Shabbat Shelanu Medley - Cantors Meir Finkelstein, Rachel Goldman, and Chayim Frenkel
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Cantors Meir Finkestein, Chayim Frenkel and Rachel Goldman sing a medley of new Shabbat pieces by Meir Finkelstein with the Houston Symphony and Houston Opera Chorus. From the B'rachot Concert honoring the retirement of Rabbi David Rosen, May 21, 2018 at the Hobby Center, Houston, TX.
These Three Cantors Are Beyond Exceptional! 🎉🎉
Fantastic Posting!!!
Das ist fantastisch !
Beautiful renditions, do you happen to have the music sheet so they may be performed at other synagogues, by curiosity?
You should reach out to Cantor Meir Finklestein at Congregation Beth Yeshurun in Houston. He is the composer of all of the songs in the medley, as well as the medley itself.
The shabat-service-words are just the opposite of the
broadway-entertainment-musical-way.
Respectfully, I find that just as the Catholic liturgy has inspired so much beautiful music over centuries that now are performed on stages as well, there is no reason why the joy expressed in the Shabbat liturgy in new musical interpretations can't follow the same suit and be appreciated by a broader audience. We don't need to be stingy with Shabbat joy :)
Cantor Rachel Goldman ... such outfashioned 60ies musical-style is never „inspiring“. Catholic liturgy is nothing, jews have to match. It is thriving of hatred and incitement against jews - listen once to J.S. Bach or Haendel „Passions“ „ad maiorem dei gloria“, it paved the minds to Holocaust.
@@bell1095 Some could argue that whatever causes a community to be together and create joy is inspiring. Familiar melodies or genres often times help create a connection that would not otherwise exist to words they do not understand in their native tongue to begin with. Chabadniks swing the other direction and just sing niggunim for hours without ANY words as a means of creating communal joy. Let's not be too quick to judge showmanship as negative, as some people would never have prayer experiences at all if it wasn't for adding a little bit to the music sometimes. Does that mean we should just set all the liturgy to Beatles music? No, Kohelet says there is a time and a place for everything. But maybe there is a time for show-y as a means of being more inclusive.
@@bell1095 Unfortunately I didn't understand your point about Catholic liturgy paving mind to the holocaust via a composer's setting it to music....can you elaborate?
Cantor Rachel Goldman ... best recommended to begin understanding the function of music is with platon. Then one might be able to recognise the ugly mess of styles, fashions and flat commercials we are exposed to or we expose others. Invading liturgical texts with such commercials spoils the core of our jewish identity - i have no doubt about it. To preserve the uniqueness and subtle expressions of holyness in words and with niggun or nussach is a category of the ultimate art of cantors. Nothing equals to that unique aestethic. It is spoiled easily and is hard to reestablish later. Not anything goes with jewish liturgy.