Taken from one of the major anthologies of Curaçao’s Jewish liturgical music that was edited and annotated by Cantor Norman Swerling. In it appear a few Portuguese melodies that have not been traced back to the community’s musical archive but appeared in Swerling’s collection and were adopted by him from extant published anthologies in an attempt to perpetuate the Portuguese component of the liturgy as demanded from him by the Directiva of the congregation. A most apparent example is Lecha Dodi, which is almost identical to the one included in the important anthology of Hazzan David Aharon de Sola from Amsterdam and London.
Performers:
Gideon Y. Zelermyer (hazzan) and Raymond Goldstein (piano)
