Issachar Miron

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Issachar Miron (* 5. July 1920 in Kutno , Poland as Stefan Michrowsky ; † 29. January 2015 ) was an Israeli composer .

Miron graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory in 1938 and emigrated to Palestine in 1939. Miron was the first deputy director of the Israel Ministry of Education. In the 1960s he served as the musical director of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation in Israel and the United States. He was also dean of the music faculty at the Jewish Teachers' College in New York, now Touro University .

In addition to the classical compositional style, he particularly reflected on the musical development of Israeli folk music in his works. One of his most popular songs was Tzena Tzena (1941), which became famous worldwide from 1946 a. a. by Pete Seeger , Frank Sinatra , Bing Crosby , Nat King Cole , Judy Garland , Dusty Springfield , Connie Francis , Vic Damone , Chubby Checker, and Arlo Guthrie . In the version with Seeger and The Weavers , the song reached number two on the Billboard charts in July 1950 .

Awards

  • Engel Prize (Israel)
  • Kavod Award from the Cantors Assembly of America
  • Various gold and silver medals from the International Film and Television Festival in New York
  • ASCAP (in 2000)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Issachar Miron Obituary in: The New York Times , March 1, 2015, accessed February 13, 2017
  2. ↑ Ronald D. Cohen, James Capaldi (Ed.): The Pete Seeger Reader . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-986201-6 , pp. 102 ( google.de ).
  3. ↑ Jeffrey K. Salkin: Remembering Pete And The 'Secret History' Of 'Tzena Tzena.' In: The New York Jewish Week. February 3, 2014, accessed February 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Miron, Issachar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Michrowsky, Stefan (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli composer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Kutno , Poland
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2015