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The Modernity of Piyyut Creativity: Ozreni El Hay Lehakhni'a
… in the world of Sephardic hazzanut (and in his late years, cantor of the Syrian community in Brooklyn), conferred that … recording echoes in another early version, this one by the cantor, composer and educator Nissan Cohen Melamed …
Avinu malkenu (Avino malken)
… is a traditional melody that is elaborated by the cantor using virtuoso vocal resources such as long sustained …
Qamti be-ashmoret (Kamti)
… of the first and second stanzas. Eastern Sephardi cantors use this same melody to sing the stanza Siḥu le-imi …
Qaddish (Kadisch)
… improvised melody applied by Ottoman ḥazzanim (synagogue cantors) to the opening Qaddish of the Sabbath morning …
Yeẓav ha-El (Jessav a El)
… melody in makam Uşak is widespread among Sephardi cantors who use it for singing other liturgical texts. The …
Veha-kohanim (Ve akoanim)
… of the text that is performed in the synagogue by the cantor. This unique, slow, solemn melody combines long …
'Et sha'arei razon (El tharé razon, Et charé rasson, Eth charé razon)
… 2, no. 6) or Li-vritekha shokhen zevul are performed by the cantor in an elaborated manner. Two recordings of the same …
Zokhrenu le-ḥayyim (Zochrenou lechaim)
… A special insertion to the first blessing in the cantor's repetition of the High Holidays' 'amidah , this …
Adonai shama'ti shim'akha (Adonai Schamati)
… Piyyut of the type reshut ("permission") sung by the cantor prior to the repetition of the 'amidah (Eighteen …
Eliezer Goldberg, alias Leyzerke Kremenitser
… hence his surname „Kremenitser”). His father, also a cantor, did not want him to engage in the same profession. … in his hometown. In subsequent years, Goldberg served as cantor in synagogues of the Galician cities of Brody, … fame throughout the region. In 1879, he was appointed cantor at Kraków's Kupah Synagogue, a position he held until …