Benjamin Bar-Am

Background

Benjamin (Bernhard) Bar-Am was born on July 20, 1923, in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany. He was the son of Rosa (nee Hermer) and Isidore Berman.

Education

Benjamin Bar-Am studied music with composer Paul Ben-Haim in Tel Aviv between 1945-1949 and then at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1950-1951 and a college of Music in Tel Aviv.

Career

Since 1959 Benjamin Bar-Am has been a music critic of the Jerusalem Post daily. Between 1960 and 1974 he served as general secretary of the Israel Composers’ League and between 1974 and 1977 as its chairman. Since 1973 Benjamin Bar-Am has lectured at the Department of Musicology, Tel Aviv University, and was head of the Israeli Music Archive. He also taught Jewish liturgical music and music history at the Lewinsky Teachers’ College.

Works

• album

  • Benjamin Bar-Am: Vocal Works

• song

  • My Little Sister: II. To Watch with Soft Eyes
  • Remember that I Loved
  • My Little Sister: IV. In Seventy-Seven Funerals
  • Three Songs: II. The Vanguard
  • I Shall Revive My Soul
  • Stimmen
  • My Little Sister: I. Angels Go with My Sister (Prologue)

Connections

Father:

Isidore Berman

Mother:

Rosa