In December 1922, the young poet and composer Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) was folded into a hired car by two attendants and driven from his home in Gloucestershire, a rural county northwest of London, to ...

Moisei Beregovsky led a team of ethnomusicologists at the Kiev Cabinet for Jewish Culture in the early 1940s, their goal being to preserve Soviet Jewish musical culture. Scores of songs from enlisted ...

Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), a promising student of the English composer Charles Villiers Stanford, thought of music, not poetry, as his primary vocation. It was in the trenches in France during World War ...