Yedidya Admon

Yedidya Admon, also given as Yedidiah Admon, Yedidyah Admon Gorochov, or Yedidyah Admon-Gorokhov, (5 December 1894 – 2 April 1982) was an Israeli composer and singer. As a composer he was known for blending Western classical music with Middle Eastern music. Some of his best known works include the songs “Shir Hagamal” and “Shoshanat Yaakov”. where he was a pupil of Abraham Zvi Idelsohn. During World War I, Admon enlisted in the British Army and stationed in Egypt. After the war he returned to Palestine where he obtained employment as an accountant. While working he studied singing with Jehuda Har-Melaḥ; training as a countertenor. In 1923 Admon left Palestine to continue his music studies in the United States studying at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1927 after four years of study. In Baltimore he studied composition and singing. While in America he was commissioned to write a vocal composition in the Arab-Bedouin style, and enlisted the help of Lazare Saminsky to complete this work. Admon himself was a gifted singer in the type of vocalizing. His first songs, “Ya leil” (‘Oh night’) and “Bein nhar prat” (‘Between the River Euph