“It is the music that makes us the Abayudaya:” The Cantors Assembly in Uganda
Apr 29, 2021 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event video
In winter 2019, members and affiliates of the Cantors Assembly traveled to Uganda on a mission of solidarity, learning, and peoplehood with the Abayudaya Jewish community. Trip participants Dr. Amanda Ruppenthal Stein and Hazzan Jeremy Stein discuss the experiences by the CA mission’s participants. Part of Musical Journeys with The Library of JTS.
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The Jewish Music of Leonard Bernstein
Apr 22, 2021 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event video
Hazzan David F. Tilman examines the works of Leonard Bernstein using a rich variety of musical recordings and archival photographs.
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Cantors, Controversy, & Compassion: Searching for God in Musical Complexity
Apr 15, 2021 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event video
What are the spiritual possibilities of music? Five-hundred years ago, rabbis, cantors and Jewish musicians began to explore this question in dramatic new ways. Extended niggunim, orchestras to welcome the Sabbath bride, meshorerim (musical assistants to the cantor), new Hebrew treatises on music, and the borrowing of European musical technique and style contributed to this experimental climate in the synagogues of early modern Europe. But these changes also incited concern and anger from traditionalists, who worried that musical complexity would compromise the halachic and spiritual integrity of authentic prayer.
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Playing for Our Lives: Terezin as a Composer’s Inspiration
Apr 8, 2021 By Gerald Cohen | Public Event video
Cantor Gerald Cohen, composer and assistant professor in the H. L. Miller Cantorial School, will speaks about his composition, Playing for Our Lives, written as a tribute to the music and musicians of the Terezin, perform the composition.
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