Death of a US composer in Israel
RIPWe have been notified of the death, on April 29 in Jerusalem, of the composer Paul Schoenefeld, who melded traditional Ashkenazi-Jewish music with western orchestral settings. Paul was 77.
Before migrating to Israel, he was Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan. His opera, The Merchant and the Pauper, based on a story by the Hasidic mystic Nahman of Bratslav, was premiered by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in 1999.
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