John Williamson - And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Live)

MILNER Mikhail Arnoldovich [17 (29) XII 1886, p. Rakitno of the Kiev lips. - 25 X 1953, Leningrad] - Soviet composer. From childhood, he sang in Heb. provincial choirs, later in the choir of A. N. Dzmitrovsky in Kiev, where under his leadership, and then under the arm. O. D. Wecker learned to play the php. In 1907-15 he studied in St. Petersburg. conservatory at A. M. Miklashevsky and M. N. Barinova (fp.) and A. K. Lyadov, I. I. Vitol, V. P. Calafati (composition). During these years he published a number of works written in the traditions of the Belyaevsky circle. In the owls. time in the work of M. clearly identified trends in the arts. arr. Heb. musesfolklore. Along with MP Gnesin, A. A. Krein and A. M. Veprikom was one of the leading masters of the Heb. music. The author of many solo and choral woks. op., genre fp. plays, song cycles, music for dramas. performances of the studio "Gabima", Washington. Heb. theater (in 1924-25 the head of the music. part), large muses. cit., incl. the opera The New Way (on the social reconstruction of the village). In 1923-31 he worked in Heb. Theater in Kharkov (head of the music. part). In 1931-41 it was thin. hands. Jewish wok. ensemble in Leningrad, wrote during the years of the blockade a number of military-patriotic. essays.