Mark Slobin is an American scholar and ethnomusicologist who has written extensively on the subject of East European Jewish music and klezmer music, as well as the music of Afghanistan, where he conducted research beginning in 1967. He is...
A glee club is a musical group or choir group, historically of male voices but also of female or mixed voices, which traditionally specializes in the singing of short songs by trios or quartets. In the late 19th century it was very popular in most...
Wesleyan University ( WESS-lee-ən) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1831 as a men's college under the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of...
Alicia Svigals (born 1963) is an American violinist and composer. A co-founder of the Grammy Award-winning band The Klezmatics, she is considered by many to be the world's foremost living klezmer fiddler.
Michael Alpert (born 1954, Los Angeles, California) is a klezmer musician and Yiddish singer, multi-instrumentalist and educator. Ethnomusicologist Mark Slobin referred to him as "a key figure in the modern klezmer revitalization". He is a recipient...
Maurice Nathan Saatchi, Baron Saatchi (Arabic: موريس ساعتجي; born 21 June 1946) is a British businessman, and with his brother, Charles, the co-founder of the advertising agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and M&C Saatchi.
Klezmer-loshn (קלעזמער-לשון klezmer-loshn, Yiddish for Musician's Tongue) is an extinct derivative of the Yiddish language. It was a kind of argot, or cant used by travelling Jewish musicians, known as klezmorim (klezmers), in Eastern Europe prior...
Paapanaasam Raamayya Sivan (26 September 1890 – 1 October 1973) was an Indian composer of Carnatic music and a singer. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1971. He was also a film score composer in Kannada and Tamil...
Moisei Beregovsky (1892 – 12 August 1961, Russian: Моисей Яковлевич Береговский, romanized: Moisey Yakovlevich Beregovsky; Yiddish: משה אהרן בערעגאָװסקי, romanized: Moyshe Aron Beregovski) was a Soviet Jewish folklorist, musicologist and...
