Musical Life and Institutions in Israel: 1880–1990

Musical life was limited by the small size of the yishuv, which had only 80,000 people in 1914, and by the suspicions of the Ottoman administration. However, certain events of that time turned out to be indicative of future developments. In 1895 the founders of one of the first new agricultural settlements, Rishon Le-Tsiyon , formed a community orchestra that took part in all kinds of social and educational events and was well organized, with a salaried conductor and a strict...