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Avi Benjamin, the Glossary

Avi Benjamin (אבי בנימין; Ави Беньямин; born 3 March 1959) is an Israeli composer and performer, musical director of the Israeli Gesher Theater since its foundation in 1991.^[1]

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20th-century Estonian Jews
20th-century Estonian male musicians
21st-century Estonian Jews
Israeli film score composers

Adam Resurrected

Adam Resurrected (translit, Ein Leben für ein Leben: "Life for Life") is a 2008 American-German-Israeli drama film directed by Paul Schrader and written by Noah Stollman based on a 1969 novel of the same name (he:אדם בן כלב) by Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk.

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Anna Klas

Anna Klas (born Anna Gurevitš; 23 January 1912 – 20 April 1999) was an Estonian pianist and pedagogue. Avi Benjamin and Anna Klas are 20th-century Estonian Jews and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre alumni.

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Arthur Schnabel

Arthur Schnabel (16 September 1948 – 22 October 2018) was a German judoka.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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Bruno Lukk

Bruno Lukk (30 June 1909 Tšussovaja village, Perm Governorate – 31 May 1991 Tallinn) was an Estonian pianist and pedagogue.

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Carla Scaletti

Carla Scaletti (born April 28, 1956) is an American harpist, composer, music technologist and the inventor of the Kyma Sound Design Environment as well as president of Symbolic Sound.

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Chaim Topol

Chaim Topol (חיים טופול; September 9, 1935 – March 8, 2023), mononymously known as Topol, was an Israeli actor.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Composer

A composer is a person who writes music.

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Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.

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Continuum Fingerboard

The Continuum Fingerboard or Haken Continuum is a music performance controller and synthesizer developed by Lippold Haken, a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, and sold by Haken Audio, located in Champaign, Illinois.

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Don Quixote

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Dreyfus (1930 film)

Dreyfus is a 1930 German drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Fritz Kortner, Grete Mosheim, and Heinrich George.

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Estonia

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

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Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre

The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Eesti Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia) began as a mixed choir of the Estonia Society Musical Department (EMD) on the eve of World War I. The assembly of the Estonia Society created the Tallinn Higher Music School on November 17, 1918.

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Evgenia Dodina

Evgenia Dodina (יבגניה דודינה, Евгения Додина, born 10 December 1964) is an Israeli actress of Belarusian origin.

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Gesher Theater

Gesher Theater is an Israeli theater company founded in 1991 in Tel Aviv by new immigrants from Russia.

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Habima Theatre

The Habima Theatre (תיאטרון הבימה Te'atron HaBima, lit. "The Stage Theatre") is the national theatre of Israel and one of the first Hebrew language theatres.

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Hard rock

Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Jaan Rääts

Jaan Rääts (15 October 1932 – 25 December 2020) was a Soviet and Estonian composer who worked extensively on Estonian film scores of the 1960s and 1970s. Avi Benjamin and Jaan Rääts are 20th-century Estonian composers.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Jewish music

Jewish music is the music and melodies of the Jewish people.

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Klezmer

Klezmer (קלעזמער or כּלי־זמר) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe.

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Kyma (sound design language)

Kyma is a visual programming language for sound design used by musicians, researchers, and sound designers.

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Leon Theremin

Lev Sergeyevich Termen (Лев Сергеевич Термен,; 18963 November 1993), better known as Leon Theremin, was a Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced.

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Meir Margalit (actor)

Meir Margalit (מאיר מרגלית, b. 3 May 1906, d. 1974) was an Israeli stage actor.

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Mendele Mocher Sforim

Mendele Mocher Sforim (מענדעלע מוכר ספֿרים, מנדלי מוכר ספרים; lit. "Mendele the book peddler"; January 2, 1836, Kapyl – December 8, 1917, Odessa), born Sholem Yankev Abramovich (שלום יעקבֿ אַבראַמאָװיטש, translit) or S. J. Abramowitch, was a Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature.

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Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (p; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian, later Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century.

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Mordechai Gebirtig

Mordechai Gebirtig (מרדכי געבירטיג), born Mordecai Bertig (4 May 1877 – 4 June 1942), was an influential Polish Jewish poet and songwriter of the interwar period.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Moscow Hermitage Garden

Moscow Hermitage Garden (Сад Эрмитаж), a popular recreation spot, is a park in the central part of Moscow, Russia on Karetny Ryad Street.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Ophir Award

The Ophir Awards (פרס אופיר), colloquially known as the Israeli Oscars or the Israeli Academy Awards, are film awards for excellence in the Israeli film industry awarded by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.

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Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith (16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist, existential tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966.

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Samuil Marshak

Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (alternative spelling: Marchak) (Самуил Яковлевич Маршак; 4 July 1964) was a Soviet writer of Belarusian Jewish origin, translator and poet who wrote for both children and adults. Avi Benjamin and Samuil Marshak are Soviet Jews.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Benjamin

Avi Benjamin, the Glossary

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20th-century Estonian Jews

20th-century Estonian male musicians

21st-century Estonian Jews

Israeli film score composers

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