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Jascha Trabsky
Jascha and Yascha are Yiddish or German language spellings of the East Slavic name Yasha, a diminutive of Yakov, or Jacob. Notable people with the name include: * Jascha Brodsky (1907–1997), Russian-American violinist * Jascha Franklin-Hodge (born 1979), American businessman * Jascha Gopinko (1891–1980), Ukrainian-Australian violinist * Jascha Heifetz, (1901–1987), Russian-American violinist * Jascha Horenstein (1898–1973), American conductor * Jascha Lieberman, Polish violinist * Jascha Richter (born 1963), Danish-American singer and songwriter * Jascha Silberstein (1934—2008), German-born American musician * Jascha Spivakovsky (1896–1970), Russian-born Australian pianist * Jascha Washington (born 1989), American actor * Jascha Zayde (1911–1999), American pianist, composer and conductor * Yascha Mounk (born 1982), German-American political scientist See also * * Yasha * Joscha Joscha is a unisex given name, found in Germany and Switzerland. Notable people w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasha (other)
Yasha may refer to: People with the name * Gu Yasha (born 1990), Chinese footballer * Nidhi Yasha (born 1983), Indian costume designer * Yasha Khalili (born 1988), Iranian footballer *Yasha as a diminutive of the Slavic given name Yakov, Jacob: ** Yasha Asley (born 2003), British mathematics child prodigy ** Yasha Levine (born 1981), Russian-American investigative journalist and author ** Yasha Malekzad (born 1984), English music video director and producer ** Yasha Manasherov (born 1980), Israeli Greco-Roman amateur wrestler Arts and entertainment Anime and manga * ''Yasha'' (manga), a Japanese manga series by Akimi Yoshida * ''Yasha Gozen'', a Japanese one-shot manga by Ryoko Yamagishi * '' Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon'', a Japanese anime series and the sequel to ''Inuyasha'' Fictional characters * Yasha, in the 1904 Russian play ''The Cherry Orchard'' by Anton Chekhov * Yasha, in the 1990 Soviet adventure film ''Passport'' * Yasha, in the 1993 Japanese anime film '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob
Jacob, later known as Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca. Accordingly, alongside his older fraternal twin brother Esau, Jacob's paternal grandparents are Abraham and Sarah and his maternal grandfather is Bethuel, whose wife is not mentioned. He is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. Then, following a severe drought in his homeland Canaan, Jacob and his descendants migrated to neighbouring Egypt through the efforts of his son Joseph, who had become a confidant of the pharaoh. After dying in Egypt at the age of 147, he is supposed to have been buried in the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron. Per the Hebrew Bible, Jacob's progeny were beget by four women: his wives (and maternal cousins) Leah and Rachel; and his concubines Bilhah and Zilpah. His sons were, in orde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jascha Brodsky
Jascha Brodsky (June 6, 1907 – March 3, 1997) was a Russian-American violinist and teacher. He spent most of his career on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and co-founded the New School of Music, Philadelphia. Biography Born in Kharkiv, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire (in present-day Ukraine), he began his violin studies with his violinist father at the age of six. He later studied at the conservatory in Tbilisi, Georgia, and by 1926, was performing successfully all over the Soviet Union. That same year, he went to Paris to study with Lucien Capet. There he also played for Sergei Prokofiev ( Violin Concerto No. 1) and performed with pianist Vladimir Horowitz and violinists Nathan Milstein and Mischa Elman. Soon thereafter, he moved again, to Belgium to study with Eugène Ysaÿe. In 1930 he moved to the US to study with Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute of Music. Alongside his classmates Orlando Cole, Max Aronoff, and Benja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jascha Franklin-Hodge
Jascha Franklin-Hodge is the chief of streets for the City of Boston, Massachusetts under Mayor Michelle Wu. He previously served as the chief information officer for the city under Mayor Marty Walsh, and co-founded digital consulting firm Blue State Digital. In his role as Chief of Streets, he oversees the Boston Transportation Department and Public Works Department. Early life and career Franklin-Hodge entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study computer science. His passion for software began before university when he worked for Software Tool & Die, based in Brookline, Massachusetts. He continued his software development career at Art Technology Group through his first year at MIT. Before his sophomore year, he left school in 1998 to work full-time at Spinner in the Bay Area before the company was acquired by AOL to become AOL Music, an early digital venture into online music. Dean campaign and Blue State Digital He left AOL in 2003 to join the upstart and dark-h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jascha Gopinko
Jascha Gopinko (15 December 1891 – 4 July 1980), born in Ukraine and later resident in Australia, was a violinist, conductor and teacher of string instruments. Life Gopinko was born in 1891 near Mogilev in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. He was the son of Jewish parents Hirsch Gopinko, a cloth manufacturer, and his wife Sarah. He studied violin at Warsaw Conservatory where he was a student of Paweł Kochański. To avoid having to serve in the Russian army, he left Europe and in August 1914 arrived at Melbourne, Australia. He later moved to Kurri Kurri, in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, where he worked as a coal miner. In his spare time he played his violin; his neighbours, impressed by his playing, asked him to teach their children. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jascha Heifetz
Jascha Heifetz (; December 10, 1987) was a Russian-American violinist, widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time. Born in Vilnius, he was soon recognized as a child prodigy and was trained in the Russian classical violin style in St. Petersburg. Accompanying his parents to escape the violence of the Russian Revolution, he moved to the United States as a teenager, where his Carnegie Hall debut was rapturously received. Fritz Kreisler, another leading violinist of the twentieth century, said after hearing Heifetz's debut, "We might as well take our fiddles and break them across our knees."Nikolaus de Palezieux, Jascha Heifetz – The Supreme (2000 RCA Victor compilation) By the age of 18, Heifetz was the highest-paid violinist in the world. He had a long and successful concert career, including wartime service with the United Service Organizations (USO). After an injury to his right (bowing) arm in 1972, he switched his focus to teaching. Early life Heifetz was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jascha Horenstein
Jascha Horenstein (; – 2 April 1973) was an American conductor. Biography Horenstein was born in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Kyiv, Ukraine), into a well-to-do Jewish family; his mother (Marie Ettinger) came from an Austrian rabbinical family and his father (Abraham Horenstein) was Russian. His family moved to Königsberg in 1906 and then to Vienna in 1911 and he studied at the Vienna Academy of Music starting in 1916, with Joseph Marx (music theory) and Franz Schreker (composition). In 1920, he moved to Berlin and worked as an assistant to Wilhelm Furtwängler. During the 1920s he conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic. He became principal conductor of the Düsseldorf Opera in 1928, and then the company's Generalmusikdirektor in 1929. He had to resign his post in March 1933 after the rise of the Nazi Party. His Düsseldorf tenure was the only permanent musical directorship in his career. Forced as a Jew to flee the Nazis, he moved to the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jascha Lieberman
Jascha Lieberman is a Polish violinist and violist. He studied with Stefan Kamasa, Giora Feidman, and Lepold Kozłowski. Lieberman was a member of the string quartet conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki. Festivals He performed in numerous festivals, most important of which are: * Sagra Malatestiana Rimini, Italy * Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Germany * Verbier Festival & Academy, Switzerland Jascha Lieberman Trio Jascha Lieberman Trio is a klezmer band from Kraków, Poland, formed in 1995. The musicians play traditional jewish music, classical music, and jazz. They did perform on television, radio and in concerts in Europe and North America. Discography * '' Remembrance of Kazimierz'' (1999) * '' The Bats Gallery'' (2010) See also * Giora Feidman * Klezmer music Klezmer ( or ) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic impr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jascha Richter
Jascha Richter (born 24 June 1963) is a Danish-American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist and keyboardist of the soft rock band Michael Learns to Rock, where he composes and sings most of their songs. Some of his best known songs include " 25 Minutes", " The Actor", " Sleeping Child", " That's Why (You Go Away)", " Take Me to Your Heart", "Complicated Heart", " Someday", "Wild Women", "Out of the Blue", "You Took My Heart Away" and " Paint My Love". Early life Jascha Richter was born on 24 June 1963 in Concord, New Hampshire, before his family decided to move back to Denmark, where they settled in Aarhus. He holds both Danish and American citizenship. As a child, Richter started playing the flute and cello and then the piano. He was raised with classical music; however, in his early teenage years he started to play and compose pop music. Growing up, he listened to Elton John, Supertramp and Bee Gees among others. Career Richter is known as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jascha Silberstein
Jascha Silberstein, born Hannes Bruno Willer, (21 April 1934 — 21 November 2008, Hot Springs, Arkansas) was a German-born American musician. He was for thirty years first cellist of the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Early life and education Silberstein was born in Stettin, Germany (today Szczecin, Poland) under the name of Hannes Bruno Willer, and raised in Stettin and then Mannheim. To escape the 1943 bombing raids on Stettin, his family relocated to the maternal home in southern Germany, with his father, a physician, remaining in Stettin. Beginning studies on the piano aged 5, he made his first public appearance at 11, playing Bach's ''Concerto in D minor'', then switched to the cello aged 12 after hearing Gregor Piatigorsky play. After playing for several years with a gypsy band in Wiesbaden and an orchestra in Munich, he studied cello with Rudolf Hindemith, Paul Hindemith's brother, and the legendary Czech violinist Váša Příhoda. He adopted the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jascha Spivakovsky
Jascha Spivakovsky (18 August 1896 – 23 March 1970) was a Russian Empire-born Australian piano virtuoso of the 20th century. He was hailed as a child prodigy in Odessa but almost murdered by Imperial Guards during the 1905 Pogrom. He fled to Berlin and was declared the heir of Anton Rubinstein and likened to Ignacy Paderewski and Teresa Carreño before being imprisoned as an Imperial Russian enemy alien during World War I. In the interwar period he became internationally recognized as one of the greatest pianists in the world and regarded in Europe as the finest living interpreter of Brahms. He also formed a trio which toured Europe with phenomenal success and was declared the finest in the world. Towards the beginning of 1933 he was warned by Richard Strauss in a musically coded secret message that he had become a Nazi target due to his Jewish heritage. He fled to Australia a few days before the Nazi seizure of power and put his musical career on hold to help people escape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jascha Washington
Jascha Akili Washington (born June 21, 1989) is an American former actor and songwriter. He is best known for ''Big Momma's House'' (2000), '' Big Momma's House 2'' (2006), and '' Like Mike 2: Streetball'' (2006). Life and career Washington was born on June 21, 1989, in Kings County, California, and debuted on television in 1997 on the episode "A Reverend Runs Through It" of the series '' Brooklyn South''. He first appeared on film a year later as Will Smith's character's son Eric in '' Enemy of the State'' (1998). His notable film and television roles include an episode of ''The Suite Life of Zack & Cody'' as character Drew, Trent Pierce in ''Big Momma's House'' and its sequel in a cameo role, Dr. Gideon's son Eli on ''Gideon's Crossing'', and as Jerome in '' Like Mike 2: Streetball'' (2006). He guest-starred on ''The Bernie Mac Show'' episode "It's a Wonderful Wife" and in the series '' House M.D.'' in the episode "Family" in 2007. Washington presented a project The Final at A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
