… the audio element.   5:55 Half qaddish, performed by the cantor. The first part of this prayer is sung to the melody … loud “sonic cloud.” The continuation of this qaddish by the cantor is performed in the customary fast non-metric … while the second verse, “Adonay hoshi’ah,” is sung by the cantor in a melismatic melody without clear beat that …

… conceptualization of an endangered “heritage” of solo cantorial music (at times framed within a Jewish national … primordial forms. Second, the enrichment of this “pure” cantorial heritage with new choral music, usually for four … these three components entailed the professionalization of cantors, choristers, choirmasters and instrumentalists and …

… only marginally so. Later in his life Smith would serve as cantor in a Black Jewish synagogue in New York.  In an …

… from Izmir, moved to Istanbul to become the  ḥ azzan  (cantor) of the Italian synagogue, a position he held until … in public, but taught Turkish ma ka m to a handful of cantors and appeared in selected radio broadcasts. Most notable among his disciples was the Jerusalem-born cantor Refael Yair Elnadav (1921-2012). Elnadav, half …

… in Amsterdam around 1614, invited to serve as hazzan (cantor) of the new, flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. …

… of three verses from Psalm 80 which is recited by the cantor before the reading from the second Torah scroll … four versions of Elohim hashivenu , three from Italian cantors and one from a cantor from Salonika. Considering the time and material …

… by Mr. Hocha, here are some remarks about this notable cantor. Nehemiah Hocha, cantor and scholar, was born in  Zakho , in the Kurdish … Synagogue of the Aleppan Jews. For many years, Nehemiah was cantor and preacher at the Zekhut Avot Synagogue in …

… of  Yaakov Huri  in the Gerson-Kiwi Collection Iraqi-born cantor, Yaakov Huri was documented by Edith Gerson-Kiwi as …

… liturgical melodies in the modern era. Gershon Efros in his Cantorial Anthology (vol. V, p. 54) replicates Sulzer’s … it down from his own personal memory (in his youth he was cantor in Germany). Notice also that Idelsohn provided two … Breuer (from Frankfurt am Main; Sound example 1 below); Cantor Michel Heymann (from Strasbourg, Alsace, later cantor …

… a period of time as president of the Jewish Ministers and Cantors Association. Kapov-Kagan was well renowned for his … … Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanut, Hazzanim, Hazzanim – Cantors, Cantors – Hazzanim, Cantors … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzanut, …

… currently writing her dissertation, provisionally titled “Cantor Emanuel Kirschner (1857-1938)  - A Biographical …

… On March 15, 1899, the distinguished scholar, cantor, composer and avid manuscript collector Eduard … voice only. These sources are the manuals of the Amsterdam cantors, containing the pieces that they composed for … manuscript sources, one compiled by the 18th-century cantor Joseph ben Isaac Sarfaty of Amsterdam, now housed at …