Nourishing Jewish life through the arts
Rimon: The MN Jewish
Arts Council
A Celebration of Jewish Musical Traditions
Thursday, May 2, 7:30 PM & Sunday, May 5, 4:00 PM
At the Sabes Jewish Community Center
4330 South Cedar Lake Road, Minneapolis, MN 55416
Nourishing Jewish Life Through the Arts This project was made possible in part with the support of Rimon,
an initiative of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation.
with Dr. Joshua Jacobson
Soprano 1Patti ArntzShelby JohnsonAngela OakmanSchele Smith +Kim Wetteland Soprano 2Rachel Christensen*Brandy Klingel-GullicksonJan LeClair +Rachel LevyBecky PanschWendy Zaro-Mullins
Alto 1Judy ArnsteinMonica Degeneffe*Gloria FredkoveSheri WilliamsTess Winker
Alto 2Etta BernsteinJessie ClausenRosalie EldevikKathie SchneiderStephanie Young-Teske
Tenor 1Michael Mullins*Paul SkavnakPaul SteverKen Williams + Tenor 2Joel BierbachSteve LommenGerald MindrumBill MunsonTad Thompson
Bass 1Mike Borg +Dan Digre +Jeremy DworshakSheldon KlukasDan Thompson Bass 2Phil Davis*Mike McCannBrent MunceJoe Shade Member in absentia:Penny Meier +Dana Skoglund +
* Section Leaders+ Leadership Team
Singers in Accord
Bill Munson, Pianist / Singers in Accord Accompanist
Bill Munson is the Music Coordinator at Faith Lutheran Church in Forest Lake, MN, where he leads the music ministry program. A Minnesota native, Munson holds a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from the University of Minnesota and a Master’s of Music in Collaborative Piano from the University of Colorado. Bill has studied piano with Dr. Alexander Braginsky and Professor Robert Spillman and has served as a Vocal Coach at Metro State College of Denver in Colorado. Bill and his wife, Lisa, and their dogs, Schubert and Chopin, currently live in Saint Paul.
Enriching lives and building community through the power of choral music.
Dr. Joshua Jacobson holds a bachelor’s degree in music from Harvard College, a master’s in choral conducting from the New England Conservatory and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Jacobson is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Northeastern University in Boston, where he served nine years as Music Department Chairman and six years as the Bernard Stotsky Professor of Jewish Cultural Studies. He is also Visiting Professor and Senior Consultant in the School of Jewish Music at Hebrew College and the founder and director of the Zamir Chorale of Boston, a world-renowned ensemble specializing in Hebrew music.
He has conducted workshops on choral music for various groups, including the American Choral Directors Association, and has guest conducted a number of ensembles, including the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Bulgarian National Symphony and Chorus, the New England Conservatory Orchestra and the Boston Lyric Opera Company. He has also written articles on various aspects of choral music, and over one hundred published compositions and arrangements. In 1994 he was awarded the Benjamin Shevach Award for Distinguished Achievement in Jewish Educational Leadership from Hebrew College. Prof. Jacobson is past president of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Choral Directors Association.
He is the conductor and host of the PBS film, Zamir: Jewish Voices Return to Poland. His book, Chanting the Hebrew Bible: The Art of Cantillation, published by the Jewish Publication Society in 2002, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. He is coauthor of Translations and Annotations of Choral Repertoire—Volume IV: Hebrew Texts, published by earthsongs in 2009. In 2004 the Cantors Assembly presented Prof. Jacobson with its prestigious “Kavod Award.”
Message from the Chairman of the Board
The seed for tonight’s concert was planted back in 1999 when our predecessors in World Voices had an opportunity to briefly work with Dr. Joshua Jacobson in a concert at Beth El synagogue. We were so inspired by Josh, his music and his stories behind the music, that we decided a more extended project would be a priority for Singers in Accord.
Fourteen years later, we present “Chorál Judáica”, a celebration of Jewish musical traditions. This project is not just a concert but a week of workshops for students at Rockford and Armstrong high schools and Concordia University, choral directors from Minnesota’s American Choral Directors Association, cantors with the Minnesota Cantors Association and students of cantillation.
The Jewish choral musical heritage is not well known in our area outside the synagogue. Yet, it is broad, rich and full of profound texts, captivating rhythms and choral beauty. It is our hope tonight that you will discover this for yourself and seek opportunities to hear more of it.
One place for doing that is by attending concerts of one of our collaborating partners, The Twin Cities Jewish Chorale at their upcoming concert on Sunday June 2nd at Bet Shalom Congregation.
We need to say a special thanks to our preparation conductor, Judy Sagen, who has rehearsed us for many weeks to prepare this concert. She is an extraordinary conductor and musician in her own right, and she has been the perfect partner for this project.
The mission of Singers in Accord is to enrich lives and build community through the power of choral music. The SIA community has expanded in this project as we have made many new friends and partners. We are most grateful to all of them for their responsiveness and openness to being a part of this project.
Thank you for being here to share this glorious music with us. Throughout history, choral music has expressed the songs of the human spirit in a way that no other art form can.
Dan Digre Chairman of the Board
Dr. Joshua Jacobson
ProgramPsalm 150 Tzvi Avni
Adon Olam Salamone Rossi Kenneth Lampl Charles Davidson
Five Hebrew Love Songs Eric Whitacre
L’chu N’ran’nah Shlomo Carlebach (arr. Jacobson)
Mizmor l’David Shlomo Carlebach (arr. Jacobson)
Shedemati (with TCJC) Yedidyah Admon (arr. Jacobson)
Dance the Horah!: (with TCJC) Joshua Jacobson
•HeyHarmonika Alkony •Mayim,Mayim EmanuelAmiran(arr.Jacobson)
Sim Shalom (with TCJC) Max Janowski
And the Angels Sing Johnny Mercer & Ziggy Elman (arr. Jacobson & Bailey)
Rachel Levy in the Davidson “Adon Olam”
Kim Wetteland & Schele Smith in “Five Hebrew Love Songs IV”
Ken Williams in “L’chu N’ran’nah”
Sim Shalom Cantor Buckner (May 2nd) Cantor Abrams (May 5th)
Soloists
Mizmorei T’hilim (Tzvi Avni)III. Psalm 150
The word, Hal’luyah, consists of two Hebrew words. Hallel means praise. Yah means God. In six succinct verses, this powerful Psalm, the final Psalm of the book of Psalms, tells us to praise God. A description of where, why and how to praise God follows the initial directive.
In 1967, Tzvi Avni, an Israeli composer, captured the power of this Psalm as the conclusion of his work Mizmorei T’hilim (Psalm Songs).
Adon Olam
Adon Olam, a poetic masterpiece attributed to the 11th century Spanish poet, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, has been part of Ashkenazic prayer services since the 14th century. In five rhyming couplets, this poem presents God as transcendent and immanent, universal and personal.
Salamone Rossi composed this piece, one of nine motets scored for double chorus, in the early 1600s. Rossi is the first composer known to have written choral music for the synagogue.
Kenneth Lampl’s Adon Olam is in a modern style, powerful and compelling.
Charles Davidson offers Adon Olam in a jazz style.
Lord of the universe, who ruled
before anything was created,
at the time when all things were made at His wish,
then was His name proclaimed King.
And after all things shall have come to an end
He alone, the revered one, shall reign,
He was, He is
and He will be, in glory.
He is One, and there is no other
to compare with him, to consort with Him;
without beginning, without end,
to Him belong power and dominion.
He is my God – and my Redeemer liveth –
and a Rock in my suffering on a day of trouble;
He is my banner and my refuge,
the portion of my cup on the day when I call.
Into His hand do I commend my spirit
when I sleep and when I awake,
and with my spirit my body also;
the Lord is with me and I shall not fear.
Hallelujah. Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in the sky, His stronghold.
Praise Him for His mighty acts; praise Him for His exceeding greatness.
Praise Him with blasts of the horn; praise Him with harp and lyre.
Praise Him with timbrel and dance; praise Him with lute and pipe.
Praise Him with resounding cymbals; praise Him with loud-clashing cymbals.
Let all that breathes praise the LORD. Hallelujah.
Music
Five Hebrew Love Songs (Eric Whitacre)
These short poems were written in 1996 by Hila Plitmann, Eric Whitacre’s wife. Whitacre then set these poems to music for solo voice and piano. In 2001, the songs were adapted for SATB chorus. Each poem captures a very personal moment in their lives together. Kala Kalla (Light Bride) is a play on words, homonyms, spelled differently, but sounding alike. The music perfectly captures the mood of each poem.
A PictureA picture is engraved in
my heart:Moving between light and
darkness,A sort of silence envelops
your bodyAnd your hair falls upon
your face just so.
Light BrideLight brideShe is all mine.And lightlyShe will kiss me.
Mostly“Mostly,” said the roof to
the sky,“The distance between you
and me is endlessness;But a while ago two came
up hereAnd between us was left
only one centimeter.”
What Snow!What snow!Like little dreamsFalling from the sky.
TendernessHe was full of tenderness;She was very hard.And as much as she tried to
stay thus,Simply, and with no good
reason,He took her into himself,And set her downIn the softest, softest place.
L’chu N’ran’nah (Shlomo Carlebach)
L’chu N’ran’nah is the first of six psalms that introduce the Shabbat evening service. Set to Carlebach’s enchanting melody, this arrangement captures the joy and enthusiasm of a Carlebach service.
Come, let us sing joyously to the LORD, raise a shout for our rock and deliverer;
let us come into His presence with praise; let us raise a shout for Him in song!
For the LORD is a great God, the great king of all divine beings.
In His hand are the depths of the earth; the peaks of the mountains are His.
His is the sea, He made it; and the land, which His hands fashioned.
Come, let us bow down and kneel, bend the knee before the LORD our maker,
for He is our God, and we are the people He tends, the flock in His care. O, if you would but heed His charge this day:
Do not be stubborn as at Meribah, as on the day of Massah, in the wilderness,
when your fathers put Me to the test, tried Me, though they had seen My deeds.
Forty years I was provoked by that generation; I thought, “They are a senseless people; they would not know My ways.”
Concerning them I swore in anger, “They shall never come to My resting-place!”
Mizmor L’David (Shlomo Carlebach) - Psalm 29
This Psalm depicts the presence of God moving in the world. The music of Shlomo Carlebach enhances and amplifies the powerful words of the Psalm.
A psalm of David. Ascribe to the LORD, O divine beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
Ascribe to the LORD the glory of His name; bow down to the LORD, majestic in holiness.
The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD, over the mighty waters.
The voice of the LORD is power; the voice of the LORD is majesty;
the voice of the LORD breaks cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, Sirion, like a young wild ox.
The voice of the LORD kindles flames of fire;
the voice of the LORD convulses the wilderness; the LORD convulses the wilderness of Kadesh;
the voice of the LORD causes hinds to calve, and strips forests bare; while in His temple all say “Glory!”
The LORD sat enthroned at the Flood; the LORD sits enthroned, king forever.
May the LORD grant strength to His people; may the LORD bestow on His people wellbeing.
Shedemati (Yedidyah Admon)
Composed before the establishment of the State of Israel, Shedemati reflects the modes and rhythms of the indigenous Middle Eastern music combined with the Russian roots of Admon. The Zionist ideal of connection with the soil is reflected in the words of this beautiful poem.
A Song of David. My field.At dawn I sowed with tears.The farmer’s prayer is heard.
My field,Drenched in dew,Drunk with sunlight,Bows her stalks before the harvester.Swiftly, with a grand sweep, the sickleIs waved on high.
Dance the Horah! (Joshua Jacobson)
These two songs are forms of the horah, a type of folk dance, brought to Israel from Rumania about one hundred years ago. The horah, a circle dance associated with Israel, actually originated in Eastern Europe.
Hey Harmonika (Alkony)
We shall always rememberthe horah that we dancedtogether in the Galilee.
Hey, accordion, play for me-so every note will vibrate-the horah that we danced together in the Galilee.
Mayim, Mayim (Emanuel Amiran)
This song is built on the Biblical verse, Isaiah 12:3. It is at once ancient and contemporary, having special meaning to the Jews who returned to the ancient Land of Israel, once again making the desert come alive.
Therefore with joy shall you draw water from the wells of salvation.
Sim Shalom (Max Janowski)
After fleeing Nazi Germany, Max Janowski (1912-1991) began writing a new unique type of Jewish choral music, influenced by the cantorial chant, filled with rich harmonies. His choral work is popular, the melodies having become part of the worship service in a simplified form.
Grant peace, goodness, and blessing,Favor, kindness and compassionUpon us and upon all who are in awe
of You. Bless us, our Father, all of us as oneWith the light of Your countenance.For by the light of Your countenance,O LORD, our God, You gave us a teaching of life and love of kindness,Righteousness, blessing,Compassion, life, and peace.
And may it be good in Your sightTo bless Your people Israel,And all people,At all times and at every momentWith Your peace. Blessed are You, O LORD,the Creator of peace.
And the Angels Sing, Johnny Mercer & Ziggy Elman (arr. Jacobson & Bailey)
And the Angels Sing is an adaptation of a wedding dance, “Der Shtiler Bulgar.” Ziggy Elman slowed the tempo, adding a swing rhythm and jazz harmonies. Johnny Mercer provided the lyrics.
We meet and the angels sing,
The angels sing the sweetest song I ever heard.
You speak and the angels sing,
Or am I reading music into every word?
Suddenly, the setting is strange
I can see water and moonlight beaming,
Silver waves that break on some undiscovered shore.
Then suddenly I see it all change,
Long winter nights with the candles gleaming,
Through it all your face that I adore.
You smile and the angels sing,
And though it’s just a gentle murmur at the start,
We kiss and the angels sing,
And leave their music ringing in my heart.
The angels sing!
AcknowledgementsThis project would not have been possible without the help and support of many individuals and organizations. We’d like to say a special thank you to:
David Harris, Executive Director of Rimon
Bruce Becker, Executive Director of ACDA-MN
Cantor Audrey Abrams, Beth El Synagogue
Cantor Scott Buckner, Adath Jeshurun Congregation
Fred Pielert and Kim Hoelmenn, Fred Pielert & Associates
Judi Lamble and Michael Olsen, Twin Cities Jewish Chorale
Todd Bruse, Sabes JCC
Jason Etten, Irondale High School
Bill Torodor
Steve Boehlke
Cantor Scott Buckner
Cantor Buckner joined the staff of Adath Jeshurun Congregation in 1994. He is a graduate of the H.L. Miller Cantorial School of the Jewish Theological Seminary (New York City 1987), where he received awards in the areas of music excellence and voice. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Music from Tufts University with a performance degree in voice and classical guitar. Possessing a lyrical tenor voice with a wide vocal range, Cantor Buckner has thrilled congregations and concert audiences with his Cantorial renditions and musical programs. He has worked together with several modern Jewish singer/songwriters to create a special Friday evening musical service, which is held monthly at Adath Jeshurun Congregation. Cantor Buckner currently serves on the Ethics Committee of the Cantors Assembly (the largest organization of professional Hazzanim in the world).
Cantor Buckner and his wife Marcy are blessed with four children: Heather, Ethan, Matthew and Rachel.
BiosJudy Sagen
Judy Sagen retired from School District 196 of Rosemount, Apple Valley, and Eagan, Minnesota, in the spring of 2011 after teaching 37 years of high school choral music. She received her undergraduate degrees in music education and piano performance from Drake University and her master’s degree from the University of Minnesota.
While teaching in District 196, Judy’s concert choirs and women’s choirs were featured performers at American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and Minnesota Music Educators Association (MMEA) state and regional conventions, The Dorian Vocal and Choral Festival at Luther College, and the St. Olaf Choral Festival. In March of 2006, The Eastview High School Concert Choir was one of six high school choirs selected to perform with world-renowned
Chanticleer in a festival-concert in the Twin Cities.
Judy has been actively involved in both the ACDA and MMEA in major leadership roles. She served as state president of ACDA of MN and held the position of Vocal Vice-President for MMEA. She is actively involved as a clinician and adjudicator around the state of Minnesota. She has been recognized numerous times in Who’s Who of American Teachers and Who’s Who of American Women, and was the recipient of the Randall Award given to an outstanding teacher in District 196.
Judy was named the MMEA Music Educator of the Year in 2009, and ACDA of MN named her the 2003-04 Minnesota Choral Director of the Year. In the spring of 2011, she received the School District 196 Outstanding Service Award recognizing her 37 years of excellence in teaching. This past school year (2011-12) she taught part-time in the music education department at the University of Minnesota, serving as an Instructional Artist in Residence. Currently she is the Artistic Director for the newly founded Minnesota Valley Women’s Chorale, which is made up of approximately 110 singers.
Dale Mendenhall, Clarinet
Dale Mendenhall has over 30 years of professional music experience. As a freelance musician, Dale has performed at Orchestra Hall with the Minnesota Orchestra, The Guthrie, Ordway, Children’s Theatre, The State and Orpheum Theatre, backing up such artists as Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, David Letterman, Jay Leno and many more. He toured Japan with Ben Sidran and the Paris singer Clementine. He has toured Russia with the University of Minnesota concert band. His sound was heard on the #1 pop hit Funkytown and is in demand wherever quality music is a priority in the Twin Cities. He plays regularly with local groups like the Jimmy Behringer band, Minnesota Klezmer Band, TC Jammers with the Hornheads, Stud Brothers, Reuben Ristrom Trio,. His latest CD Four To GO can be heard on the KBEM jazz station.
Dale also plays various jazz festivals around the country with the Orlando, Florida — based Bill Allred Classic Jazz Orchestra.
Will Kemperman, Percussion
Will Kemperman plays percussion in various venues and with many groups around the Greater Twin Cities area. He can be heard playing regularly with the Rochester (MN) Symphony Orchestra, the kirtan group Sitara and Kalyani and at several churches. This spring he will also be playing with the Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus, with a traveling production of Beyond the Rainbow: Garland at Carnagie Hall, and at Bhakti Fest in Madison, Wisconsin. He recently performed in an organ and marimba recital as part of the Elizabeth Chapel Organ Recital Series, House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul.
Will teaches percussion at the University of St. Thomas, Hamline University, Normandale Community College,
Schmitt music in Edina, and his own home studio. He earned a Master of Music degree in Percussion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated from Macalester College. He currently lives in Minneapolis.
Cantor Audrey Abrams
Cantor Abrams, originally from Rochester, New York, has a B.M. in Music Therapy from Michigan State University and an M.A. in Music Education and Therapy from the University of Minnesota. She has worked with a variety of populations in the Music Therapy field, including geriatrics, psychiatric and physically handicapped. She began her service at Beth El in 1990 as High Holyday Hazzan Sheni. At the time she lived in Connecticut and commuted back to Minneapolis for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur each year. In 1995, when she and her family returned to the Twin Cities, Cantor Abrams became Beth El’s Program Director. In 2001, she received her certification from Hebrew Union College’s Cantorial Certification Program and became Beth El’s first Associate Cantor in the fall of 2002. Cantor Abrams has conducted services at a variety of congregations in Connecticut, Virginia, New York and Minneapolis,
was a featured soloist with the Mendelssohn Club Choir of Connecticut, sung with the Minnesota Chorale and has been the soprano for the Twin Cities quintet, Kolot, since 1995. She is married to David, and they have two daughters, Rachel and Sally, and Louise, the cat.
John Anker, Bass
John is an active musician in the Twin Cities, playing for musicals, choral groups, churches, and synagogues. He plays double bass in the East Metro Symphony Orchestra in Woodbury and sings with the Minnesota Valley Men’s Chorale in Apple Valley. He has played bass for the following musicals: Spelling Bee, A Chorus Line, Return to the Forbidden Planet, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood for Chameleon Theatre Circle in Burnsville; Fiddler on the Roof for Prior Lake Players; Godspell for Easter Church in Eagan; Cinderella for Eagan Community Theatre; Music Man for Eat Street Players in Minneapolis; and Into the Woods for Woodbury Community Theatre.
Elizabeth Bell, Violin
Violinist Elizabeth Bell, a founding member of the Bel Canto Quartet, has performed throughout the United States and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician.
As a soloist, Liz has performed the Barber Violin Concerto, Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole, the Chausson Poeme, and The Lark Ascending. She performed the North American premier of the Melartin Violin Concerto at the 2007 FinnFest.
Liz has performed with numerous symphony orchestras and toured the United States and Europe with the American Chamber Symphony. She has performed in Vienna’s Musikverein and New York City’s Alice Tully Hall. Apart from her classical experience, she has played in a rock band, for the Ice Capades, as Concertmaster
for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Donny Osmond’s return to the stage), on stage with Rod Stewart, and in orchestras accompanying Luciano Pavarotti, Led Zepplin, Sarah Brightman, Josh Groban, Gavin DeGraw, Barry Manilow, Aretha Franklin, Burt Bacharach, and The Who.
Liz studied violin at the University of Minnesota and Indiana University. She makes her home in Edina with her husband, Metro Retro drummer Tom Wahlrobe, and their two (nearly) domesticated cats, Minnie and Leo. When not playing music, Liz enjoy spending time digging in her garden and perfecting her recipe for compost!
The TCJC was founded in the Fall of 2009 with the goal of becoming an artistically excellent, multigenerational community concert choir. Our mission is to perform the full range of Jewish music while providing outreach and education. More specifically, the TCJC aims to perform ancient and modern repertoire, liturgical and secular pieces, rarely performed works, and new compositions in a variety of languages, including Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, English, and others. We also look forward to collaborating with other choirs. We are excited to provide outreach and education by bringing to light the often unexplored Jewish musical repertoire and sharing these works with the community at large. More information on TCJC can be found at www.twincitiesjewishchorale.org.
Michael D. Olsen, Musical Director
Michael holds a Master’s of Music in choral conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music, and earned degrees in Vocal Music and Theatre from Moorhead State University. Michael has directed the choral programs at Blake and Minnehaha Academy, and the volunteer adult choir at
Hope Presbyterian Church. He also served for a semester as the interim director of the Bethel University Men’s Choir. Michael is currently a substitute teacher in Hopkins and, in his spare time, sings in two choirs, volunteers at Time for Tots Preschool in the Phillips Neighborhood of Minneapolis, dabbles in composing and arranging music, and enjoys time up at his family lake cabin. He has two children in college, and has lived in Golden Valley for over 25 years.
Twin Cities Jewish ChoraleTwin Cities Jewish Chorale
Michael Olsen, DirectorLynette Eastwold, AccompanistSusan Druskin, SopranoJoyce Greene, SopranoJudi Lamble, SopranoFreddie Pink, SopranoKris Prince, SopranoRachel Ratner, SopranoJoanie Rischall, SopranoBonnie Sussman, SopranoEtta Bernstein, AltoBev Fishman, AltoNorma Kaplan , AltoJean Klitzner Hoffman, AltoMimi Nachman, AltoSuzanne Prass, AltoSusan Presberg-Greene, AltoCari Shaw, AltoMarilyn Weisberg, AltoJames Bukstein, TenorJulie Eckhert, TenorMax Elkin, TenorLarry Fulton, TenorLawrence Gibson, TenorAdam Gilbert, TenorJoseph Rine, TenorAlan Chazin, BassRobert Davidson, BassPaul Eastwold, BassRuben Tahir, BassBill Torodor, BassGary Wolfman , Bass
Synagogue SingersBeth El SingersSharon TorodorSteven WallerMiriam GrafJill BlustinArt Rotman Pam Lehman
Shir Tikvah SingersAndrea KircherLisa BrownsteinAndrea FeshbachZoe NicholieRoger Sweet Ginny Levi
Mount Zion SingersSusan BenfieldWilliam ChittendenNancy CohenShel FinverKaren GjerstadRenae Goldman
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Highlights from Zamir’s 2011 tour to Berlin — music from the synagogue bima to the cabaret stage. Recorded live in concert June 2012 at Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University.
A selection of 20 pieces of music including the following from the Chorál Judáica:
Sim Shalom, Max Janowski
Lekhu Neranenah, Shlomo Carlebach (arr. Jacobson)
Mizmor LeDavid, Shlomo Carlebach (arr. Jacobson)
Adon Olam, Kenneth Lampl
Adon Olam, Charles Davidson
Maestro Joshua Jacobson and the Zamir Chorale of Boston have put together a celebration of jazz from America and Israel. You will hear Gershwin’s classics, including Summertime and I Got Rhythm, Jewish-American popular songs such as Ba Mir Bistu Sheyn and Yiddisha Charleston, choruses from Dave Brubeck’s monumental Gates of Justice, Charles Davidson’s jazzy Adon Olam, Moshe Wilensky’s ode to the charms of South America, Venezuela, and even an Israeli version of Java Jive.
A selection of 15 pieces of music including the following from the Chorál Judáica:
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Adon Olam, Charles Davidson
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Cliff Digre MemorialIn November, Singers in Accord lost a very special member of its extended family, Cliff Digre. Cliff was a stalwart presence at almost every concert, lighting up the front row and inspiring the performers with his infectious smile full of pride and appreciation. He invested generously in Singers in Accord, not only because his son is a part of the ensemble, but because he too believed in the transformational power of music to uplift the soul – even in times of great personal challenges. Cliff’s family gifted Singers in Accord with a memorial on his behalf, specifically to ensure that this wonderful and culturally important collaboration with Josh Jacobson would come to fruition in our community. So as we experience the power and mystique of this captivating music together, we dedicate these performances to the Digre family with grateful hearts, in honor and celebration of Cliff’s legacy and the inspiration he leaves with all who were touched by his generous spirit.
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“A Grateful Gathering” with Jerry Rubino“The World in Six Songs” with Nick Page“Serenade of the Heart” with Kathy Romey“Ignite the Spirit” with J.D. Steele“Live, Laugh, Love” with Jerry Rubino
“Conflict and Contentment” with Dr. David Mennicke
“Sing with the Earth” with Nancy Grundahl“Songs of the Spirit” with Dr. David Mennicke“Latin Fire” with Dr. Peter Hendrickson“Chorál Judáica” with Dr. Joshua Jacobson
Auditions are now being scheduled for May 21, 2013.
How do I audition? Complete the audition form:
Call For AuditionsAudition appointments for all voice parts are currently being
scheduled for Singers in Accord – 2013-14 Season
Be a part of Singers in Accord’s 5th season of amazing musical collaborations!
Our Previous 4 Season’s ConcertsSingers in Accord enjoyed exciting collaborations with these highly respected conductors – in the concerts listed below:
Be A Part Of Our Next SeasonOur first 2013-14 Season starts with
“Fit for a Queen” - Coronation Anthems by GF HandelNovember 16th & 17th, 2013
Presented by Singers in Accord with Matthew Mehaffey.
Join Singers in Accord and guest director, Matthew Mahaffey next November as they present “Fit for a Queen” – majestic coronation anthems by GF Handel!
This concert will also feature an 18 piece baroque orchestra and include an audience sing-a-long with the Hallelujah Chorus!
Dr. Mehaffey is associate professor of music at the University of Minnesota and current artistic director of the Oratorio society of MN.
Mark your calendars now and watch for more information this summer.
Go to: www.singersinaccord.org Click on: “Request an Audition”
Send an e-mail request, to: [email protected]
