A Musical Interlude
May 07, 2012
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I have been invited to co-chair the Composers Workshops at this summer’s national joint conference of the Guild of Temple Musicians and American Conference of Cantors.
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Apr 09, 2012
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This year’s version of the annual Winter Jewish Music Concert at Temple Israel of Greater Miami was the program’s best in its four years of existence.
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Mar 03, 2012
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The Winter Jewish Music Concert was a glorious evening of singing and playing attended by an overflow audience of 720, with hundreds more viewing the live internet stream from their homes. Anadditional 200 names were on a Waiting List to attend the concert, which was sold out late in December. The annual concert, noted as one of the finest, if not the finest of its sort in the country, is recognized for its varied and diverse repertoire, contrasting musical styles, and brilliant execution by two dozen of the finest Jewish singers and instrumentalists throughout the state and from outside of Florida. The annual concert, begun in 2009 in celebration of my 18 years of service at Temple Israel, is now recognized and promoted nationally, without our solicitation or expense, and was promoted this year by the Miami Herald (who had a photographer in the Bertha Abess Sanctuary the entire evening), the Knight Arts Foundation (which annually gives out $20 million in grant money), WLRN radio (which played a two minute interview with me four times during morning and afternoon rush hour), the Union for Reform Judaism, the Jewish Journal, and temple websites and bulletins from each synagogue the performers came from. It is not too soon to mark your calendars for next year’s concert on Saturday, January 19, 2013, and please take to heart our communicating that the concert will be sold out weeks ahead of time.
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Jan 30, 2012
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The 2011 Union for Reform Judaism National Biennial Convention was not only a great music making experience for me, but also a trip down a twenty year old memory lane.
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Jan 03, 2012
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Special music for our Dr. Martin Luther King Shabbat service on Friday, January 13, 2012 will be presented by the Male Ensemble from the Florida Memorial University Ambassador Chorale. This a capella male quartet, under the direction of J. Allen Pealer, has performed throughout Florida and Georgia. They are known for their tight four-part harmony, rhythmic drive, and unique quality of sound.
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Dec 19, 2011
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Brazil, England, Canada, California, Texas, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and beyond. These are some of the locations where tickets are being purchased online for the Winter Jewish Music Concert on January 14 at 8pm. We are anticipating the usual overflow audience of 700, as has been the norm since the (previously named) Annual South Florida Cantorial Concert began in 2009. Tickets are snatched up as the online site receives orders, without regard to who the purchaser is. Congregants and friends of the performers do not receive the courtesy of tickets being made available especially for them, so it is important that you visit the sites where tickets are available (listed below), and purchase your tickets early.
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Nov 09, 2011
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Some of the nation's most distinguished cantors will be performing in South Florida this month, and I will have the pleasure of accompanying them. Singing at Temple Torah in Boynton Beach on Sunday evening, November 6 at 7:30 will be Cantor David Propis, president of the Cantor's Assembly, and Cantor Alberto Mizrahi, the world's greatest interpreters of chazzanut.
Read More…A Week of Study at Hebrew Union College
Sep 01, 2011
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For the fifth consecutive year, I attended Mifgash Musicale, a weeklong course of study for synagogue musicians held every summer at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Jun 01, 2011
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For an international competition for composers of sacred Jewish music, the American Conference of Cantors and the Guild of Temple Musicians invited submissions of newly composed unpublished sacred Jewish music.
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