Samuel Cohen was an Jewish Palestinian immigrant from Bessarabia, best remembered for his arrangement of the Israeli National Anthem, Hatikvah. In 1882, while living in Rishon LeZion, Cohen put a poem by Naftali Herz Imber to music for which he claimed to have taken the melody from an unidentified Moldavian folk song. Indeed, the melody bears close resemblance to the Moldavian and Romanian folk-song “Carul cu Boi” (The Cart with Oxen) and also to other Romanian songs using the same notes: “Song of may” (Cântec de mai = Luncile s-au desteptat) or ” Maize with up-standing leaves’ – Cucuruz cu frunza-n sus”) The melody with subtle variations and different especially in the second part is also known in several other cultures (cf. an Italian Renaissance song “La Mantovana”, the Swedish song “Oh,Vaermeland”, the Ukranian folk-song “Kateryna Kucheryava”, or Curlyhaired Catherine)) and was used by Bedrich Smetana in his symphonic poem “Die Moldau/Vltava”.
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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.
Nat farber is my great grandpa 😊
Are there any movies or photos of max kletter? His wife’s sister was my stepmother, so I’m interested in seeing them and sharing them with his wife’s daughter.
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.
Would anyone happen to know where I can find a copy of the sheet music for a Gil Aldema Choral (SATB) arrangement for Naomi Shemer’s “Sheleg Al Iri”. (Snow on my Village)?
Joseph Smith
Kol Ram Community Choir, NYC
שלום שמעון!
לא שכחתי אותך. עזבתי את ישראל בפברואר 1998 כדי להביא את בני האוטיסט לקבל את העזרה המקצועית שלא הייתה קיימת אז בישראל. זה סיפור מאוד עצוב וטרגי, אבל אני הייתי היחיד עם ביצים שהביא אותו והייתי הורה יחיד בשבילו במשך חמישה חודשים. הוא היה אז בן 9. כעת הוא בן 36 ומתפקד באופן עצמאי. נתתי לו הזדמנות לעתיד נורמלי. בטח, אבות כולם חרא, אומרים הפמינציות, אבל כולם צריכים לעבוד כמטרות במטווחי רובה!
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