 Temple Painter (1933 Pulaski, Virginia) is an American harpsichordist and organist.
Temple Painter has performed as solo organist with members of the New York Philharmonic under Hermann Scherchen, as harpsichord soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy, and as solo harpsichordist for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has performed as solo pianist, harpsichordist and organist with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and concertized extensively in the United States, Europe and Israel.
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 Max (Moshe) Wohlberg, hazzan (cantor), composer, theorist, collector of Jewish music and a central figure in the organization and education of the American cantorate was born on February 9, 1907 in Homonna, Hungary. Largely a self-taught musician and scholar, Wohlberg received a thorough religious education as a boy — attending the prestigious Szatmar and Nagy Karoly yeshivot in Hungary. He sang as a boy alto in the Kacinczy Street Synagogue in Budapest but received no formal musical training until after he emigrated to New York City in 1923. After teaching himself elementary piano in his parents' Lower East Side home, Wohlberg began to study music theory with Arnold Powell (Zemachson) and singing with Boris Starling (Skvartzoff) and, later, Walter Mattern. From 1928-29 he sang tenor for two seasons with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus.
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 Born in Pittsburgh in 1929, Charles Davidson is one of the most frequently commissioned composers by synagogues, cantors, and Jewish organizations, as well as by general secular choruses across America. He was one of the first graduates of the Jewish Theological Seminary's Cantors Institute (now the H. L. Miller Cantorial School), where he later also received his doctorate in sacred music and where he has served on the faculty since 1977 (now Nathan Cummings Professor). Early in his career, Cantor Davidson became the music director and conductor of the International Zionist Federation Association Orchestra at the University of Pittsburgh and of the Hadassah Choral Society, and director of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Dance Association. He holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and studied at the Eastman School of Music and C.W. Post College.
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