The hip-hop stylings of Matisyahu or the traditional cantorial liturgy of Yosele Rosenblatt? ❋ Jenna Weissman Joselit (2012)
Filed under: Arts | Tagged: blues, cantorial music, JDub, Jeremiah Lockwood, jewish music, The Sway Machinery, WJMF 09 ❋ Unknown (2009)
Filed under: Arts | Tagged: blues, cantorial music, JDub, Jeremiah Lockwood, jewish music, The Sway Machinery, WJMF 09 | 2 Comments » ❋ Unknown (2009)
I wanted my mother not to wear cotton house dresses with snaps and my father to play golf, not Moishe Oysher cantorial chants on the record player. ❋ Sybil Adelman Sage (2012)
Alan Nahigian Avram Grobard, the former proprietor of the El Avram nightclub, at his home in Watchung, N.J. Yet in addition to much of Broadway (and the related "songbook") "Jewish music" also means klezmer, traditional cantorial wails and other liturgical music, a unique heritage of novelty songs, spoken-word and comedy, not to mention everything that comes out of Israel (a spectrum of pop and folk music unto itself). ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)
"It's such great fun to sing, since I get to combine some cantorial flourishes with a dash of Yiddishkeit and a classic Jewish story," said Mr. Breitzer. ❋ Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim (2011)
The publication of "And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl" can be seen as a manifesto for the breadth of Jewish music that Kun and the Idelsohn Society are trying to preserve: cantorial albums; Yiddish songs; comedy albums in English, Yiddish and Yinglish; Mickey Katz; records about the Holocaust, the struggle to free Soviet Jews; even Israeli disco fever. ❋ Tom Teicholz (2010)
"When most people think of Jewish music in America, there are some very specific things they think about," said Kun, a founding member of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation, alluding to cantorial and klezmer music, which he deemed hugely important. ❋ Tom Teicholz (2010)
The two Los Angeles-area institutions that have joined us in this idealistic vision are the Academy for Jewish Religion, California, a transdenominational rabbinical, cantorial, and chaplaincy school, and the Islamic Center of Southern California, the oldest and largest mosque in Los Angeles, which plans to help us establish the Center for Advanced Islamic Scholarship to be one of the first accredited programs for imams in the United States. ❋ Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook (2010)
It was in fact only after embarking on a career in architecture that the gifted tenor and multi-instrumentalist, having freelanced as a cantorial soloist in congregations around Germany, shifted gears and decided to pursue cantoring professionally. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A member of BCC who happened to serve on the synagogue's search committee for a new cantor ran into Porat just as he was wrapping up his cantorial studies. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Songs like Mi Re Do and Burnt, with their fizzing staccato vocal lines in unison with her right hand are full of spiky energy; the cantorial organ-accompanied Ahavas Oylam has a suitably declamatory power; and there's a warm double-track vocal harmony on the Yiddish folk song Hulyet Hulyet. ❋ Unknown (2010)
She served as cantorial soloist at the New Reform Congregation in Los Angeles, California, and directed the music component of the intensive Hebrew Chalutzim program at Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where she continues to co-lead Hava Nashira, the annual song-leading and music workshop she created. ❋ Unknown (2010)
