Two Iraqi Jewish Musicians In the U.S. ca. 1969-75.

Hosted by Ian Nagoski. Listen to the music of two Iraqi Jewish musicians in the U.S. ca. 1969-75. The cantor Arie Ovadia (b. Kirkuk 1937) came to the U.S. in the mid-1970s and made one LP accompanied by kanunist Avraham David Hacohen before settling in Florida and singing for congregations there. Violinist (b. Baghdad ca. 1927) came to the U.S. in 1947 to study composition with avant-gardists Ernest Bloch and Roger Sessions at U.C. Berkeley and found work as a player in the Arab-American community of Brooklyn in the 1950s.

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