Nisim (Nikolai Lvovich) Zaslavsky – accompanist, arranger, cantor, composer. Born September 4, 1885 in Poltava (Poltava province of the Russian Empire, now Ukraine) in a musically gifted family.
As a child he sang at the cantor Ben-Zion Feibush. In 1897 he was received as a chorister in the Choir of the Brodsky Synagogue in Kiev (Choirmaster Abram Dzimitrovsky). Played at the piano in Kiev. The conducting was studied in Berlin, where he also sang in one of the local synagogues. As an accompanist in 1907, he toured in Scandinavia and Belgium. Later he immigrated to the United States, where he became one of the first leaders of the Arbeter Ring Khor / Workmen’s Circle Chorus. He graduated from Yale University, after which he was a cantor, organist and choirmaster of various New York synagogues. In 1933 he became music director of the Jewish radio station WEVD in New York.
Niklas Zaslavsky died on August 1, 1965 in New York (USA).
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Was Nicholas related to Alexander Saslavsky who married Celeste Izolee Todd?
Anyone have a contact email for Yair Klinger or link to score for Ha-Bayta?
wish to have homeland concert video played on the big screen throughout North America.
can organize here in Santa Barbara California.
contacts for this needed and any ideas or suggestions welcomed.
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The article says Sheb recorded his last song just 4 days before he died, but does not tell us the name of it. I be curious what it was. I’d like to hear it.