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“La Masseria” – Old World Italian good food, hospitality, warm hosts. How many restaurant-owner just hug and kiss you as you walk in the door to come and make music for them? Special place, special people.
R’tzei (Stephen Richards): Beverley Chiat (Live 2013) – Vocal Trio: Thesele Kemane, Katherine Moon, Leanne Jacobson & Albert Combrink (Piano)
(Arranged by Albert Combrink, Sung in Hebrew)
Composed for the Bar Mitzvah os Paul Richards, 1982 held at Temple Beth Israel, Phoenix, Arizona (USA), published 1988
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Filmed Live during the “Rosh Hashanah” service at Temple Israel Reform Synagogue, Greenpoint, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2013
Herbert Fromm (1905– 1995)
Herbert Fromm (1905– 1995) was one of the most prominent, most prolific, and most widely published composers of synagogue and other serious Jewish music among those German- and Austrian-Jewish musicians who found refuge from the Third [read more…]
Beverley Chiat (live 2013)
Vocal Trio: Thesele Kemane, Katherine Moon, Leanne Jacobson & Albert Combrink (Piano)
(Arranged by Albert Combrink, Sung in Hebrew, with a few words changed to follow the exact prayer as it falls in the Prayer Book)
Filmed Live during the “Rosh Hashanah” service at Temple Israel Reform Synagogue, Greenpoint, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2013
Read more about the music HERE: (Includes Hebrew Text, Translations)
Vocal Trio: Thesele Kemane, Beverley Chiat, Katherine Moon, Leanne Jacobson & Albert Combrink (Piano)
(From the Baer Collection, Arranged S. Richards & Albert Combrink, Sung in Hebrew)
Filmed Live during the “Rosh Hashanah” service at Temple Israel Reform Synagogue, Greenpoint, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2013
Kadosh Atah: Text in Hebrew alphabet and transliterated [read more…]
Vocal Trio: Thesele Kemane, Beverley Chiat, Katherine Moon, Leanne Jacobson & Albert Combrink (Piano)
(Arranged by Albert Combrink, Sung in Hebrew)
Filmed Live during the “Yom Kipur” service at Temple Israel Reform Synagogue, Greenpoint, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2013
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Recorded on Yom Kippur 2013
(I apologise in advance if my Hebrew transliteration or translation is not always 100% correct)
Part 1 – Soloist
Eluhenu velohenu avotenu – O God of our Fathers
Tavo le faneche tefilatenu – Let our prayers come before you
Veal titalam mitchinatenu – Hide not thyself from supplication
She en anachnu azefanim – For we are not so arrogant
Ukshe oref – or hardened
Part 2 – Soloist
Lomar le fanecha – That we should not [read more…]
~~”Or Zarua LaTzadik Ul’Yishrei Lev Simcha.”
~~”Light is sown for the righteous, and for the upright of heart, gladness,”
Beverley Chiat (Soprano
Vocal Trio: Thesele Kemane, Beverley Chiat, Katherine Moon, Leanne Jacobson & Albert Combrink (Piano)
(Arranged by Albert Combrink, Sung in Hebrew)
(This setting is an extract from Psalm 97, Verses 11 & 12)
We bless the candles. We wait for the curtains of the Ark to be pulled open to reveal the richly decorated [read more…]
The setting by Ravel is amended to include a few lines he cut from the original prayer, to make it suitable for use in the Synagogue on Kol Nidre. It is also transposed up a Major Third (to the higher key of E Minor – the original key is C minor) The Soprano is facing away from the Camera at this point, as the prayer is sung facing the Ark which contains the Torah Scrolls.
Recorded Live during the “Kol Nidre” service at Temple Israel Reform Synagogue in [read more…]
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