Leading musicologists from this country, Israel, the United States and other lands gathered here for the first International Institute of Hebrew Musicology. The institute is sponsored by the World Jewish Congress.
Among the participants are the famous French composers, Georges Milhaud and Alexandre Tansman, and Cantor Maurice Granchoff, Curi Sachs and Eric Werner, from the United States An orchestral concert that will mark the conclusion of the conference will be given next week featuring world premieres of Hebrew music by Arnold Schoenberg Ernest Broch Milhaud Lazare Saminsky and Paul Ben-Haim.
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