From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   [Jewish Telegraphic Agency]   
      
   Maurice El Medioni, Algerian Jewish pianist revered among Jews and   
   Muslims, dies at 95   
      
   Nearly 70 years ago to the day, an up-and-coming young Algerian Jewish   
   pianist by the name of Maurice El Medioni dashed off a letter to the   
   Moroccan Jewish superstar Samy Elmaghribi in Casablanca.   
      
   "I have not forgotten you," he wrote on March 31, 1954. "If I haven't   
   written you earlier it is because I have been so busy." Nonetheless, El   
   Medioni made clear his intention to bring his counterpart to Algiers and   
   Oran to perform in concert.   
      
   By April 1955, El Medioni was accompanying Elmaghribi, described by one   
   newspaper as "the greatest Arab attraction of all time," in Algeria for a   
   series of Ramadan concerts that made a remarkable impression on Jewish and   
   Muslim audiences. In the mid-20th century, North African Jewish musicians   
   continued to set the tone across Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, including   
   in the midst of wars of liberation.   
      
   Until El Medioni's death March 25 in Israel at the age of 95, the pioneer   
   of the "pianoriental" style and a consummate musical innovator remained   
   nearly as busy as he did decades earlier, albeit in a very different time   
   and place then the one where he first made his mark.   
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