Berger Jean Berger Jean Berger was a German-born pianist, composer, and music educator.-Early years:...	Max Graumann	Thomas Pasatieri Thomas Pasatieri Thomas Pasatieri is an American opera composer.He began composing at age 10 and, as a teenager, studied with Nadia Boulanger...	Sholom Secunda
Irving Berlin Irving Berlin Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...	Helen Greenberg	Arnold Perlmutter & Herman Wohl	Harold Shapero Harold Shapero Harold Samuel Shapero is an American composer.-Early years:Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Shapero and his family later moved to nearby Newton. He learned to play the piano as a child, and for some years was a pianist in dance orchestras. With a friend, he founded the Hal Kenny Orchestra, a swing-era...
Herman Berlinski Herman Berlinski Herman Berlinski was a German-born American composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and choir conductor.-Family background; early upbringing:...	Todros Greenberg	Frederick Piket	Ralph Shapey Ralph Shapey Ralph Shapey was an American composer and conductor. He is well-known for his work as a composition professor at the University of Chicago, where he founded and directed the Contemporary Chamber Players...
Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...	Emily Gresser	Pierre Pinchik	Michael Shapiro Michael Shapiro Michael Shapiro may refer to:*Michael Jeffrey Shapiro, composer and music director of the Chappaqua Orchestra*Michael Shapiro , voice actor of Barney and the G-Man in the Half-Life series of computer games...
Thomas Beveridge	Roy Harris Roy Harris Roy Ellsworth Harris , was an American composer. He wrote much music on American subjects, becoming best known for his Symphony No...	Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...	William Sharlin
Abraham Binder Abraham Binder Abraham Wolfe Binder was an U.S. Jewish composer.Binder was born in New York City. He studied at Columbia University. He became a teacher in 1921 and professor at the New York Jewish Institute of Religion in 1937. He was the founding music director of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue from 1926...	Vladimir Heifetz	Jan Radzynski	Judith Shatin Judith Shatin Judith Shatin is an American composer. Currently, she is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at the University of Virginia.She also founded and is Director of the Virginia Center for Computer Music.-References:...
Ernest Bloch Ernest Bloch Ernest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer.-Life:Bloch was born in Geneva and began playing the violin at age 9. He began composing soon afterwards. He studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe...	Max Helfman	Shulamit Ran Shulamit Ran Shulamit Ran is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony won her the Pulitzer Prize...	Ben Zion Shenker
William Bogzester	Jerry Herman Jerry Herman Jerry Herman is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. He has been nominated for the Tony Award five times, and won twice, for Hello, Dolly! and La Cage...	Jacob Rappaport	Nathaniel Shilkret Nathaniel Shilkret Nathaniel Shilkret was an American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive, and music director born in New York City, New York to an Austrian immigrant family.-Early career:...
Victoria Bond Victoria Bond -Life:Victoria Bond was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of operatic bass Philip Bond and concert pianist Jane Bond. Her grandfather was also a liturgical composer. The family later moved from California to New York, and Bond studied piano at the Mannes School of Music with Nadia...	Joel Hoffman Joel Hoffman Joel Hoffman is an American film and television actor. He has starred in Pumpkinhead, Slumber Party Massacre II, and Highway to Heaven and now teaches English at Reedley High School.-External links:...	Karol Rathaus	Solomon Shmulowitz
Yehezkel Braun Yehezkel Braun -Biography:From the age of two, Braun, was brought up in Mandate Palestine in close contact with Jewish and East-Mediterranean traditional music. The influence of this background is clearly felt in his compositions....	Michael Horvit	Maurice Rauch	Bonia Shur
Martin Bresnick Martin Bresnick Martin Bresnick is a composer of contemporary classical music, film scores and experimental music.-Education and early career:Bresnick was born and raised in the Bronx, and is a graduate of New York City's specialized High School of Music and Art. He was educated at the University of Hartford ,...	Michael Isaacson Michael Isaacson Michael Isaacson is an influential composer of Jewish synagogue music, as well as one of the originators of the Jewish Camp Song movement...	Steve Reich Steve Reich Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich is an American composer who together with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass is a pioneering composer of minimal music...	Elie Siegmeister Elie Siegmeister Elie Siegmeister was an American composer, educator and author.His varied musical output showed his concern with the development of an authentic American musical vocabulary...
Murray Brody	Frederick Jacobi Frederick Jacobi Frederick Jacobi was a prolific American composer and teacher.His works include symphonies, concerti, chamber music, works for solo piano and for solo organ, lieder, and one opera....	Stephen Richards Stephen Richards Stephen Richards may refer to:* Stephen Richards , lawyer and politician from Ontario, Canada* Stephen L Richards , American religious leader* Sir Stephen Richards , Lord Justice of Appeal...	Mark Silver
Dave Brubeck Dave Brubeck David Warren "Dave" Brubeck is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills...	Max Janowski Max Janowski Max Janowski , was a composer of Jewish liturgical music, a conductor, choir director, and voice teacher. Born in Berlin, in the early 1930s he became head of the piano department at the Musashino Academy of Music, Tokyo, Japan. He emigrated to the United States in 1937 and served in the U.S...	Sid Robinovitch	Sheila Silver Sheila Silver Sheila Silver is an American composer.She was born in Seattle, Washington in 1946,she started her piano studies at the age of five. In 1968 she received Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California at Berkeley, and had her Ph.D from Brandeis University, Mass. in 1976. She is an important...
Samuel Bugatch	Pinchos Jassinowsky	George Rochberg George Rochberg George Rochberg was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Life:Rochberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended the Mannes College of Music, where his teachers included George Szell and Hans Weisse, and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Rosario Scalero and...	Moses Silverman
Shlomo Carlebach Shlomo Carlebach Shlomo Carlebach , known as Reb Shlomo to his followers, was a Jewish rabbi, religious teacher, composer, and singer who was known as "The Singing Rabbi" during his lifetime...	Tzipora Jochsberger	David Roitman	Leo Smit Leo Smit Leopold Smit was a Dutch composer, killed during The Holocaust at the Sobibor extermination camp.-Compositions:...
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an Italian composer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he migrated to the United States and became a film composer for some 200 Hollywood movies for the next...	Oscar Julius	Emanuel Rosenberg	Ray Smolover Ray Smolover Ray Smolover is an American vocal pedagogist, voice teacher, tenor, opera librettist, opera director, and hazzan. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and Columbia University. One of his notable students was Richard Kiley...
Julius Chajes	Alois Kaiser Alois Kaiser Alois Kaiser American chazzan and composer, and considered to be the founder of American cantorate....	Yossele Rosenblatt	Robbie Solomon
Gerald Cohen Gerald Cohen Gerald Allan "Jerry" Cohen was a Marxist political philosopher, formerly Visiting Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College, London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford...	Sholom Kalib	Morris Rosenzweig	Max Spicker & William Sparger
Gustave Cohen	Martin Kalmanoff	Salomone Rossi/Freed	Robert Starer Robert Starer Robert Starer was an Austrian-born American composer and pianist.Robert Starer began studying the piano at age 4 and continued his studies at the Vienna State Academy...
Aaron Copland Aaron Copland Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...	Isaac Kaminsky	Bruce Roter	Edward Stark
Doug Cotler Doug Cotler Douglas Norman Cotler is a Grammy award winning singer-songwriting and composer based in Los Angeles, California.Doug Cotler is a Grammy Award-winning composer and an accomplished singer, songwriter and musician...	Fischel Kanapoff	Joseph Rumshinsky Joseph Rumshinsky Joseph Rumshinsky , Jewish composer born near Vilna in Lithuania . Rumshinsky - with Sholom Secunda, Alexander Olshanetsky, and Abraham Ellstein - is considered one of the "big four" of American Yiddish theater....	Leon Stein Leon Stein Leon Stein was an American composer and music analyst.Stein attended DePaul University, where he achieved his MM in 1935 and his Ph.D. in 1949; he studied under Leo Sowerby, Eric DeLamarter, Frederick Stock, and Hans Lange...
Mario Davidovsky Mario Davidovsky Mario Davidovsky is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today...	Abraham Kaplan Abraham Kaplan Abraham Kaplan was an American philosopher, known best for being the first philosopher to systematically examine the behavioral sciences in his book "The Conduct of Inquiry" . His thinking was influenced by pragmatists Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey.-Biography:Kaplan's...	Frederic Rzewski Frederic Rzewski Frederic Anthony Rzewski is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.- Biography :Rzewski began playing piano at age 5. He attended Phillips Academy, Harvard and Princeton, where his teachers included Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Milton Babbitt...	Benjamin Steinberg
Charles Davidson Charles Davidson Sir Charles William Davidson KBE was an Australian politician. He attended Townsville Grammar School in 1912 and 1913. He served in World War I and on his return was a dairy farmer and later grew sugar cane. During World War II, he served in the 42nd Battalion of the Australian Army in New...	Adolph Katchko		Robert Stern
A.J. Davis	Aaron Kernis		David Stock David Stock David Frederick Stock is an American composer and conductor.Stock is a longtime resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he serves as a professor of composition and as the conductor of the Contemporary Ensemble at Duquesne University...
Paul Dessau Paul Dessau Paul Dessau was a German composer and conductor.- Biography :Dessau was born in Hamburg into a musical family...	Gershon Kingsley Gershon Kingsley Gershon Kingsley a contemporary German American composer, is well known as a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer and founder of the First Moog Quartet, as a partner in the famous electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, and for his rock-inspired compositions for Jewish religious...		Robert Strassburg Robert Strassburg Robert Strassburg was aleading American conductor, composer, musicologist and music educator of the twentieth century. His studies in music were completed under the supervision of such leading composers as Igor Stravinsky, Walter Piston and Paul Hindemith, with whom he studied at Tanglewood...
David Diamond David Diamond David Diamond is the name of:* David Diamond , American composer* David Diamond * David Diamond , American screenwriter* David Diamond, frontman and songwriter with Canadian band The Kings...	Frederick Kitziger		Igor Stravinsky Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
Paul Discount	Jonathan Klein Jonathan Klein Jon or Jonathan Klein may refer to:* Jonathan Klein , former president of the American television news network CNN* Jonathan Klein , founder of Getty Images...		David Tamkin David Tamkin David Tamkin was an American composer of Jewish descent. He devoted much of his professional career as an arranger, composer [uncredited] and orchestrator of film scores for Hollywood movies. He worked on more than 50 films between 1939 and 1970.-Biography:Tamkin was born in Chernihiv, Ukraine...
Rubin Doctor	Jeff Klepper		Alexandre Tansman Alexandre Tansman Alexandre Tansman was a Polish-born composer and virtuoso pianist. He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life...
Jacob Druckman Jacob Druckman Jacob Druckman was an American composer born in Philadelphia. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Druckman studied with Vincent Persichetti, Peter Mennin, and Bernard Wagenaar. In 1949 and 1950 he studied with Aaron Copland at Tanglewood and later continued his studies at the École Normale de...	Henech Kon Henech Kon Henech Kon, Henryk Kon, 1890-1972, born in Łódź to a Chassidic family, sent at the age of 12 to his grandfather in Kutno, where he studied torah but also studied with local klezmers, absorbing folk music from players and badkhonim...		Craig Taubman Craig Taubman Craig Reid Taubman is an American singer/songwriter and music producer based in Los Angeles, California. Through his independent label/production office, Craig 'N Company, he has produced 11 albums...
Haim Elisha	Jerome Kopmar		Aaron Tishkowsky
Abraham Ellstein Abraham Ellstein Abraham "Abe" Ellstein was an American composer for Yiddish entertainments. Along with Shalom Secunda, Joseph Rumshinsky, and Alexander Olshanetsky, Ellstein was one of the "big four" composers of his era in New York City's Second Avenue Yiddish theatre scene...	Erich Korngold		Ernst Toch Ernst Toch Ernst Toch was a composer of classical music and film scores.- Biography :Toch, born in Leopoldstadt, Vienna, into the family of a humble Jewish leather dealer when the city was at its 19th-century cultural zenith, sought throughout his life to introduce new approaches to music...
Shaye Englehardt	Moshe Koussevitzky Moshe Koussevitzky Moshe Koussevitzky was a cantor and vocalist. A relative of noted conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, he made many recordings in Poland and the United States....		Ilia Trilling Ilia Trilling Ilia Trilling, was a German-born Yiddish theatrical producer and composer for Yiddish theatrical works. He was active in Poland, Ukraine and the United States....
Charles Feldman	Leo Kraft Leo Kraft Leo Kraft is an American composer, author, and educator.He holds degrees from Queens College and Princeton University. He studied composition with Karol Rathaus, Randall Thompson, and Nadia Boulanger...		Joelle Wallach Joelle Wallach Joelle Wallach is an American composer. As a girl she lived for a few years in Morocco before returning to the United States to attend the Juilliard School's pre-college program where she studied the piano, singing, theory and composition. She attended Sarah Lawrence College where she earned a...
Irving Fine Irving Fine Irving Gifford Fine was an American composer. Fine's work assimilated neo-classical, romantic and, later, serial elements...	Leon Kramer		Donald Waxman
Vivian Fine Vivian Fine Vivian Fine was an American composer.Over her 70 year career, Vivian Fine became one of America’s most important composers. She wrote virtually without a break for 68 years, producing over 140 works...	Meyer Kupferman Meyer Kupferman Meyer Kupferman was a prolific American composer and clarinetist.-Life:Meyer Kupferman was born in New York City. A self taught composer, Kupferman first gained attention in the late 1940s when his early opera "In A Garden" was premiered at the Tanglewood and Edinburgh Festivals. From 1951 to 1993...		Franz Waxman Franz Waxman Franz Waxman was a German-American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
Meir Finkelstein Meir Finkelstein Meir Finkelstein is a cantor and composer of contemporary Jewish liturgical music. He has composed more than 200 settings for the liturgy, as well as scored numerous television programs, made-for-TV movies, and documentary films. His tunes are sung in many Conservative, Reform, and...	David Kusevitsky		C. Weber
Lukas Foss Lukas Foss Lukas Foss was a German-born American composer, conductor, and pianist.-Music career:He was born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922. His father was the philosopher and scholar Martin Fuchs...	Ezra Laderman Ezra Laderman Ezra Laderman is an American composer of classical music.-Biography:His parents, Isidor and Leah, both emigrated to the United States from Poland. Though poor, the family had a piano. Ezra writes, "At four, I was improvising at the piano; at seven, I began to compose music, writing it down...		Kurt Weill Kurt Weill Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
Isadore Freed Isadore Freed Isadore Freed was a Jewish composer of Belarusian birth.-Biography:Born in Brest-Litovsk, now Brest, Belarus, Freed's family emigrated to the United States when Freed was three years old and settled in Philadelphia, where his father owned a music store...	Paul Lamkoff		Jacob Weinberg
Avraham Fried Avraham Fried Avraham Shabshi Hakohen Friedman better known by his stage name, Avraham Fried, is a popular musical entertainer in the Orthodox Jewish community.-Career:...	Marc Lavry Marc Lavry Marc Lavry was an Israeli composer and conductor.Marc Lavry was a most prolific composer who belonged to an exclusive group of artists who formulated what is known today as Israeli music....		Lazar Weiner Lazar Weiner Lazar Weiner was a Ukrainian-born, American-naturalized composer of Yiddish song. He emigrated to America at the age of 17 and later became the music director of the Central Synagogue, New York.-Works:...
Debbie Friedman Debbie Friedman Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman was an American composer and singer of songs with Jewish religious content. She was born in Utica, New York but moved with her family to Minnesota at age 5. She is best known for her setting of “Mi Shebeirach”, the prayer for healing, which is used by hundreds of...	Henri Lazarof Henri Lazarof Henri Lazarof is a Bulgarian composer.Born in Sofia, Bulgaria his formal musical training began in Israel under Paul Ben-Haim. After a short stint in Rome, Lazarof settled in the United States, studying with Harold Shapero and Arthur Berger at Brandeis University...		Hugo Weisgall Hugo Weisgall Hugo David Weisgall was an American composer and conductor, known chiefly for his opera and vocal music compositions...
Dan Frohman	Benjamin Lees Benjamin Lees Benjamin Lees was a contemporary U.S. composer of Art music, born in Harbin, China, raised in San Francisco and lived in Palm Springs, California.-Early life:...		David Werdiger
Herbert Fromm	Marvin Levy		Richard Wernick Richard Wernick Richard Wernick in Boston, Massachusetts is a US composer. He is best known for his composition "Visions of Terror and Wonder," which won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Music.-Career:...
	Jorge Liderman Jorge Liderman Jorge Mario Liderman was an American composer. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and taught composition at the University of California, Berkeley.- Life :...		Herman Wohl Herman Wohl Herman Wohl Born in Otinya near Stanislavov, eastern Galicia. He was raised in a Chasidic home and studied with cantors from the age of 9. He soon began composing, directing choirs, and singing as a Hazzan himself...
	Joshua Lind		Juliusz Wolfsohn
	Leo Low		Stefan Wolpe Stefan Wolpe Stefan Wolpe was a German-born composer.-Life:Wolpe was born in Berlin. He attended the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory from the age of fourteen, and the Berlin Hochschule für Musik in 1920-1921. He studied composition under Franz Schreker and was also a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni...
			Yehudi Wyner Yehudi Wyner Yehudi Wyner is an American composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator.Wyner, who grew up in New York City, was raised in a musical family. His father, Lazar Weiner, was an eminent composer of Yiddish art songs. Wyner attended Juilliard, Yale, and Harvard...
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			Judith Zaimont
			Herman Zalis
			Eric Zeisl
			Alexander Zemlinsky
			Zavel Zilberts
			Solomon Zim
			John Zorn John Zorn John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...